Sunday, September 20, 2020

Tech, Family, House, Blogger, Omen

 Fiorella is getting some snide remarks about her attack on technology, but don't people see what is happening? Our originality--the very thing that keeps us from being machines--is, bit by bit, being squeezed out of us as we are forced into prefabricated decisions.

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Your girl spent the morning packing moving boxes and preparing for the arrival of Minnesota son and his wife, who have kindly volunteered to help Fio get the house ready to sell. Yep, the bare bones are beginning to show.

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Fiorella knows that selling the house is the right thing to do, but she resents it taking up all her time. and energy. All she does is repair, clean, and pack, and what she wants to do is paint, read, write, compose, learn languages, and make the world a better place.

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Why is it that Blogger chose to minimalize itself rather than add new features? 

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Fio was caught off-guard by the death of Ruth Baden Ginsburg. She wept until she was exhausted, then wandered over to the jigsaw puzzle spread out on a kitchen counter, looked down at the pieces, and--without even thinking--put three of them in their proper places. 

A chill swept through her. She knows what she has to do now.

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