tech help

today HOM and i are haunted by an old chinese melody that we both recognize and that we both cannot identify and that shazam gives up at as well. but the google app allows me to hum the melody and ta-dah! the song is 母亲你在何方. how we ever did things before the modern age i do not know. 

good evening

red sky at night, shepherd's delight

looks like the portents are for another hottt day tomorrow.

at least it's pretty.

woman in a hat

starting my most ambitious project yet and breaking new ground with silk thread on a ginormous piece of aida. for which pre-printed and pre-gridded are pretty much non-negotiables these days.

resurrected

nine months later the case is finally settled and the stop work order is lifted and we are looking to renewed efforts in the new week.

HOM and i are amazed humbled and grateful for the manifold mercies that lead to this. at the same time unfortunately the old stresses of hustling the various players also self-resurrect. 

but if God can lead us thru the one surely he can lead us thru the other. exodus 14:14, isaiah 43:2, psalm 31:15. all OT verses. there is a pattern here.

the murder room - michael capuzzo (2010)

the story of how the vidocq society comes about interwoven with the key cold cases they crack over the years and run through with the lives of the main players.

the story takes a bit of time to come together possibly due to writing style. the cases are sometimes riveting and sometimes a bit befuddling. the lives are interesting enough but unavoidably unidimensional.

it all becomes a trifle ponderous and i am relieved to speed read to the end and be done with it. what i need is incisive prose and an unbeatable plot. that, or lyrical prose and homey story. i feel like i am thinking bonhoeffer or a modern asian writer.

faith of our fathers

faith of our fathers, living still
in spite of dungeon, fire and sword

the speaker chooses this for the response today following a sermon on the fifth commandment. with all respect and even though i am fond of its soaring melodies it is a rather odd choice. a congregation of first and second generation believers mixes poorly with a song of catholic martyrs indeed.

alice and gerald - ron franscell (2019)

yikes.

woman kills her third husband marries her fourth who kills his second wife and his adopted sons then woman and man live happily for almost 40 years after that. oh oh maybe woman kills second husband too.

most ghoulishly unpleasant story of the couple that got away.

yikes.