Lexy has a brand new, shiny white, glow in the dark... cast! He scaled the heights of a tall fence at school and plummeted to the ground, cracking that little knob of bone at the end of the humerus. In the x-ray, it appears to be hanging off. He has also lost two baby teeth (not related to the fall). One of them is really lost, and may have been swallowed. The other one is in the hands of the Tooth Fairy. Jen commented that he's falling apart.

I saw a beautiful sunset today, in a strange sort of way. Inside the museum, we have an exhibit where kids can manipulate a roof-mounted camera and watch the results on a TV monitor. As I walked past the exhibit at closing time, the monitor displayed a brilliant, orange and red sunset. The only problem is that the camera was pointing east, so the sunset it was picking up was a mere reflection, broken into squares by the windows of the large office building across the river. As I looked at this image, I thought that it was a good metaphor for how many of us live our lives. Many things we experience are filtered and packaged. Information is interpreted (reflected) for us and broadcast into our homes. As anybody who has been part of something that makes the news can tell you, the information is nearly always distorted. Pure information doesn't always further the aims of the people providing it, so the news is squeezed to fit into the appropriate box. A case in point would be a protest against the Gulf war that I took part in. The news stations and papers seriously under-reported the number of people protesting. An illusion must be created that nearly everybody is in line behind the government as it rolls out its tanks and planes. Too many protesters could cause embarassment, a fact which we should take to heart in the coming months.
When I finally made it outside, the orange and red had leaked out of the clouds, leaving only grey silhouettes.

cds I listened to while experiencing life first-hand: Low "Trust", Holocaust "The Nightcomers", irr.app.(ext.) "ozeanische gefuhle" and "inception and silence undivided", and Black Heart Procession "Amore del Tropico"

now: Popol Vuh "Tantric Songs/Hosianna Mantra"