I have come to understand that everything I do is part of my nature
and can be approached with mindfulness.
Zen driving is leading me to Zen work.

I seek to find my true nature.

I am not as tuff as I thought.

I felt that I would be good with my camping equipment
down into the 20;s. Mid 30's proved me wrong.
Lesson learned. Get  carbon monoxide detector
and figure out how to use the furnace in the
Beast.

The campfire shuffle.

The moon was waxing to 3 quarters full,
oak trees shod of their
leaves would rattle in the breeze.
and fir trees cast moon shadows.
Below 40 degrees the fire pulses
up and down in time to adding wood
and it being consumed.
The shins are closest and being perpendicular
to the radiant vector are first to
complain when they get to hot
causing me to shuffle the camp chair back
a foot or two. As the fire dies down
a bit the shins tell me to shuffle

back in.

Thanks

To Chris, Nancy and Meagan
having us over for dinner.
That my kids have gotten to know
my dad.
For the invisible made visible.

I am a lucky man, now is the time to respect that luck.

He just has to touch the hem of the ghost's robe, BAM.

Scrooge gets to be transformed so completely and in such a compressed period of time.

Michelle and Rick's new dog

Sampson on the furniture the morning of Sunday 11/4/2012.

Practice for my demise.

I woke this morning and did not know
who the president of the United States was
and for a while it was ok.

Overheard at work

Lindsey: "Chris, you sound insincere"
Chris: "No, I am very sincere, I am being sarcastic."

A euphemism for a euphemism on NPR

"Voters are aging out of the voting demographic,
which is a euphemism for leaving
this veil of tears."

I am to my cellphone as a cur is to his rope.