This is dedicated to me for working on my 34th draft of a Light Bridge entry — the 3rd draft of Cancer — tonight. Stay tuned — final drafts on just three more signs to go.
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lol…I actually can’t sit through the video. I still have a “gonna throw up now” Pavlov’s Dog reaction to Sesame Street. Watched those vids with my daughter when I was pregnant with my son during which time I was nauseous ….all 9 months….
But it was great prior to that…..!!
Being an Earth Dog, I choose Collie. (The dogs of my childhood).
They haven’t been popular for a long time. But they are GREAT dogs.
Eric, lord knows somebody’s gotta do it.
Amanda, it’s all about what kind of dogs you know…
My favorite other breeds are all smallish work dogs — Aussies for example, blue heelers, those kinds of kids. For little dogs, I think Shitzus are fun, I like their mentality a lot. Not exactly a work dog though.
sam — i’m just sittin’ here laughin’. so glad someone commenting here has had herding conversations.
Thank you thank you Eric, for your attention to your craft and your dedication. Love the video, still singing the song.
Activist/op Alert! But first, agreed, Amanda. Brilliant stuff and it’s amazing how many of us remember these treasured snips from kids programming, decades later.
Sadly, the GOP does NOT love Sesame Street because, once again, it wants to eliminate funding … this time ALL of it … to both PBS and NPR. In Dubby’s time, we called this the Big Bird Assault. Public service media is in trouble again because if it has the word “public” in it, the Right’s got it in their crosshairs. Credo is collecting signatures, here:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_defund_npr/?r_by=16482-2950659-gVVkpOx&rc=paste2
I’m a North American Pussy Hound.
Also another friend once told me there are two kinds of people: those who are suited to herding cows/yaks and those who are suited to herding goats/sheep. I guess goats are always getting away so you can never get a moments rest, whereas yaks are more docile. He said his father is a goat man while he himself was more of a yak guy. Guys who herd horses, on the other hand, are macho, always shooting their guns off for no reason. So Eric, which kind of dog are you?
Damn, this brings back memories.
Also today I was having coffee with a friend who was born in the year of the Goat, while his wife is a Dog. We were talking about what it means to be a herd animal married to an animal that chases your ass down when you step out of line…
Hang in there Eric, ya hard workin’ dawg! Or are you like the little red engine that could? (“I-think-can, I-think-I-can…” and he kept trying and trying, and finally, he made it over the hill and could see down the other side!”)
:o) Indrani
PS: Luuurve Sesame Street – one of the most intelligent programmes to ever hit television!
I loved this — to all you hard workin’ PW dogs, thank u!
Eric, I’m delighted to hear that you’re finding your way to stay healthy while immersed in this huge project and at the same time covering the extraordinary events of our time. You’re a good role model in yet another way. 🙂
I am always in favor of work being delayed in order for the workers to proceed at a humane pace. Speaking as a customer. While I jumped on purchasing Light Bridge when the for sale sign first got hung on the door, I also have been deeply appreciative of the journalism here and in particular the coverage of breaking events. Just today, with all the back and forth we had with Mubarak, I was discovering and telling a friend that this is the only place that seemed to be really keeping up with the pace of events. Well, I know that’s not totally true, but keeping up with it while also keeping a view to its development history and all that other stuff…. Anyway, it was here I got the latest of the latest today.
so, thank you for being willing to bridge that huge span, between the oh-so-close-together personal and political poles of our world.
😀
PW is a cool thing to be a part of on any level and I’m grateful for it.
As I go back through the signs the last time, I am casting one last chart, which is the planets at the solar ingress in that sign, i.e., everything in Pisces when the Sun ingresses Pisces (using Serennu).
By the third draft I am barely using charts. I am just putting tracking each outer planet transit through the houses and playing them off of one another. Pluto in Capricorn + Chiron in Pisces is starting to make a lot of sense. Uranus in Aries + Chiron in Pisces is starting to make a lot of sense. Uranus in Aries + Pluto in Capricorn is starting to make a lot of sense.
There appears to be a lot of legacy material left behind from Saturn square Pluto, with both planets in Saturn-resonant signs.
Eris is lurking in the background. Saturn is going to oppose Eris after this retrograde ends, which begins to connect the identity anarchy of our era with the need for authentic relationships.
In all we could be doing a lot worse going into 2012. The astrology is powerfully focused on self-awareness, like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
Once I go to the last draft I check back over the charts visually; and the audio will be done right off of the charts I cast in Serennu — the minor stuff, to shift the viewpoint entirely.
Eric,
Thank you. i love you. Appreciation for your efforts may never equal the immensity of the task, but please accept our affections and gratitude such as they are.
Thank you especially for the insight into your two-chart method. Will contemplate that one for a while.
Well, the work could use another month of editing. Which is always true.
To my customers of this project — thank you for your patience and the space to go at my own speed on this, which is based entirely on my other writing schedule. The news the past three months has been extraordinary and I have not left my post as a journalist in that time. But what I have also not done is work myself into illness as happened two years, or sustained an injury in the midst of the annual as happened two years.
As I’ve been working through these essays, each coming in at about 5,500 words per sign (the original plan was shorter sign essays + audio, but that didn’t work out; the signs always take on a life of their own and go to their own length) , I am redesigning how I do the annual project, which includes getting an understanding of how I construct these interpretations, each from two charts (solar ingress for that sign, and solar ingress minor planets on a 90-degree sort; the audio is based on the minor planets). Each essay goes through three or four drafts.
I am likely to be out of the writing by Sunday. Then my editors have to go through the work — Amanda has already started, and Jessica starts tomorrow night — and we begin placing charts and art in the essays on Sunday.
It’s been a long trip. I’ve managed to get to the gym a couple of days a week this year, and though I’m pretty tired I’m feeling good.
Yeah hard workin’ Eric, rounding up those drafts and shepherding them into the pen, woof woof! Yay.
Well done on nearing completion of Light Bridge. I suspect we are all very happy for you to be seeing the end of the project come up on the horizon *and* for it to be appearing in our mailboxes very soon 😉
“you can see i’m not a frog”
“all i know how to do is take 100 cows and teach ’em some manners”
still cracking me up, 36 years later…
Woo hoo! You go, Eric. I hope you’re having at least as much fun as that dog.
i love youtube and whoever put this up there for those of us who never forgot the song. i was singing it to eric on the phone tonight….. i really think sesame street of the 70s and 80s was one of the most amazing things for kids ever.