reduction

i've had to trim my reading list. i tried for a while to use filters for reading actual people (instead of communities and rss feeds which have always been on filters), and it ended up with me feeling out of touch anyway after a while, and rightly so, because some filters would languish. so, i decided that i would read everyone on my flist every day, and not have hidden filters for people i put temporarily on hiatus, or whose posting annoys or depresses me at the time. i like that better anyway; that way people know that i actually keep up with what's happening to them, and interest myself in their lives. however, that means that i need to make the list manageable, or i end up not getting through it. and lately i've not been getting through it very well.

i'm hoping that this won't hurt anyone's feelings. it's not been a terribly personal choice, not in the sense that i now can't stand somebody i once liked enough to add to the list. it's a wee bit personal in the sense of the level of connection existing between us; if we hardly ever talk to each other about anything of substance, and i don't perceive a strong wish in either of us to change that, then i've let it go for now. should you feel differently, i don't post anything locked (except for my partners), i don't restrict commenting, and you can write up a storm. :)

*urk*. apologies if it does hurt somebody. i just don't have the energy i once had.

coniglio gigante

maybe i am easily amused today, but this has me in stitches:

The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.

The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput.

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the little black cat

finally got a picture of her.

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