Got home late last night from the weekend-ish trip ( Read more... )

I am really enjoying Mary Oliver's poetry. This one is not very cheerful, and short, but I thought worth sharing nonetheless.

"Watching a Documentary about Polar Bears Trying to Survive on the Melting Ice Floes"
by Mary Oliver

That God had a plan, I do not doubt.
But what if His plan was, that we would do better?

I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life (Ten)*
- Mary Oliver

Love, love, love, says Percy.
And run as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.

Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.

[* Percy is her dog. This is the tenth poem in the book written about Percy.]

I am alive, I am not buried under an avalanche, no one freak out ( Read more... )

Yesterday's trip to the Natural History Museum was awesome ( Read more... )

After dinner, 7:15 PST, Nora and I were walking back up to our cabin. We had to grab some stuff for ice cream making before we headed to the Diablo House for election result watching ( Read more... )

Freakin' Daylight Savings. At least it is now light in the morning when I get up, which is some consolation when it starts getting dark at 4:30pmI don't have to teach tonight; but I can hear the children howling like wolves before evening campfire ( Read more... )

Rainy days are not usually days that make me swoon. Usually they make me want to curl up and sleep ( Read more... )

October has been a whirlwind thus far. Mostly awesome ( Read more... )

Today I celebrated the equinox by taking a short hike out to one of the meditation shelters in the woods near the Learning Center ( Read more... )