34\u00a0 bar steady 30.10 3mph NNE dewpoint 10 Spring<\/p>\n
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“Our power is in our ability to decide.” – R. Buckminster Fuller<\/a><\/p>\n Since long ago college days, I have found primary life guidance from the existentalist perspective.\u00a0 The existentialists believed, as do I, that we are responsible for our actions and always have a choice.\u00a0 I know there are Buddhists and cognitive scientists who might differ with seeming clarity of the I in this case and, even, with the notion of free will it implies.\u00a0Who knows? They may be right.\u00a0 Until they convince me,\u00a0(a circular notion if you think about it) I\u00a0will continue to act as if I am acting.<\/p>\n Kate and I had our business meeting at the IHOP nearby.\u00a0 Gourmet breakfasts for seniors.\u00a0 Omlettes and pancakes.\u00a0 Yum.\u00a0 After concluding that we’ve done well of late, except for that excess in Hawai’i, we drove to Wells Fargo Bank where I got a medallion seal on a letter to Vanguard adding Kate to my account and putting the assets of the account in our living trust.\u00a0 We set up the trust last October and I’m glad we’ve both lived long enough to finish moving our assets into it.<\/p>\n Ever since Monday I’ve been on a tear, getting this and that done.\u00a0 Got a loan.\u00a0 Got the beneficiary stuff completed.\u00a0 Filed tax stuff.\u00a0 Cleaned out my in-box.\u00a0 Sent an e-mail to Headwaters Parish about my upcoming preaching assignment there on April 13th.\u00a0 Set up the hydroponics and am into the third chapter of the large Permaculture Design<\/u> book by Bill Molison.<\/p>\n All this deck clearing provides, eventually, room for new work.\u00a0 Perhaps a novel, certainly outdoor work later this month, more reading in Taoism and art history.\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 34\u00a0 bar steady 30.10 3mph NNE dewpoint 10 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Moon of Winds “Our power is in our ability to decide.” – R. Buckminster Fuller Since long ago college days, I have found primary life guidance from the existentalist perspective.\u00a0 The existentialists believed, as do I, that we are responsible for our actions … Continue reading Making Room for New Work<\/span>