A Mindful Life

This green man hangs out at my parents’ home. We’re parched and thirsty here. I’m longing for cool forest shade, green leafy glades, and chuckling creeks.

That in California, your license can be revoked if you get 4 points in 12 months, 6 points in 24 months, or 8 points in 36 months.
That usually you get one point each ticket.
That many people are gallingly cavalier about speeding and treat driving school as a necessary evil. (One class participant got a ticket [...]

It’s 102 degrees (39 Celsius) here at the moment. After coffee with a friend this morning, I made a beeline for home and took a nap. I’m so grateful this house has air conditioning (we’re still running it pretty warm, around 79 degrees). It’s the kind of day for a good book, a cold drink, [...]

Today, Friday July 21, has been another Spare the Air Day. I worked from home rather than drive in to Milpitas. Unfortunately, tomorrow will also be a Spare the Air day. (Public transportation will not be free, however.) The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has now used all six of the budgeted free travel [...]

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun — bang, it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts [...]

The first meeting of the Snuggle knitting group happened last Sunday. It was a success! I finished my blanket and it’s below.

I used one skein of Lion Bran Thick and Quick on size 13 needles. It’s about 12×16″ and will be donated to the Peninsula Humane Society. More to come!

My car is fixed! (You can read about the most recent incident here and about the history here.) There’s a story behind it, but I’ll say up front (in case you don’t want the gory details) that I love my mechanic. I love his full-volume passion for cars, his integrity, his competence. If I were [...]

Tomorrow, July 20, will be a spare the air day in the Bay Area. The ground-level ozone (smog) has been worse of late because of the high temperatures and no wind. Things you can do tomorrow to help:
On Spare the Air Days, we ask Bay Area residents to fight pollution by driving less, taking public [...]

Monday afternoon around 3 p.m. my supervisor came to me and a coworker and asked if we’d like to see Chris Isaak in concert that night. She had two tickets but couldn’t attend. Believe me, we scrambled to arrange our schedules! I hadn’t been to a live music event in years. It was held at [...]

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
–Paul Klee
The quote reminds me of the classic, Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott.