I saw a lady come out of one of the trailers on my mail route the other day. I saw her out of the corner of my eye when I stopped to put a piece of junk mail in her … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
I used to get this catalog “back in the day” that came from a company called Johnson Smith. It was a company that specialized at the time in the weird and the novel items that were all pretty darn appealing … Continue reading
Here’s a short video of an “eco-village” that was defined as being “somewhere around Asheville”. What is going on? All these little shacks right next to each other….what’s up with that? I remember seeing videos of field worker’s shacks on … Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl58kpKLsFk Here’s another short video about the “tiny house movement”. The tiny house movement seems to be a nice and more socially acceptable bridge between living in a van down by the river and a typical large house…just takes a … Continue reading
Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech had some weight and importance to it. It was a major speech given by a major man. When I wake up in the morning, and the first thing I say to … Continue reading
My oldest and first-born son has been into video games for a while. Now he’s pretty into music. When I wake up with a head full of mush, and the self-imposed responsibility of another morning blog post is staring me … Continue reading
I was thinking about words again this morning. Yesterday, I closed my post with the word “immolation”. This morning, I woke up thinking about “emulation”. I also thought about “emollient”. That’s a pretty amazing thing to me….so many different words, … Continue reading
I built a skateboard once when I was on the cusp of really turning old and brittle. I’d found a skateboard truck…the part that attaches to the board and holds the wheels on…at a great price and decided to build … Continue reading
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau So what happens if you slow down on your “castle building” … Continue reading
If I ever got a chance to see this angle of San Jose, CA in 1968, it would have been from the backseat of our 1967 Ford Fairlane station wagon. I probably would have been asleep…my sister Beth would have … Continue reading