A bit of this and bit of that goes into a garden compost to make a fertile soil amendment. So these posts, when taken together, create a fertile environment for this blog to grow. It’s also not lost on me that I just compared half of my blog posts to rotting and decomposing plant matter.
From throngs of angry communists
who longed for Bar-B-Ques
we’ve been gifted something dear
though I’m not sure of its use
A “holiday” devoid of fun
Lacking gifts or songs to sing
ironic that on Labor Day
we sit home and do nothing.
Life’s greatest paradox is that you need a web browser to download a web browser. Ryan Davison
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless – a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task. Dr. Norman Doidge – The Brain …
Today during lunch I went to the grocery store. I wanted a salad but needed to get a few things first including olive oil. A few days earlier I went to the same store and tried to buy olive oil on a buy-one-get-one sale but they were all out. Thankfully, this time the shelves were …
Most mornings around 6:00am I go for a walk in my neighborhood. I always thought I was getting out fairly early and felt a little self-righteous that I was the only one out and about. I figured no one else was willing to get up and get out early like I was. Then, this morning …
A few weeks ago I decided not to post to the blog on Sundays. Now I’ve decided to abstain on Saturdays too. I think I see a pattern here but it’s too early to tell for sure. It’s not that I’m getting lazy or trying to do less. Quite the opposite. I want my Saturdays …
Today I started reading The Joy of Doing Nothing by Rachel Jonat. I was so enthralled by the premimse that I stopped reading it immediately.
For several months now I’ve been posting something to the blog every day of the week. I’ve made it a point to create something (prose, poem, drawing, photograph) new every day and share it. But lately I’ve been feeling like weekend posting is too much. Even something good like writing can benefit from a disruption …
There are a lot of advantages to consumer rebate carts. But they’re all for the companies giving them out. For the consumer, you get a pseudo-debit card that expires 12 seconds after it’s mailed out. By the time you get the card in the mail after 6 to 8 weeks, the account maintenance fees have …