Today is the welcoming birthday of my new baby niece, Scarlet Begonia Frumess. Born 3/31/05 at 12:28a.m. 7.5#, 19". Tomorrow may be another day but today is wonderful. I’m brimming with joy.

Home of the inimitable Gertrude Stein. I kept thinking of Alice B. Toklas, kept finding myself thinking back to cranberries. The things: the ideas, the people, the numbers and patterns that repeat. You don’t even notice why and then, there again it is. And why?

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went to see Body Works 2 - don’t know if it’s been to NY or not but it’s this display of 200 human bodies & parts that have been preserved in plastic and opened up so you can see isolated systems. it’s pretty gnarly and amazing and upsetting sometimes. was totally loving the experience and talking about health and medicine with people in the crowd when all of a sudden - overwhelmed - just had to leave. this flash came to me from one of the women (bodies) "i didn’t want to do this. not this. this wasn’t by my choice." And then it came, wave waves thoughts overwhelming, that i needed to know how did these people come about? how were they selected? how do we know it’s by choice?  it’s just a body - the flesh and the bones and the sinew. but the feelings were too strong. i don’t, i can’t recommend the exhibit. and yet, yes it’s amazing and worth seeking & knowing what the ins of us are. this is such a great opportunity most of us never get to see what we really look like so that’s great and yes we should want to know but i couldn’t stand it. we had to go.

Every day there’s a new inspiration and a reason to work harder on the blog. Todays? The Photobloggies.

Four more days to vote for the best photoblog in the United States, Canada, Latin America, etc. Well worth the time spent just flipping through pictures. Gorgeous gorgeous pictures. The above is from Durham Township.

PS. I highly support "thesuperherojournal" and recommend you vote for her if you don’t have a personal preference.

New data has arisen to buttress the arguments against genetic engineering: Scientists have found that some plants can fix genetic mutations in their DNA presuming the "healthy" form was in their ancestry. Genetic engineering has always seemed to me to be the science of Richard Scarry’s Mr. Fix-it: the well intentioned klutz.