bill_schubert | Slowly fixing my environment

But for the small stuff I'm pretty much done with my office. The rest will be the usual battling entropy. I moved around some of the pictures and added a couple. What the desk wall looks like:

The lovely couple over the door are my great grandparents on my father's side. Prussian soldier and wife. Reminds me of Crosby's 'Triad'

Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder
Got a face like ice, just a little colder
Saying, "You cannot do that, it breaks all the rules
You learned in schools"

The reverse wall is my quiet chair, the place I typically use to meditate:

At some point when I first set up our retail space for Friendly Computers I ran across this neon monkey. It was in the store window and then in my office window and now on the wall behind my chair. When he first met my mom at an age when he could barely talk he called her Monkey. And, of course, the way things went she was Monkey for the rest of her life and has watched over me and now meditates with me. I can't make the colors come out right. It is not so garish. It is also on an Alexa routine and comes on every evening shutting off at bedtime. She is accompanied by two amazing paintings by a friend of hers and a small landscape by one of her ancestors who was a Southwest painter. So they no doubt talk at night.

All in all I'm happy with things for the moment. There may still be some rearranging. I took down a huge picture of a sailing ship that belonged to my grandfather. I saved it but it takes up wall space that could contain a couple of other hangings, yet to be determined. I'm giving it some more thought.

But things are picked up and cleaned and neat. For the moment.