Got another sick headache, so no pictures today or walks for that matter. I blame the pollen in the air. I've been congested all week long, and this weekend, on the verge of nauseous vertigo headaches. Verge - being, I can feel the fullness in the airs, that my digestive system is off, that a headache is lurking, and my balance seems off. In short, a vegging day.
TelevisionI've watched three episodes of
The Nevers on HBO Max, and one episode of
Shadow and Bone on Netflix. I like
Shadow and Bone better.
Why?
( Read more... )I'll watch both of course.
Still watching
This is Us - although, I'm not entirely sure about how they are handling the Randall storyline. And, still watching the 9-1-1 procedurals - which I enjoy, I like the characters, and find them comforting.
Completed
Great Pottery Throwdown - S4, is better than S3 (which isn't hard to do) but not as good at the first two seasons. Also, I think the themes are kind of cheesy. But that's just me. It is still comforting though. Just kind of odd in how it turned out. Felt contrived.
Falcon and the Winter Solider - the final episode did a good job of wrapping up various character arcs. But, I'm kind of...annoyed by what they chose to do with Sharon Carter. It felt almost against the grain of her character. Her character seems to do a 180 from Civil War to now. Making me think that maybe she did survive the blip and was none too happy about it?
( spoilers )Outside of what they did with Sharon Carter, I rather enjoyed the six episode mini-series. They delved deeply into Bucky and Sam's characters and slowly built their relationship with each other. While at the same time, covering the complex social issues of racism and immigration or being transplanted, without going overboard or getting preachy.
Other Stuff* Watched two live-streaming Unitarian Universalist services. The first was a tad more intellectual than the second. The second had more music though.
The first had a beautiful song in Chinese about the Yangstee River. What I found interesting though - was a clarification of what it means to be religious, and what it means to be spiritual.
Religious is basically being spiritual with a community, or practicing a spiritual ritual with others. While spiritual is doing it just with oneself.
We=religious=covenant, while Me=spiritual=covenant.
The description made a lot of sense to me at any rate.
* Mother continues to chat with various family members. While my brother has visited with friends, as has his daughter. It appears I'm the only one in my family that continue to be somewhat isolated. It's mainly because I'm a bit of a loner and have phone phobia.
Mother was complaining about a cousin-in-law who teases people. She went on about how he was teasing on of his kids. I asked her, finally, if she'd ever met my brother - who is the same.
*On Kensington FB page we were all mourning the loss of the pretty trees in our area. Including these:
Which are now - these:
Or as I pointed out in a comment to the post - that I was still mourning the loss of the beautiful magnolia tree that the nitwity residents chopped down in favor of a concrete sidewalk like patio and astro turf under their trampoline.
This infuriates me. But alas nothing I can do. Will state - that in New York State - if you chop down any trees on public land, you have to plant ten new ones for each tree removed. I found this out about ten years ago, when we had to replace about five trees in a park, after they had to be removed for a railroad remedial excavation. The NYSDEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New Parks Department require ten trees for each tree removed.) Huzzah! I wish property owners had the same penalty imposed. You remove a tree from your property? Ten trees donated to the city.
A pretty house is one with trees. An ugly house is one without them. Unless of course you live in the desert, in which case...
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