Monday, December 31, 2007
away and back
New Years eve morning, reading and catching up with mail, wondering what I should do, winds are too high in the mountains, so I'm in Seattle. I'm drinking bad tea since I ran out of the good stuff, and tried to get the tea I wanted yesterday but Peets was out, so it's settling for a tea bag of black tea to start my day.
I'm not sharing my resolutions, I don't have hard rules for the new year but I seem to always have ideas and thoughts, things I want to work on to make a better life for me and everyone around me.
It's been a long year(about 365 days), like almost all of my years it seems to be a year of great joy and great loss. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the things I've lost and maybe not enough time thinking about the things that I've gained or that I've always had.
To start off with a clean plate and an empty chalkboard, I want to ask for forgiveness for the things I've done that have let anyone down, or hurt them, and I want to say that I've let go of the angers, disappointments and pains of the past. I'm more interested in the present than anything that has happened before. And thanks for everything all of you have done to make my life a better one.
This year (like all years) has the potential to be the best year, lets all walk towards that idea.
Thanks for looking, reading and being around,
Christian
2008 daily photos will be here.
I'm not sharing my resolutions, I don't have hard rules for the new year but I seem to always have ideas and thoughts, things I want to work on to make a better life for me and everyone around me.
It's been a long year(about 365 days), like almost all of my years it seems to be a year of great joy and great loss. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the things I've lost and maybe not enough time thinking about the things that I've gained or that I've always had.
To start off with a clean plate and an empty chalkboard, I want to ask for forgiveness for the things I've done that have let anyone down, or hurt them, and I want to say that I've let go of the angers, disappointments and pains of the past. I'm more interested in the present than anything that has happened before. And thanks for everything all of you have done to make my life a better one.
This year (like all years) has the potential to be the best year, lets all walk towards that idea.
Thanks for looking, reading and being around,
Christian
2008 daily photos will be here.
more...
"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. "
This time from Thoreau's Walden
This time from Thoreau's Walden
maybe like no big men in history, there are no big moments either
"The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody’s life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. The present moment is always small in the sense that it is always simple, but concealed within it lies the greatest power. Like the atom, it is one of the smallest things yet contains enormous power. Only when you align yourself with the present moment do you have access to that power. Or it may be more true to say that it then has access to you and through you to this world."
Tolle
Tolle
Sunday, December 30, 2007
here is to less photos of bella posted next year, or more
Saturday, December 29, 2007
sometimes some light shines though the clouds
Friday, December 28, 2007
more tunnel
someday maybe I'll understand people
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071227_BHUTTO_FEATURE/index.html?#section1
Thursday, December 27, 2007
09.03 Alpental
tiger day
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/345078_sftiger28.html
This story is so interesting to me. Sad to see people and animals die, but damn, so odd.
This story is so interesting to me. Sad to see people and animals die, but damn, so odd.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
08.01 Central
More than a foot of super light powder, best snow yet.
Long drive home, but thankfully I was passenger this time, better than yesterday, but this photo seems more like the road to Baker than I-90
I now am in love with taking photos in tunnels.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
07.02 Alpy
Fun stuff on top lots of snow up there but it's awfully bumpy. The snow coming down made for a long, slow drive home, snow on the ground almost all the way back to Seattle. Lots of people had unhappy Christmas days after they crashed in the snow. I hope they were taken care of in better ways before they crashed.
where did jesus go?
Monday, December 24, 2007
crisp, cold, but a good feeling
Sunday, December 23, 2007
double entendres?
Saturday, December 22, 2007
aren't all entrances accessible?
Friday, December 21, 2007
Driving Bella to the park
Thursday, December 20, 2007
99 -- going home from taking Samantha to the airport
more from Walden...
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them.
Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Mercer exit home form the mountain
06.01 Alpental Opening Day
+ More snow thn I've been in all year
+Snowing all day
-Getting stuck in waist deep powder is rough
+2 opening days this year, Alpy and Baker, very cool.
+So fun to be back at Alpy.
- More people at one place than I've ridden with all this year
-Beingsideways on I-90 on the way home with a big rig heading towards us.
+Managed to get it straight and drive slower the rest of the way home.
+A great day.
+Even made it to yoga.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
when
05.02 Snoqualmie West
Monday, December 17, 2007
Been reading Walden
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? They have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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04.01 Snoqualmie West
Sunday, December 16, 2007
She likes the holidays
Saturday, December 15, 2007
waiting for enough snow to not destroy it
Friday, December 14, 2007
03.03 Baker
Bloody and bruised but okay.
The day after my fall, I'm fine, my arm hurts, but all is well.
Stolen photo too, I forgot my camera.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
sore, soar, sour, sower,
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
please snow, please
Monday, December 10, 2007
it's cold outside
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Breakfast and inspiration via Bob.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Burr
Friday, December 7, 2007
02.02 Baker -- amazing fun mediocre conditions
Thursday, December 6, 2007
bourbon
drinking bourbon is so odd it's a subtle buzz, it's a quiet abstract feeling, not a direct thing like gin.
Someone is building something outside, in the neighborhood, hammer hammer hammer. I was trying to read, then i was trying to type, in between sipping bourbon and of course, petting B.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
cloudy and ...
Bella stares out this window so often, looking for anything to attack. She of course only barks an makes a fuss until she can lean against whomever it is that she sees. She sits there all the time while I read.
It was cloudy this morning when I was avoiding yoga due to exhaustion, but I was around the corner anyway coming home from tutoring. The kids are all right, but the most integrate class I've ever seen has so many race issue. Sometimes it seems that they are all tongue in cheek other times it seems like they are just under the surface ready to pour out. I argued about the bet cuisine with a Chinese kid a Mexican and Somalian.
Just for your info, my stack ranking went;
French
Mexican
Japanese
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
it will get easier and brighter
Monday, December 3, 2007
the northern lights attack bella in the midst of a rain and wind storm
Sunday, December 2, 2007
and it rains and rains
Saturday, December 1, 2007
sometimes seattle is very different than South california
Snow in the city is such an oddity for me.
I play in the snow a lot these days, but it's still such a cool thing. Bella doesn't seems to like it a lot but it has made me smile all day.
There was a time when I was in Edison New Jersey in the winter, a snowstorm came and it dumped a good 6 inches on the ground during dinner. I remember being awe struck that something like that could happen. I remember running around in it, throwing snowballs, smiling, running, falling, tackling each other, having a great time. Then it all seemed to disappear.
Today I got to see and hear the kid next door throw snowballs and have a blast. i was smiling all afternoon.
reindeer in seattle?
