yesterday, I was grateful for friends and the five turkeys we harvested that we might feed ourselves and others…
today I am looking forward to a morning of normal routines and the farmers market…
yesterday, i was grateful for restorative yoga with Maryanne, and for the two women who told me they loved my yoga outfit…
today, i am looking forward to a doctor’s visit to see if we can sort out the somewhat debilitating pain in my right shoulder…
yesterday, i was grateful for a chat with my cousin and food delivery from Isamu because i really didn’t feel like cooking…
today I am looking forward to coffee at K&C and a productive day of reading, writing, and photo editing…
yesterday i was grateful for Geenno at Allsport, lunch with Holly and SciFi book club…
today i am looking forward to analog journaling and maybe pilates with Tessa…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Anne and receipt of a new analog journal…
today i am looking forward to lunch with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for an afternoon at the movies with Holly…
today i am looking forward to the arrival of analog journaling and note taking supplies and yoga with Anne…
yesterday i was grateful to the dogs for taking us out to see the magical fireflies…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market…
yesterday i was grateful for a salon afternoon with Karen, Gina and Joanna…
today i am looking forward to household chores and setting up for a turkey harvest…
men should learn that embracing feminine qualities is not a failure of manhood… to be egalitarian, nurturing, centered on power with, not over, does not make a man incapable of manliness… anymore than a woman’s being assertive and authoritative makes her incapable of being womanly when she wants to be… the qualities of masculine and feminine can be embraced and enacted by men or women… we need a culture that values a fluid masculine/feminine spirit…
yesterday i was grateful for my get together with Adi and Sunny Nail Spa for a wonderful mani/pedi…
today i am looking forward to the ladies at Beauty Ritual and getting my hair trimmed…
yesterday i was grateful for coffee and shopping with a friend…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga with Maryanne and a mani/pedi at Sunny Nails…
yesterday i was grateful for a good photo salon, especially the beautiful flowers by Steve…
today i am looking forward to coffee with a friend and pilates with Tessa…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Julian, who substituted for Anne…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne, lunch with my beautiful wife Holly, and in person photo salon…
yesterday i was grateful for Step and Lukie, new friends, kale and scallions from my garden and Arival, the movie, which we watched for the fourth or fifth time…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Anne abd working on a new blog post…
is it paranoid to think that white nationalist militias have or will become the foot soldiers of ICE?…
my feminine, almost two years in :: Essays On Attention Paid
i believe in the power of feminine… having learned that women are every bit as capable of exercising the power of patriarchal structure, in dominating patriarchal ways, i realized it was the egalitarian and nurturing qualities we associate with the feminine that were important and sadly withered across much of human history… i am trying to puzzle out why masculine has been so dominant since time out of mind almost…
yesterday i was grateful for a shopping trip to COSTCO… we saved $100 on dog treats alone!… and COSTCO is a good company…
today i am looking forward to some garden work, then hunkering down with AC as temperatures reach almost 90 this afternoon…
shadow/reflective selfie in front hood of our car…
my wife and i have decided to read the Declaration Of Independence out loud to each other today… we believe our country is in deep danger of turning authoritarian… we will treat the Declaration as the sacred document it is… we will honor its aspirations… i can see this becoming an annual ritual..
yesterday i was grateful for two male acquaintances who made a point of talking to me in the coffee shop…
today i am looking forward to reading the Declaration of Independence out loud with Holly… we will celebrate what could and should be, rather than what is in the present moment…
yesterday i was grateful for a ribeye steak cooked on the green egg…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga with Maryanne…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Maryanne and pork chops from Barb’s…
today i am looking forward to office time at the cemetery and goodies from Marbled Meats and Cold Spring fish…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Anne and Japanese salted salmon…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne…
yesterday i was grateful for dinner with David, Eleni, Tina, Arthur and Holly…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Anne…
on my lack of loyalty to the human species :: Essays On Attention Paid
Dawn is the first book of a trilogy cronicaling the human/Oankali story… it takes place on an Oankali spaceship orbiting earth… Lilith, a human who has been brought out of suspended annimation after a 250 year slumber, is the main protagonist… she is one of the few survivors of nuclear war on earth… the far more advanced Oankali “rescued" her and others from certain death, and are in the process of resuscitating the species and returning them to earth… but, there is a catch…