December 14th, 2009 § § permalink
I alternate between riding my bike, walking or not doing any exercise at all!
Lately, with the cold weather “C” has been winning! A week ago when I rode to my favorite park it was cloudy and cold, but I persevered. It was worth it because no one else was out. I love that!
I lay on a gray cold metal picnic table. There are pine trees that remind me of home and there is a lovely pond where ducks chase each other. Sometimes in the morning the ducks fly low and land so gracefully. I envy their flying ability and their landings. Amazing stuff. Sometimes dogs on leashes explore with their companions each and every tree and blade of grass. Last Saturday it was either too cold or too early. All I know or care about is that I was alone. 
It was misty and wet and hazy. As I looked up I felt strangely dizzy. Did I ride too hard or too long? Did I have vertigo? Then I realized the mist was moving, not east or west or north or south, but up. There was no wind, so the movement was quiet perceptible. I watched it slowly become puffy with cob web strings along its edges. I reached out to feel it or touch it like a little kid up against the candy store window. Just air floating through my fingers.
Blue started peaking through and soon the rising sun melted it all away. It was gone. Dissipated and no one else would ever know it was there.
Riding home with the sun now warming my back I felt strangely optimistic. I guess being hugged by a cloud does it for me.
Love my morning ride!
December 13th, 2009 § § permalink
The holiday season is not hard to embrace when you get to attend events like this. I love seeing these young teenagers experiencing their “glee” moments. I know I will never experience what it feels like to have a talent that can touch peoples hearts, as I believe only music can, but I do not feel slighted in the least. I feel uplifted. I hope you do too!
Click here or the picture if you would like to hear the choir.
December 9th, 2009 § § permalink
Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for busses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payrole Meanwile, sitting in his villa on the coast of Spain is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars!
…..And no one even knows his name.
December 4th, 2009 § § permalink
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams
