“Imagingation is the difference between static and dynamic. Life as it is, and life as it could be. Trust your imagination, work with it, and you’ll find the axis where the line between what’s now and what’s possible converge.”

- W. Kallestead

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I’m fighting off a headache and, having spent all day setting it up, am impatient now with this office and shall remove myself from it shortly. When this tea is gone, think I’ll turn Spinner to the piano channel, slide the volume up, and go curl up on my new Evil Couch to read a little, stretch my body out, stretch my head out. I need an all-over-massage and four new tires.

Now playing: Zhou Long, Dhyana

Buenas noches.

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Ok, so I’m devastated. That camera has been with me through four years and more than 20,000 miles of life. I just sat here and looked at it, turned it over in my hands a few times. Then it got emotional. I wrapped it in its case and put it in an old box in the garage. Came back in and made myself a drink.

Ouch.

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Today, my camera committed suicide on a foot bridge over the Rio Grande.

Moments after its last photo was taken, it leapt from its case and smashed all over the concrete at my feet. I was surprised at how calm I was, there, chasing down the batteries rolling in all different directions. Affixing the damaged battery cover back on the body. Realizing as I was standing there in the wind desperately testing and tinkering with the LCD, the lens, the settings… that it would never take another picture for me.

But I just gathered it all up and walked along. Wondering if I’d at least be able to get my pictures from today downloaded before it threw its last fit of consciousness and eventually ceased to power up altogether. And it did, it gave me that much. But now it’s gone. And I’ve got 5 long days til the new one arrives.

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te·nac·i·ty
That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force.

e·las·tic·i·ty
The property of bodies by which they resume a natural state following deformation.

Orange juice and coffee cake aren’t waking me up, I need a long walk. My sneakers are already sitting on my feet, waiting to be tied.

What’s the relationship between tenacity, and elasticity? Which is stronger? Is tenacity stronger, but more brittle? It takes significant stress to pull the bodies apart, but when they are pulled, stressed, to that degree, they snap. While elasticity is more susceptible to alteration from stress, quicker to lose focus and shape - but less brittle - and therefore more likely to recover?

For most matter, I imagine that the repeated stress of stretching and retracting eventually deteriorates it to the point of breakage. Ever had an old rubber band you went to use, and the moment you attempted to stretch it around something, it snapped and the pieces went flying?

So I don’t know which is better for two bodies to own. The steadfast but brittle quality of tenacity, or the flexible but constantly back-and-forth quality of elasticity. Either breaks, given enough external stress. Though one, when it comes, comes quickly. And the other suffers-and-recovers, but decays over time.

Those are hard choices.

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“I look like a 38 year old with a gland disorder.”

- Ryan, after inspecting himself in the mirror in prep for his Valentine’s Day Dance

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“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn’t want it any other way.”

-George Leonard

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