11-MAY

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Inner Coast Range

Sunol Regional Wilderness

Flag Hill at Sunol Wilderness is a slab of ancient sea floor which, in response to pressure from below, was tilted up more on one side than the other, revealing a cross-section of its sedimentary layers.

The hill shows a vegetation pattern typical of the inner coast ranges. During summer, the hot sun dries the south-facing slope. Only grassland and soft chaparral can survive under these conditions. On the north-facing slope where moisture lasts longer, trees thrive.

Sunol is one of the most beautiful parks in the Bay Area.

09-MAY

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Relationship

The Cocktail Party (1956) by John Koch

Individual personality is shaped by the nature of relationships with others, beginning at birth, throughout life, but also those relationships that are remembered from times past, imagined during waking hours, fantasied in dreams at night, and even fabricated in hallucinations.

Harry Sullivan

08-MAY

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Round & Round

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy

It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy

07-MAY

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Far Future

Doomed to do it again & again, no choice but to play a Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall.

Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome: ground to dust; plowed with salt.

Spain, France, Britain, America – burned into the oblivion of centuries.

–A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

06-MAY

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Tree Trunk

Don’t strut too tall!

18-Rules to Live By

  1. Question every answer.
  2. Own all outcomes, good & bad.
  3. Be curious about what’s not right.
  4. Eschew comfort, but don’t give up seeking pleasure.
  5. Read books; only finish reading the good ones.
  6. Write the story of your life.
  7. Fix what you break; build what we need.
  8. Take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
  9. Surround yourself, on occasion, with pure silence.
  10. Calibrate the truth to tell.
  11. Tolerate imperfection.
  12. Look ahead, but act today.
  13. Start small and compound interest consistently.
  14. Quit bad moods; always remember the good times.
  15. Beat a day of distraction with one hour of intense effort.
  16. Stop what you’re doing and rest, then pace yourself.
  17. Explore your dreams at night.
  18. Direct your focus with a conditioning ritual:
    • Breathe
    • Gesture
    • Visualize

04-MAY

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Franquette St

Repaving commences today!

Start your day at 4:00 AM. You’re up any way, why do you to need to stay in bed? Sit up and meditate. Breathe, and say the word “thought” over and over again trying to visualize what it looks like. If that makes you sleepy, go back to bed.