I've been musing ( Read more... )

I always forget how windy it gets in fall. I forget that that's kind of the marker for fall when the winds start up. I've always felt kind of exhilarated by wind- thunderstorm wind, regular wind, Santa Ana winds. Love it. Most of the time, anyway ( Read more... )

Took the kayak out today. We just got it fixed, had a couple of leaks. Paddled out past the breakwater, just a little bit, and into the open ocean ( Read more... )

So one of the first talks at Bay Area Tarot Symposium was about our place as tarot readers, diviners. She talked about how we have as a society lost the connection, lost our understanding of how much it matters to connect to something greater than ourselves. Call it the universe, god, whatever- when we connect to it, we connect to each other ( Read more... )

Bay Area Tarot Symposium - otherwise known as a wacky, fun, educational weekend. It was fabulous. It's run by a woman who is a lot of fun, and probably a little bit crazy, but she's wonderful and still gets done what needs to happen. She gives one of the lectures over the weekend, and it's not to be missed. She has a lot of fun with it but still ( Read more... )

Went down to Chapman U yesterday for their TEDx afternoon full of mini-lectures. Some were more interesting or better speakers than others, but the woman at the end from SpaceX rocked it. And she had video of rockets. So fk-ing cool. There was a pageant-queen/model who talked about breast cancer and what breasts mean to us as a society. A student ( Read more... )

I'm finding myself more as an observer recently, than as a participant in things. Used to be, I'd always need to be in the middle of it all. Now, I tend to sit on the side and watch. Take pictures. I was initially disconcerted by this change in status, but now that I've sat with it, it's ok. The observer helps me to hesitate just a moment before ( Read more... )

Brushfire started yesterday at 6:30am. By 10:00am, it had gotten big enough to start a secondary fire several miles away at the university that's just a few miles from our house. It's up to 10,000 acres now- 15 square miles. It's taken out my favorite mountain bike trail on its way to the ocean. The air is full of smoke. Yesterday it wasn't so bad ( Read more... )

Went to see Rachel Maddow speak last month, on her book tour. She raised a couple of really interesting points that I've been trying to let simmer in my brain for a while. One of these is that "hero worship, pity, and fear are things we feel about people we don't understand ( Read more... )

Got back on the bike for the first time in ... three months? The bike club had a picnic yesterday to celebrate being a club for 25 years, and that was fun. I didn't do yesterday's ride, I'm way too out of shape, but went to the picnic. Brought the dog, who had a great time watching people and looking for food and getting a little run in the park ( Read more... )