Passing by the halltree at the Heron the other day, I realized I was looking at a JazzFest history. Each year I plan to wear a simple visor, and each year I seem to get there and buy a new hat. Here they are labeled by year. They are also good for Farmer's Market. Speaking of which, Sister Bernadette went to bread school during the winter and the product is greatly improved. She makes a diet-destroying brioche loaf and a brioche roll filled with red bean paste. That, Peter Curra's asparagus and fiddleheads, and Molly's humus and you've got the perfect spring meal. Bought a used lawnmower from Bryan Dimick on Market Day. Visiting nieces/nephews will be happy to hear it's one of those self-propelled jobs. Bryan and I had one of those conversations that consist mostly of an exchange of acronyms about what the companies we work for do (mine does Oracle, his doesn't), and the following week VPs of our respective companies met to discuss a joint venture. Farmers Market is about vegetables and networking. 
We're getting our gardens in at the Heron and the lake and enjoying the lush green everywhere. Still in black fly season, Melissa completes her gardening ensemble with a fly hat and a Rolling Rock. Today is Memorial Day and we have the bunting up and watched a tiny parade from the front porch. Check out UnityMaine.org to see what's happening in town. Next thing at the theater is a performance of the Mozart Requiem on Sunday. No, Mozart is not staying at the B&B. He must be staying in Waterville. Who'da picked him for a motel kind of guy.
 I've just finished the Leonard Shlain book The Alphabet Versus The Goddess, which is a real vision changer. It takes a complete tour of history from the perspective of his thesis which is that the initial arrival of widespread alphabetic literacy in a culture turns it into a nasty misogynistic, image-hating patriarchy. He doesn't spare the horrific details. The last few chapters show how the return of image based communication--photography, movies, tv--has reprogrammed the brain in the other direction and has led to greater equality between the sexes. Many small details were right on: "Computer-literates use a hand-eye coordination more spatial than linear: the mouse scurries across the corpus callosum, and invites right-brain pattern skills to participate in the maneuvers necessary to generate the written word."
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