This May Come as Some Surprise, but the Savers in Sioux Falls Has the Best Piped-in Music

People that come together/
and people that fall apart
Nothing can stop us now/
cuz we are all made of stars

One of my strange ambitions.....

I have a certain fondness for the mule. Here are 2 that are really like. The top picture is of Elsie Gundo, she lives in Texas. I love her sturdy shape and huge head. The other mule is Magpie, she lives in Florida. She has an adorable burro-y look.

wranglin' advice

and so go around treating the most trivial matters with the upmost of care and concern, and the matters of great importance with none.

Saturn + Venus = Time to Get Real, Girl

(October 13, 2009) - Now, typically I ain't one to adhere to astrology, but I can enjoy arbitrarily defining life's more miasmic moments and challenging aeons using the same astronomical tools as the next ancient Babylonian, Roman, Mayan, or what-have-you guy.

And so it is interesting to me that the two planets, Saturn and Venus, will appear only a half degree apart in an early Tuesday morning sky come mid-October. So, in addition to offering the exquisitive and graceful view afforded by conjunctions of sharp, bright, relatively close objets d'celeste, it may even be useful to note that Saturn is associated in astrology with the principles of limitation, restrictions, boundaries, practicality and reality, crystallizing and structures. Saturn governs ambition, career, authority and hierarchy, and conforming social structures. It concerns a person's sense of duty, discipline and responsibility, and their physical and emotional endurance during hardships. Saturn is also considered to represent the part of a person concerned with long-term planning. "The Return of Saturn" is said to mark significant events in one's life.

Of course, you already knew that Venus is connected variously to love, romance, fertility, and the personification of womanhood. And "love" or "fertility" do not necessarily have fixed definition. Also, Venus is known as the bearer of light and the bringer of darkness, the latter of which can be translated into the Latin as "Lucifer" -- ya know, the one what got cast out of them thar' heavens? Ishtar, Isis, or Aphrodite -- regardless of which traditional lore one may decide to attach to the planet, to consider its conflux with Saturn with all of its connotations can be an exercise in identifying one's own power to decide to begin or end (or to make the decision to postpone decision-making) one's relationships with the Nouns of Life, ie, people, places, things, or ideas.