CL back .. at least for a session? that's something to be thankful for.

I have jury duty starting on Monday - now I'm inspired! or intimidated!

After the death saga of the last few months, it's good to have some human observations of life again. Being thrown into contact with such odd creatures as outright criminals and Dick Tracy-jawed prosecutors is refreshing.

I almost want to know more - what did she think of her fellow jurors? She observed the belts of the participants, but not them. (I can almost envision an American Gangster kind of trial, with a charismatic but degenerate black drug dealer proud of his corruption and his gaming of the system, no matter what it did to his soul.)

This is the stuff of life, and I'm glad Ms. Lay has jumped back into it. I'm almost begging for her to describe what her cold or flu experience was like.

they have a certain detached humanity that I find refreshing...

the fantasy stuff is cool too, but the reality distortion is my preference.

plus, I UNDERSTAND it better.

God forbid I ever find myself on the wrong end of the law, I'd want someone like you on my jury, and certainly not my peers. (If my judgement was bad enough to land me in court, why would I want my fate in the hands of those like ME?)

I like your courtroom sketches far better than the ones the media always end up using. You really made me feel for that fish. :-)

Hope you're over whatever got you sent home sick.

~

Love in the Valley.

Sy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow,

Swift as the swallow along the river's light

Circleting the surface to meet `' mirrored winglets.

Fleeter she seems in her stay here in flight.

Shy as the squirrel that leap among the pinetops,

Wayward as the swallow overhead at set of sun,

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,

Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won.-George Meredith. P.S.~It's a 'generic'

love poem. It's far removed from the wilder passions proper to our natural environment. The ways of traditional thinking? What half-tamed barbarians we humans are at our worst and best. I say:`Splendid. `fine stuff' O WayLay. Ya no `stuffed owl'. coo.

Ode to Liberty'. by Shelley. Flowers in the garden today. O coo.

such nice sushi.

shush. silence.

but Shy.

I Sy shush.

WayLay like sushi?

~

What's happening?

But Shy punterjoe.

Punterjoe like Fu-Ki?

It's Japanese plum wine.