A blog for mindfulness...and various items. This just goes to show that even old farts can blog and go active in cyberspace. I have a 92 year old grandmother who does e-mail ! That's the kind of stock I come from !
I've had an inclination to write for as long as I can remember. I was Sports editor on my high school paper but left that post to enroll in literature courses where I got turned on to poetry. I was also into guitar and long-distance running. These have been life-long endeavors.
In college I briefly considered church ministry before setting my sights on becoming an educator. Then I got into psychology, transcendentalism, spiritualism, and existential philosophy. These have all had an impact on my work.
Not until well after marrying and establishing a family and career did I return to the pen with any regularity. In the mid 90's I experienced a creative outflow which produced hundreds of poems and lead to my first musical compositions. An avid rock guitarist I use the instrument to sonically parallel the lyrics I've written.
The creative flow is cycling again after a dormant period. Will it lead to Shangri-La or to Mordor ? I've reached that "fork in the road". I'll take "the road less traveled."
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These are my lemons! :)
My dwarf lemon tree yielded 10 nice lemons this year. Before we hit our first sub-freezing temps I took 6 ripe ones and left these 4 to see if I could still grow them into the first of the year. This tree is tough. I have never covered it. I do roll it up beneath my berry plants up against the house when it gets real cold, then wheel it out into the sunshine next day. I only water it when the soil feels relatively dry. It seems to thrive on moderate amounts of H2O. We are on track to have the fourth dryest December on record. We got 0.7 inch on December 15, and the forecast is showing little chance for anything significant. So, cold and dry is the name of climate change here in Northern California. Why do I get the sudden urge to squeeze my Led Zeppelin II album?
