everyone here gets caught up in the pleasure and the pain, everyone hides shades of shame

June 20: doctrinaire

A couple of my academic friends tend toward gratingly pompous theorizing and doctrinaire monologues, which is just one of the reasons that I often gravitate toward my more practical, down-to-earth friends after spending lots of time in their presence.

 

It's been a long damned week, and it's only Wednesday. Entertain yourselves with song that's been churning through my brain for the past several days, and some recent photos of my closest companions.

"Back 2 Good" by Matchbox 20

African violets (with a cactus, a couple of philodendrons, and a lily of some sort in the background), blooming away. The one in the center has been blooming nonstop for a year, and changes color from pure white to nearly magenta.

African violet, adopted at the same time as the white-to-magenta variety. This one is always a bright burgundy color.

Hoya carnosa. Mine has never flowered before, but that tiny clump right above the set of leaves is a bloom-to-be!

Hoya bud from another angle. Yay!

 

[the title quotation is from "Back 2 Good" by Matchbox 20]