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A Formerly Normal Sized Person in Everyday Ramblings
On Tuesday UPS sent me an email that a package would be delivered between 10AM and 2PM so I was ready. My new iPhone was on its way. At 9:45 my doorbell rang and it turned out to be an Amazon de...
Like an Arc Light (A Connected Chain) in Everyday Ramblings
Wow. I feel better. I think maybe I had a bug. I was trying to figure out why my head and lower back and hips ached because it didn’t seem like I had done any overly ambitious exercise. My mouth...
Deep Breathing in Everyday Ramblings
If you look out my front windows it looks like winter. There is still some fall in the back. Yesterday evening I was able to get all the leaves off my patio as the trees above have by now releas...
Grid Lock in So Many Ways in Everyday Ramblings
I read about the electrical grid and look out the window at late fall. Electricity is fascinating. It is very now. I am typing this on my precious slow laptop on the power cord and it is very l...
Focusing on the Positive Close to Home in Everyday Ramblings
We had a gorgeous dry day today. It was a joy to be out in it. The mountains were visible and covered in fresh snow. Kitten has arrived. Pictures will follow. He may end up being Oliver, or Kit,...
But Then Again… in Everyday Ramblings
This is one of the ginko’s next to my place. November is yellow here. So after seeing the whole team of dental specialists last week I was sad to hear that they have plans for me after January. ...
Living Up to Expectations in Everyday Ramblings
It is not raining! After almost three times the normal rainfall over the last five weeks it is such a joy to be out and about with no precipitation to describe degrees of. There is progress in ...
Not Quite With It in Everyday Ramblings
I know, it is Halloween but please indulge me one last picture of the beach even though I am home. We had such a relaxing time. When one thinks about it the fact that everything went so well and...
Loving It in Everyday Ramblings
It is gorgeous here right now. I took this shot just after dawn so it was still a bit cloudy. My inner pony could not wait to get out on the beach. Looking ahead we had a pretty good idea that ...
How Wet Are You? in Everyday Ramblings
This is the mix of leaves outside the windows of my bedroom/office. Yesterday after the heavy wet atmospheric fog burned off the river and surrounds we had a light sunny day. I walked with Frida...
The Philosophy Cafe? in Everyday Ramblings
I won’t be able to go to the Mythos class for the final session next week because I will be at the beach. It is so good. Last night we talked about the modern Mythos, what ideas or concepts are ...
Leaf Fall and Asides in Everyday Ramblings
Welcome to my world of wet leaves. This is the colorful downside of living in a place so green in an environment of climate change. I feel for the guys out there finishing up the work on the tra...
Taking a Deep Breath in Everyday Ramblings
We had a big wet windstorm yesterday afternoon and I managed to get out a bit before the worst of it hit to take this shot. It was kind of like a free day because we were planning a hike and din...
Trying To Make Some Sense of it All in Everyday Ramblings
“They will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and your family, they will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation. They will lie, lie...
A Ram's Horn and an Uncertain World in Everyday Ramblings
On Monday the fall session of my yoga class started. We run it through the adult programs package, which gives its availability a high profile in the large church community of which I am a part....
Private Pleasure Grounds in Everyday Ramblings
You can tell here by the angle of the shot that my neighborhood is built on a slope. When I went on the Archives Crawl on Saturday I came home with a one-page print out of an insurance map from ...
A Kind of Reckoning in Everyday Ramblings
Mr. Finch was raised as the youngest golden boy of 9 living children in a rich conservative household. He was brilliant and oh so handsome and charming as many of you know as you traveled along ...
Raw Eggs in Your Armpits? Okay Fine in Everyday Ramblings
About four years ago I saw that I was developing a bunion on my right foot. I didn’t really understand what they were at that point. I knew Kes was concerned that her feet didn’t seem to her to ...
Never Getting to Perfect in Everyday Ramblings
Every Sunday morning I send out a reminder email to my students about what we are going to explore in class during the coming week and any housekeeping “stuff” they may need to know about. I’ll ...
A Painterly Picture and Algorithims in Everyday Ramblings
Late yesterday I had my skin check. It has been three years since they removed the malignant melanoma and I am all clear. Clear enough that I don’t have to get naked and checked so often. My nex...
The Archives Crawl in Everyday Ramblings
This will be the first time since I started teaching yoga that I am taking a short break. I have taken a few classes off because of the weather or surgery during the 3 ½ years but never a whole ...
King Material Desire in Everyday Ramblings
It’s a pumpkin! Very cool to see them growing in my neighborhood. I just took this on my midday walk. As I was walking I was listening to a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita called “The Essence o...
Really? There is No Problem? in Everyday Ramblings
Yes I know it is a little blurry. There wasn’t much light and it was starting to drizzle on Friday when I took this at the upper part of the park above the track. Kes and Most Honorable are at t...
Coping With the Unexpected in Everyday Ramblings
This was my beloved former gym and track across the big street on the 25th of September last year. This is it today. I tried to get the same shot but there is a fence all around the areas being...
Change - The New Fronteir in Everyday Ramblings
This is a current view from the edge of the vacant lot next door to one of the houses down at the end of the dead end block that my place fronts on. It is pretty green considering that we are mo...
