Sunday comes with the promise of sunshine in the afternoon. Day after day for three days showers have come, when August is typically a dry month. I am thankful for the rain though I am compelled to mow the lawn 2x per week for a while. How happy I feel to see the creek…
Saturday with a gentle rain. For the past two or three days it has rained off and on. Meteorologists describe a heat dome parked over the midwest, circulating humidity, moisture-laden air, elevated heat, interfacing with cooler flows, thus rain and sometimes high winds. So, plans are adjusted to the prevailing outdoor conditions; I lingered…
What matters in your life today? What challenges and opportunities will I engage? I have plans in mind. Will nature endorse, go along with my intention to replace the missing bolt in the rotating blade of my Briggs and Straton powered tiller or, – not? Thunderstorms are expected for later today. Nature, that neighborhood…
Vs. 80 Let there be a little country without many people. Let them have tools that do the work of ten or a hundred, and never use them. Let them be mindful of death and disinclined to long journeys. They’d have ships and carriages, but no place to go. They’d have armor and weapons,…
Vs. 76 Living people are soft and tender. Corpses are hard and stiff. The ten thousand things, the living grass, the trees, are soft, pliant. Dead, they’re dry and brittle. So hardness and stiffness go with death; Tenderness, softness, go with life. And the hard sword fails, and the stiff tree’s felled. The hard…
We’ve all been there. I entertained a purpose, certainly I’ll post something this morning… Then, no matter the effort the Lenovo laptop would not link to the Starbucks wifi. My I-phone found the signal… And yes, I looked at the settings, and nothing was amiss. Having allowed such a circumstance to grow into a…
Two photos which recently came from the garden. The first are of tiny mushrooms growing in the organic debris at the side of the path. Wikipedia writes that these are Parasola genus of mushrooms. They are the size of an adult thumbnail. Likely the unseen underground filaments extend further than the visible umbrella-like shape….
Vs. 20 Yes and no Are they so different? Good and bad Are they so far apart? What others fear I must fear too Such recklessness! Without and end! Most people are merry making and happy As though celebrating the Great Sacrifice And climbing a lookout in the spring I alone am unmoved! Like…
Waking again to the light of a rising sun I have no complaint. I expect today will exceed my expectations. It would be well to expect as little as possible, to have a general, somewhat vague sense of direction. Then I could respond to events, to people, with curiosity, most often with delight. Not…
A cloud shrouded sultry August morning… Another day begins. I realized that I inadvertently missed an appointment yesterday. No matter the note written in my day-timer, my memory is no longer as reliable as in my youth. I imagined the appointment for today’s afternoon. Therefore an apology is called for. I will apologize and…
