Capricorn is usually depicted as a goat with a fish's tail for his hindquarters. It seems to date from Sumerian (pre-Babylonian) times and is connected with the god Ea or Oannes. Ea had many names, some of them were "the God of Wisdom" and "the Antelope of the Subterranean Ocean." Ea lived deep in the ocean as a fish but when he appeared among men he took the form of a man with a fish-tailed cloak. He taught men to write and build cities, compile laws and other sciences and arts, as well as how to collect seed and fruits for cultivation. (www.stargazers.iinet.net.au/ capricorn.htm)
Thoughts moving slow as molasses on a Thoms Creek day in January. Moving through days now so automatically, so fluidly, I don't even ripple the air. This is the fish half of the Capricorn goat. (Or else the sea turtle staying well below the surface of things.) I'm making a little headway in the greenhouse. Have begun going through all my stuff, deciding what stays, what goes. Filling the bed of the pickup for the next run to the dump &/or thrift stores. Getting smaller and smaller. Just because life is all Waiting these days, it doesn't mean I have to be altogether still while I wait. I started reading a novel in the evenings, which usually I avoid doing, because I accomplish nothing when I'm caught up in a story. New York Trilogy. I'm a little late to these things. Like it very much.
I did put up six half-pints of apple butter finally, on Sunday. But like the little wildish apples it's made from, it has little flavor and is too sweet. I'll send you some, anyway, Dana, if you want a souvenir of 2004. Next cookie disbursal is Monday the 24th.
I think my father's birthday is tomorrow. I'm not sure. If it isn't then it has just passed. A little commentary on Daddy George should do nicely for tomorrow, then. Ah, a goal.
4:12:28 PM 
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