I've been reading a book,
In Search of P. D. Ouspensky, that I found when I wandered into a used bookstore while Vivi did some shopping at Big Lots. Pure serendipity. It gives such a different view of
Gurdjieff and
Ouspensky than you'll find anywhere else - really interesting. It takes the book a while to get going, but when it does, it's like an Entertainment Tonight episode about the world of early 20th century esoterica and occultism.
Having belonged, for a short time, in a group of The Work here in Rochester, I found it interesting to read this book by someone else who also took part in a similar group for a time, and who apparently came to some similar conclusions about it. It's very hard to explain Gurdjieff's ideas to most people - it seems to be something that either resonates with one or doesn't. And most people don't seem to take kindly to being told that they are "mere machines" :-)
Vivi and I saw
Hitchhiker's Guide ... on Tuesday. I didn't think too much of it. Vivi enjoyed it some. In the end, it was a lot like the book (surprise!) and therefore pretty juvenile and really not all that funny. Sad to say, I just haven't been enjoying movies much anymore.
Sideways was the last movie I really liked, and before that I can't even remember.
Vivi is enjoying bird watching lately. She keeps the bird feeders up to date, and we've seen lots of cardinals, finches, two varieties of woodpeckers (they eat seeds too apparently), robins, sparrows, squirrels, and doves. Once she saw 5 cardinals all together under a feeder. This is why I have so much ambivalence about clearing the brush from the back of my yard - I figure all that dense brush/woods is one of the reasons why we get so many interesting birds.
Now all I need is a bat house and get a big family of them to move in.
I've had no caffeine in 5 days. So far so good, let's hope I can keep it up.
