This week's Free Will Astrology

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
A disease has been ravaging the oak trees where I live. One of my favorite hiking trails takes me past a hard-hit area. While a number of the trees in this graveyard are clearly deceased, there are a few in a curious limbo state. At the ends of large rotting branches, straggling bits of green sprout here and there amidst the mostly withered husks of leaves. I wonder if this might serve as a metaphor for the dead part of your life, Libra? Are you being fooled into holding on to false hope by a last-gasp of feeble growth? I suggest it's time to accept the truth.


Denial? Me?

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The Edward Gorey Museum opens: yet another reason for me to get to the Boston area. (I know, it's not in Boston, more like a nice day trip or something.)

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Woke up to the sound from a neighbor's TV- apparently at one of the televised memorial services they were doing the two-trumpet echoing version of Taps. That would have been fine- it's pretty good done well (used to play trumpet and did that one a few times), but the second, echoing trumpet was horribly, horribly flat in comparison to the first. By the end, I was leaping out of bed with my teeth aching from the dissonance.

What a lousy, embarrassing time to not have tuned up together!


Otherwise, I did a fairly good job of staying away from the hype and hoopla today. Tried to get some work done, went down to work out, things like that. Couldn't help but notice the silence outside; living under an incoming flight path for MSP, I'm used to planes going over every few minutes. Today there were only a few. As in 3-4 total, all day.

It's eerie.

While getting some dinner together I was flipping channels (trying to avoid the clips of collapsing towers) and came across Desk Set on one of the old movie channels (AMC, TCM, something like that), so that set me up for a while. Always have liked that one!

It was followed by Bringing Up Baby, of which I'd only seen bits and pieces; it was nice to be able to watch it all the way through. One of the best of the screwy sorts of comedies.

My Amazon order came the other day, so I now have a copy of The Lion In Winter. Trying to decide if I'll pop that in yet tonight, too, and just have a Katharine Hepburn movie marathon evening. Then again, it's got a 2:15 run time, so maybe I'll wait until tomorrow.