I enjoy good conversation and a good beer or two... "Beer is far more than a drink, it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety."
- Erich Remarque
BUILDING
I’m reading a great book about living the good life. It’s called… surprise! Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing. There is a whole chapter about building with stone, using forms similar to concrete forms. Now I’m not the most handy man around. My son keeps mentioning how we start a project, then [...]
What’s up with walking? I walk almost a mile from my bus to work every morning. And I have the most lucid experiences. It’s like meditation or dreaming. I have the most wonderful thought & ideas. I think, “I’ve got to share these ideas; put the on my blog.” And when I get to work [...]
I just finished skimming Bruce Sterling’s Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years. For me this means reading the interesting parts. I was throroughly engrossed by Chapter 4: The Soldier. Bruce gives a snapshot of three contemporary terrorists/warlords; the precise description depends on your point of view. He profiles Chechnya’s Shamil Basaev, Serbia’s Zeljko Raznatovic [...]
The instructor for my ASL course (American Sign Language) lectured on deaf culture and history last night. We had an interpreter for the first time. I realized how much I miss & take for granted being able to ask questions regularly - as in other classes with hearing teachers. This does make me ponder all [...]
I try to learn something new every day. On my way from the bus to work, I look at things I would not normally notice: the pattern of bricks in buildings, differences and similarities in buildings, textures, colors, small details. There is so much that people take for granted: sights, smells… little things.
So, have a [...]