A Nice Fourth
For the first time since Aunt Butch's death, a good portion of the family got together, and at our place on top of it. Unfortunately, it rained the useful portion of the day and so there was no outdoor cookout. Other than that, I'm still recovering from that cold or mild bronchitis or whatever it was. It pretty much was over the first week, lingered the second and now just clearing its way out on the third. At...
Wisdom
"Life is too short to hold back, but too long to say exactly what's on your mind." It's from my daughter's MySpace. I don't think she knows how proud I am of her as a person, and she always surprises me with a clarity of mind so rare in this world. It's my duty as a parent to try and correct little things before they get big, so I might seem critical or over-concerned at times, but deep down inside I thing she'll...
Messianic Synagogue – Congregation B’rith Hadoshah
This Sabbath (Saturday) I went with a new friend of mine from the Red Dragon school to the local Messianic Synogogue. The service lasted two hours, had some readings from the Torah, other Old Testamant, and a letter of Paul ("Rabbi Saul"). There was a circle of a handful of people dancing of all ages during the hymns, which were in Hebrew and English. It was a nice service, except for the excessive standing. ...
I had a shaving accident.
Wrong attachemnt. I am smooth now. That is all.
It’s always good to come home NOT in a body bag.
I was on the way to the farm, driving downt he 219 in Springville. One lane each way, double yellow line. Incase you aren't paying attention, that means NO PASSING. Unless you are a sports car and don't mind a head-on collision. Coming at me with a combined relative velocity of at least 130 mph, only my Jedi reflexes saved me. The swerve was sharp, and the whole event lasted proabbly under a single second. If...
I like Allentown.
My wife and I did some cleaning (and spackling) over at our friend Michelle's new apartment. She lives in a part of Allentown you have to go through a small park to get to, except on foot, exempting you from one-way streets going out from it in all other directions. She had two electrical power outlets in the living room that had a really odd prong configuration. Even her mom (an electrical engineer) didn't...
Memorial Day Weekend
Simple weekend really, and no get-togethers ... Saturday: Turkey & Asparagus (camp fire of course) Sunday: I gave the blessing and led in song the service at Forest Lawn Cemetery, and may have been caught on television. Abe Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address; tried to sell me his tickets to the theatre. Monday: Took care of ancestral graves in Dunkirk (St. Hedwig's Cemetery). This year we did something...
What Globalism Means to Me
In exchange for some boxes of corn bread, which took a fortune to send to Scotland, my wife found someone online willing to procure a stamp I saw in Business 2.0 from the UK. 8 Boxes of Cornbread = United Kingdom stamp set including an image of Santa pooping in someone's chimney Not a bad exchange rate, especially since they threw in a bottle of HP sauce. I had no idea Hewlett Packard was that diversified.
2006 Tai Chi Journal
{finally being tweaked and here published} Introduction I never considered myself a Tai Chi master. The two main reasons for this is that first, I am not a master in that art, and secondly, that I am honest about it. I am and always have been a scholar -- a student of the arts who has played the role of teacher in so much as making what I do know available where otherwise it would not. I have always deferred to the...