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Dave Frishberg deserves wider recognition

Curb Appeal update

New Guinea impatiens are starting to mature!

Every Friday we do our neighborhood watch run. It takes around 1 hour to complete our 25 mile drive which begins and ends at our community center building. After finishing we sometimes check out the  small lending library (3 bookcases) that residents can use. Today I found a copy of Dickens Great Expectations and brought it home. I kept thinking that I may have read this before but could not remember. later as I began to look at it I was amused to see my library stamp on an opening page. Apparently I had donated it to the library at some point. Is this a senior moment or just another indication that I am  indeed a dolt!

Early Jazz Greats Continued

Postcatds from Hawaii island

Fourth in a series of Postcards taken from Hawaii The Big Island: Land Of Fire & Ice
photographed by
Franco Salmoiraghi

Ahead of his time

Stellar indeed!

Falling in love

Portmeirion can you not help falling in love?

happy guy

1983 happy guy on a train in Britain

Today was Monday and that means grocery shopping. A lot of socializing happens in our Locally owned store and the  isles are sometimes clogged with friends "talking story". Sharon is all business but I have turned into quite a blabbermouth talking to just about anybody. Today (being a holiday) the store was loaded with kids and moms.
I happened to see a family with a boy who was wearing a Cub Scout uniform . He had all the patches indicating he had completed all of the rank levels and of course I had to commend him.
Not being satisfied I returned later and encouraged him to not only continue in the Boy Scouts but to strive for the  Eagle rank .Then related that  I had come close to earning the Eagle rank but had quit, and had regretted it ever since. He looked somewhat intimidated , his mom was laughing nervously and when I returned to Sharon she said he was looking at me like I was crazy. I never realized that being outgoing was so fraught with danger.

Funny (not ha ha) that the Sunday comics are still a part of every Sunday for me. I suppose it started with my mom's influence when I was 8 or 9 years old . Never mind that I will be 66 this June Sunday is  just are not the same without them.

 

Early Jazz Greats Continued

Takes you far away to an exotic place!

Hawaii post cards

Third in a series of Post cards taken from
Hawaii The Big Island: Land Of Fire & Ice
Photographs by Franco Salmoiraghi

Years ago I did this drawing as a project  for a graphic design class .
The assignment was to break a design into distinct areas of
contrast. The location is a pathway in the Portmeirion village hotel
(one of my favorite places anywhere) and I tried to present a view of both ends of the path in one drawing. I started to obsess on that ide during one of our many visits to this enchanting place. Portmeirion
is in north wales which  is a very mystical place.
Maybe some of it rubbed off on me

Although I have this book for years, I have yet to master its principles and
continue my struggle . Mindfulness is based on  Buddhist practices that say
through meditation you can wake up and fully be in touch with reality.
I have learned enough to understand that diminished awareness of the present
moment leads to automatic actions and behavior based in fear and insecurities. Over the years I have found just how ingrained and deep
those are and have not been able to make much progress. Maybe I should just  change the blog name to Notso mindful and be done with it.

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