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27-MAY

Delicious

Baobab Tree

Baobab fruit dries naturally on its branch instead of dropping and spoiling, it stays on the branch and transforms into a hard coconut-like shell. The pulp of the fruit dries out completely producing a delicious pure fruit powder.  

If the opinion that men might live very comfortably on virtue only, be a notorious error; no less false is that position of some writers of romance, that a man can live altogether on love; for however delicious repasts this may afford to some of our senses or appetites, it is most certain it can afford none to others.

Those, therefore, who have placed too great a confidence in such writers, have experienced their error when it was too late; and have found that love was no more capable of allaying hunger, than a rose is capable of delighting the ear, or a violin of gratifying the smell.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) by Henry Fielding

26-MAY

Phases

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered.

The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran (1923)

The moon is a constant companion. It’s always there, sometimes shining brightly, sometimes obscured by clouds, but it’s a reassuring presence in the night sky.

Like a friend, the moon is ever-present yet often silent, offering its gentle light and gravitational pull to Earth and all who gaze upon it.

ChatGTP

20-MAY

Perception

FIVE STAR DAY! Create something. that makes you feel good about yourself. It will prompt you to do the work necessary to reach your goal.

Open Sea

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Kahlil Gibran

… days of silence there in the desert were wearisome. –The Alchemist

11-MAY

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.

06-MAY

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

27-APR

School

Redhead in Edinburgh, Morning (2012) by G.Garchar

Long ago, during the last age of reason, certain proud thinkers had claimed that valid knowledge was indestructible – that ideas were deathless and truth immortal.

But that was true only in the subtlest sense, and not superficially true at all.

There was objective meaning in the world, to be sure: the non-moral logos or design of the Creator; but such meanings were God’s and not Man’s, until they found an imperfect incarnation, a dark reflection, within the mind & speech & culture of a given human society, which might ascribe values to the meanings so that they became valid in a human sense within the culture.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter Miller

26-APR

Summertime

View from front yard of Willow Glen Community Center

It is a long time since my last visit,” said Dumbledore, peering down his crooked nose at Uncle Vernon. “I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling