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What happened to May 5? Oh, yeah, that’s right – I was unconscious most of the day, and in the bathroom when I wasn’t. Lucky for you that’s all the detail I’m going into here about THAT. 😉 I’m feeling better today though. Good thing to, because a BAT decided to follow John back into the house in the wee hours of the morning when he was coming back from taking the dogs out. Yesterday, I was so weak I could barely stand, but today I’m at LEAST strong enough to stand around for an hour with a broom and the doors and windows wide open, trying to get the silly bat out of the house!

The Ted Andrews book on Animal Symbols says that the bat is a symbol of change and initiation, of letting go of the old parts that no longer fit. Very similar to my little physical challenge as well. (sorry – LOL) It’s also about facing your fears – and I guess you could say that one of my fears is that nothing will EVER change, or that it will change in only a side path, and not “forward” as I see it. Time to get rid of THAT little ditty – replace it with another thought that I like better. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Odd things stand out. Yesterday, at the side of the road in tall grass – a hawk rides the winds to hover in place a foot above the grass, while 10-12 red winged black birds hover and dart all around the hawk, all within a few feet of space. Today, a kestrel loudly claws and scrambles across our tin roof trying to grab a small finch or chickadee out of the group or birds that hang out under the eaves. Later, a helicopter flies so close that the echoing chop of its beating rotors rattles the aging windows in our house and suddenly the sound is just GONE as if it never was to begin with.

I’ve sent this around in email form a few years ago, but since a URL has just popped up for it, I’ll post a link here. Warning – do NOT click on the link if you are easily grossed out and don’t like or get dogs or natural dog behaviors – otherwise you’ll probably find this really really funny. *grin* Presenting, Dogs in Elk. (Thanks for the link find, memepool.)

Huh! An interesting article – Forbes response to Cheney’s comments about “energy”. I like it! 🙂

Some weeks ago, a friend and I were having a discussion about how trends work their way into mass culture. She had been considering me at the front of the movement, but used the term “early adopter”, which is a popular buzzword these days. I never thought of myself as an early adopter, since to me, instead of being on the front, that seemed to me to be further back in line. In front, seemed to be those people who were out there CREATING (naturally, that’s what I believe MYSELF to be – LOL). People who were just listening to their inner creative voice and giving it expression, without much positive support or feedback from society at large. THEN came the people that adopted the new ideas or technologies (that have been created) early. It all has to come from SOMEWHERE – heh heh.

Well, recently I ran across this article about marketing and teens and trends. The article itself was pretty basic, but had one especially terrific paragraph which mirrored by friend’s and my conversation:

“…Actually it’s a triangle. At the top of the triangle there’s the innovator, which is like two to three percent of the population. Underneath them is the trend-setter, which we would say is about 17 percent. And what they do is they pick up on ideas that the innovators are doing and they kind of claim them as their own. Underneath them is an early adopter, which is questionable exactly what their percentage is, but they kind of are the layer above mainstream, which is about 80 percent. And what they do is they take what the trend-setter is doing and they make it palatable for mass consumption. They take it, they tweak it, they make it more acceptable, and that’s when the mass consumer picks up on it and runs with it and then it actually kills it.”