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Work was absolutely butt-kicking today, and I'm behind on sleep, so here's Arial again.

I have some concept photos I really want to do, but also some writing I absolutely need to do, so I don't know how soon I'll be doing some new stuff. There's so little time. I think I'll win the lottery this weekend and take it a little easier.

I have returned from Paradise.

My sister is my mother's caregiver and she needed some time away, so I took some vacation time and went down to spend time with the maternal unit while my big sis soaked in Hawaiian hedonism.

She more than deserved the break. If there's a heaven and people have to earn it, she's a shoe-in. I respect and admire her, and her humanity, more than she knows, because I absolutely suck at giving compliments.

Which is why I probably deflect them when they're directed at me. I think the two are related, but I've just spent twelve hours in airports and airplanes to get too contemplative.

It was good to see my Ma, but it brings up all kinds of stuff that you won't hear about in any detail here. At least not yet.

But hey, all the airline-ing and flying gave me the chance to read a Kurt Vonnegut novel I hadn't read since the 80s. It's good to rediscover an old favorite master.

And damn! It's good to post a photo again, even if it's and old one and I don't even know where it was taken. I'm missing photography and need to whip up something really cool pretty soon.

The writing went pretty well. Didn't accomplish as much as I'd hoped but made some serious strides.

OK, I think I need to become comatose for a while now. I'm about as tired as a political platitude near the end of an election.

This is probably the last thing I'll post for a few weeks or more. I'll be leaving town this weekend and won't be back 'til after the 20th. I'll hopefully be in touch by email still, so I might do some commenting, but I'm not taking my camera, so there'll be no photo posting. I'd rather take books this time, and do some reading. Photography interests me as much right now as getting my teeth flossed with a chainsaw.

Ya'll be well. May the sun shine only for you and bask you in its radiant magnificence. Should I not return for some unforeseen reason, know that you have all had a positive impact on my life and I am eternally grateful. This goes for my Flickr friends, and non-Flickr friends. And please remember, it's the respect and kindness you show each other that differentiates us from the beasts. If you have no time for kindness, patience, empathy and understanding, you might as well be eating your own crap in some crummy zoo.

I have always lived in my head far more than I have ever lived in this world, and you all help keep me grounded. Thank you.

Do we really deserve these people, these bleating clowns, these corrupt pawns of even more corrupt money?

Government by the people, for the people? Give me a break.