egg rehatched

After several days attempting to morph into a gorgeous patch of lichen (with an almost desperate form of anxiety on the end result of me = lichen), I remain human.

Damn.


The levels of exhaustion I've been feeling this summer have been at an all-time high. Low? Either way, I'm tired. My arms are nearly always shaking. My neck feels funny-bone tired, as if keeping my enormous head upright were a job for Atlas, not for me. My eyeballs want me to turn them off. I'm sick of the daily combat with incorrigibility and psychosis (neither necessarily my own) and fixing things with paperwork I cannot locate. I would crawl under a rock if I could do that, surrounded by the cool soil and tickled by the occasional wayward worm or beetle. Not dead yet! I would muse, and shuttle them to the other side of me.

So now what? NOW WHAT?


I'll tell you what.
The ultimate destroyer of time and space... the drainer of mental excess and excuses... the exit door from self-pity and the entryway of confounded escape!

Puzzles.


That's right. I'm so far gone, I've decided to start making puzzles again.

There goes the neighborhood.



I think I'm going to make it a little different from the way it used to be. I am going to try the following:

• find a quote/phrase/saying of interest
• turn it into a series of phonetic blocks that can be represented with images in some way
• present the series of images for you to look at, and for you to try to figure out what on earth I was focusing on
• a possible clue to help you narrow it down

I once made these puzzles weekly, for just one word at a time. Now I'm trying it out for an entire phrase/quote/saying. Deal with it.



You can also expect a return of the weekly "inkblots" to surface. And why the hell not. I may not have a very good camera anymore, but I should still be able to get images edited.

As always, these are more exercises for my mind than they are for yours. But if other people get something out of it, that makes it even sweeter.


First puzzle should be up this evening. Answers will be posted with the pictures for the next one, probably in a week.



You will get no apologies from me on this one. The ball is rolling.