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We’ve begun the slippery, muddy slide into the growing season, though I understand some of the parking lot snow piles, many well over 8 feet high and some much higher than that, will take a long time to melt.\u00a0 Maybe months, into the summer.\u00a0 The snow always pleases me as it falls and as it covers our world, now over 120 days straight with snow cover, but there is a time when it becomes a nuisance.\u00a0 The snow went beyond nuisance this year and became a definite hazard as it has become impossible around the piled snow at many city intersections.\u00a0 When driving the Celica out of the garage here, I’ve not been able to see traffic on 153rd since late December.\u00a0 In that regard I will be not sorry to see the snow melt away.\u00a0 On balance, though, I get far more pleasure from the snow than I do hassle, so when it’s time again, I’ll be ready.<\/p>\n
Leslie’s mindfulness presentation this morning was wonderful.\u00a0 We drew mandalas, did a guided meditation and ate a strawberry, a grape, a piece of cheese and a hunk of bread with intention and attention.\u00a0 We washed it down with water and tea.\u00a0 Each bite was an adventure.\u00a0 Made me aware of how unmindful I am when I eat.\u00a0 Also brought me into the present.\u00a0 It was a Be. Here. Now. time.\u00a0 Gotta get back to the meditation, discovered I missed it.<\/p>\n
South America.\u00a0 A lot to learn in the next six months plus.\u00a0 In addition to scoping out the ports, already somewhat begun, I’ll read at least one comprehensive history of the continent, an ecological history and a natural history.\u00a0 I want to find a reasonably priced geography, too.\u00a0 The ones I have found so far are damned expensive.\u00a0 One of the values of traveling is its ability to make the distant, close and the abstract, real.\u00a0 There’s a definite gestalt to lengthy travel in a part of the world unknown.\u00a0 At some point, a point uncertain, an understanding snaps into place, a combination of prior experience, preparation and that small market in Manta, Ecuador, the smells of Santa Marta, Colombia, the sight of glaciers around Punta Arenas.\u00a0 Then, like the Velveteen Rabbit, South America will become real for me.<\/p>\n
Often, I take along some literature, too, perhaps some Allenda, Losa, maybe I’ll just take take a Hundred Years of Solitude and read it again.\u00a0 The phrase book, too.<\/p>\n
Grocery store now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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