stag nation

i just now finished the spanbauer book (see my sidebar 'read'). i don't read a lot of authors, but this man has to me unprecedented statement of ideas of being. i have got to get to new sweden tomorrow, to the center of forgotten. tickets to copenhagen almost exactly what i thought they'd be. this needs to happen soon before it gets all last minute, roves of humans panicky like. i went by the park today and there were kite katastrophes left and right. all kinds up in trees still naked from winter. they need me to get them down! i'll climb up there and shake them out. detritus of fragility celebration - the weather, the mood, the people, the timing.

i saw balinese wayang - shadow puppet theatre last weekend at UT. small gamelan of three players. one could get quite involved in it, the trips to indonesia, the constuction of puppets, learning language and mastery of new instruments. the screen was lit with a lamp made from clay and fueled with coconut oil - how great is that?