The beauty of morning
Posted on July 14, 2006 - Filed Under And your point is? | Leave a Comment
This morning was one of those I really love. I walked outside and everything was very still and I could hear the various birds and bugs waking up. There was a bright moon still out and not a lot of clouds, so you could see the remaining stars. While I could hear some traffic from […]
Read More..>>Are you happy?
Posted on July 13, 2006 - Filed Under Adult swim | 2 Comments
The New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, has just conducted and released the results of a worldwide survey they call the ‘Happy Planet Index.’ Turns out, perhaps counterintuitively, that those nations which are the heaviest consumers of the Earth’s resources are not made up of the world’s happiest people.
It’s always nice when someone comes […]
Farewell little turtle
Posted on July 12, 2006 - Filed Under Adult swim | 1 Comment
I was driving back from the gym this morning on the road that leads to our development. As I am driving, I see in front of me a turtle crossing the street. I wouldn’t have known it was a turtle if it had not been moving ever so slowly across the road. I swerved […]
Read More..>>Don’t want to hear it
Posted on July 11, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I just realized something over lunch. I work for an organization which is comprised of a lot of people who assume the attitude, when they hear of people protesting something about the U.S., ‘If you don’t like it, leave!”. My office is based in a town that is very progressive, open to the arts and […]
Read More..>>“Dear Mr President…
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Political, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
I know you thought there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Sadly, for you, they were never found. Well, I have good news for you: We have some here in our tiny little community. I would say that you’re welcome to come get them but I think they’ve already been destroyed. I hope you […]
Read More..>>Is death enough?
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I am not the kind of person wishes suffering on people; that’s way too…uncompassionate for me. However, my first thought when I read last week that Enron founder Ken Lay had died was that he got off easy. If you’ve ever read any of the profiles of the people who suffered and continue to suffer […]
Read More..>>There’s something magical about it
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
It’s surely a purely Western thing and it’s kind of artificial, but there’s something undeniably wonderful about watching a child on a ride at an amusement park. Erin and I were lucky enough to be along last Monday when little Ryan was able to enjoy his first ride on one. I actually felt a little […]
Read More..>>We all have dreams and this is one of mine
Posted on July 9, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
One of my dreams is for my daughter and I to embark on a long distance hike beginning on or around 4 April 2019. (This date is ironic, as far as the whole ‘I have a dream’ thing, because it’s the day in 1968 on which Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down and died. […]
Read More..>>The story of Bacon
Posted on July 9, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
There’s so much to catch back up on from the last week and a half, so I thought we would start with something easy and cute. Last weekend (1-3 July), our friends Jack and Jill and their kids Lauren and Ryan came to visit. It was a full scale vacation for them; they planned to […]
Read More..>>No fireworks here
Posted on July 6, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Well, there’s no headline from here regarding Maggie’s first Fourth of July. I guess the main factor was the weather: basically, it was terrible. It really looked as though the city might cancel the fireworks show; as it turns out, they did not.
Rob, who is visiting, Erin, and I decided we might stand a good […]
