I live in Redmond, east of Seattle, in an area with a walkability score of 95. It is really wonderful and my ideal of a place to live: a city where I don’t need to drive to go where I need to go and where I have the maximum access to stuff that I might want to do. I’ve got all of that, for the first time in my life.

I feel so fortunate.

It’s truly up to us to work to gain some perspective on what it’s all about. This is the time that people have begun to harden and it’s the most important thing to not fall into that trap. Always question, always wonder; never assume that you know how it really is and always be open: that would be a great way to live a life.

Great day. I’ve been experiencing diverse sleeping patterns over the last many months. Recent weeks it’s been sleeping int with no interruptions, a welcome change. Today was a culmination, with near 13 hours of sleep, after weeks of waking up at some point in the night for 2-4 hours.

The long evenings give the opportunity for that to work.

The very thought of molesting a bear is on my do not do list.

I took a walk this evening and it was very enjoyable. I long for someone to share it all with. Mentioning that sends my intention out into the world.

I think that people have always lived with reality, despite their ideas of how it should be vs how it is, eventually, we see how reality is. Don’t we? Constant amazement here about how we can deceive ourselves about what is important and where the real risks are and stuff like that that needs attention.

I was looking at my credit union statement today and found that there was money that could have been put to a better use. The same has been true for several months.

What keeps us from doing the things that are important in our lives? What keeps us from caring enough about each other to let ourselves keep being divided into factions? Can’t we see how we all want the same things? Can’t we see how the actions of a few who want to have it all are not in our common interests, and make the collective choice to turn out the spoilers and maintain the wholeness?

Cool, cloudy and autumn-ish here in the Seattle region.

That cartoon choice was really interesting. I’m going to go all free association on it:

We’ve got the pre-existing fish hatchery, because it’s a given that we’ve messed up the natural flow of fish. The bear is just trying to be a bear, and runs afoul of the rules of society, the ranger first telling him, to fish like a bear, then stripping him of his rights to do so.

But is the ranger wholly to blame?

The bear is represented as greedy. Every time he is shown a bigger fish, or more fish, he throws away what he has, even though he could just eat right now, then go take a nap. He’s out for the most he can get.

Is it defensible for the ranger to limit the future consumption of the bear, because the bear doesn’t know when enough is enough?

The striking thing about that track was the one person who screamed on occasion, and how screaming people took all the fun out of being the Beatles

Comfortable, sunny weather here in Redmond, WA. Late celebrators are blowing off the last of this year’s fireworks, whose reports echo off the hill across the way, punctuating the sounds of automobiles, near and far.

Thanks, Suzanne. Usually I’m in bed at this hour! Went out with people from work and saw “Thor” and enjoyed it greatly. Glad to be here and it was nice talking to you on the phone also, for my welcome as an official FDL member.

Here to second the recommendation for nasal irrigation (i.e. neti pot or simliar, I use a syringe made in Sweden). It’s not pleasant. It’s not nice. It is incredibly effective and will knock out sinus infections before they start. At first sign of anything that seems to point in that direction, bite the bullet and do it.