78\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 30.03\u00a0 0mph ENE dew-point 56\u00a0 Summer, warm and sunny<\/p>\n
Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
A trifecta.\u00a0 In to Minnehaha.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 In to Kenwood.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 In to Sierra Club and the MIA.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 As I said, I gotta check with my scheduler.<\/p>\n
Katarina is an intern from east Germany, Jena.\u00a0 We folded letters and surveys to candidates for Minnesota House races.\u00a0 She’s a bright young lady whose lucky boyfriend lives here.\u00a0 They both study political science and enjoy comparing US and German culture\/society.\u00a0 She gave the example of her parents:\u00a0 “They have never worried.\u00a0 They have no debt.\u00a0 They live modestly.”\u00a0 She said her mother was not allowed to finish high school in the old East German regime because her husband was a mathematics professor.\u00a0 If you had an intellengentsia in the home, you also had to have a proletarian.\u00a0 Odd logic, even for Marxists.<\/p>\n
After doing the mailing, I called about half a list of candidates who received the survey by e-mail last Friday.\u00a0 This was just a reminder call.\u00a0 Margaret Levin cajoled me into making phone calls and I’m glad she did.\u00a0 It wasn’t so bad.\u00a0 Of course, these were all friendly folk, too.<\/p>\n
Across the street from the Sierra Club is the Himalaya, a Nepalese restaurant.\u00a0 It was noon, so I stopped in for steamed dumplings stuffed with yak and a tasty sauce.\u00a0 The next course was a soup with potatoes, black-eyed peas and bamboo shoots.\u00a0 Nan accompanied this dish.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 I enjoy finding these small ethnic places and sampling cuisine from countries I have not visited.\u00a0 Food is one of the fastest ways into a culture, even faster, because more immediate, than language.<\/p>\n
I discussed purchasing a Nepalese thangka with the owner.\u00a0 When I said I would like a Yamatanka, he said, “Oh, you like Yama?” He stuck his tongue out and down, Yama’s typical presentation. “Yes,” I said.\u00a0 “Scary.”\u00a0 I’ll speak with him about it again when I go in to the Sierra Club political committee meeting next Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Before I went to the Sierra Club, I stopped at the Northern Clay Center and picked up a small plate.\u00a0 It is my intention, over the next few years, to replace our Portmerion with unmatched pieces from many potters.\u00a0 This is the fifth or sixth acquistion so far.<\/p>\n
Each quarter I define a retreat.\u00a0 It can be brief, three days or so, and it can be long, like the stay in Hawai’i.\u00a0 I find I need to punctuate my normal routine with these caesuras or I get stale.\u00a0 This habit began when I was in the ministry and I’ve found it a good carry over, so I’ve continued it.\u00a0 Here’s my retreat for the fall quarter:<\/p>\n
7\/22\/08\u00a0\u00a0 No traveling for this retreat.\u00a0 I will take two weeks and stop writing, stop using the internet (except for the blog and e-mail) and study books on novel craft.\u00a0 In this retreat I will create a reading program and a writing program that will guide my work for the next ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
78\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 30.03\u00a0 0mph ENE dew-point 56\u00a0 Summer, warm and sunny Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon A trifecta.\u00a0 In to Minnehaha.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 In to Kenwood.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 In to Sierra Club and the MIA.\u00a0 Back to Andover.\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 As I said, I gotta check with my scheduler. Katarina is an intern from … Continue reading Steamed Dumplings Stuffed With Yak<\/span>