what the street says to the wheels or the path to the feet that tread it

[asakiyume]

I was saying to malorys_camera that a switch has flipped in my brain and now I'm tired of thinking about COVID 19. The other day I went several tens of minutes without thinking about it at all, and that was great! (Don't mistake me; I'm not saying that it's not serious--not saying that at all--I'm just saying that having my thoughts chained to it feels like being Alex in Clockwork Orange when he's got his eyes stuck open and is being force-fed Beethoven's Ninth. You could be exhausted by something as lovely as Beethoven's Ninth if the circumstances were right, and let's be real: COVID 19 is not that lovely.)

So for a change of scene, let me show you the Hardware of the Street which I discovered. I mean! Programming for a whole street! Admittedly a street in a housing development in western Massachusetts, so like, not the most crucial of streets. But just imagine what directives and protocols it might hold. What if roads communicated up to the things that pass along them?



And speaking of, you'll enjoy a year's worth of animals passing over this natural bridge (condensed into five minutes--try watching just one! You'll be hooked), if you haven't already encountered it on your social media feeds. You'll be surprised at the variety of animals using it--fun to see the river in different states, as well.

Comments

[asakiyume]

I'm glad it hadn't been obvious! And maybe my own degree of mind-binded-ness wasn't as much as other peoples'; it just felt like a lot to me. I feel less mentally trapped now, for whatever reason.

I can understand how you could get that way with the primaries, too. I was thinking of making a covid-19 cake... maybe you could make a primary cake? (Forgive me if this suggestion sounds too flippant or frivolous or other negative f word--fatuous, maybe?--it's my evil nature to cake-ify things.)

[amaebi]

A theme cake seems to me like extremely sound ritual.