…there’s not going to be any edge-finishing activity tonight.

Because, silly, it would require IRONING!

**shakes head and wanders off for yet another cool beverage.**

I rather melted into bed last night, rung out from the day and the heat and the inability of anything to hold my interest. I managed to finish and upload my course essay.

Today when I awoke, the heat was already thick and heavy. If I had more motivation I’d head out looking for some air-conditioned culture but instead I packed an insulated bag with frozen water bottle, cold beverage and headed upstairs. I suppose I could fiddle with the quilt edges but instead I might just poke around and listen to the beginning of Frankenstein.

threw rock into puddle
watched the ripples push the edge
stirring up bottom.

Alice big and small
grow up shrink down be adult
even if just a girl

Disappearing smile
the mysterious cat grins
there, then gone again.

Tweedle dee and dum
three dittos and a long verse
of cabbages and kings

In Alice in Wonderland, simple dichotomies of childhood are shown from many angles: big and small, young and old, sense and nonsense.

…for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!’

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Someone on the Coursera discussion board posted (in a “chill out” sort of thread because there’s been a lot of drama LOL):

I think kids these days call threads like “I’m going to drop this course because…” or “I’m leaving because …” “Flouncing“. ;)