So we stood in the backyard again today, watching the weather in the east. We watched the dark clouds part and drift to the north and south of us. We watched blue sky open overhead while thunder rolled somewhere in the west where it was undoubtedly raining hard. In full sun, tantalizing raindrops fell from […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
It Passed Us
Wed, 4 Sep 2013, 08:28 PM (-06:00)
“Come look. You have to see this,” she said. There was a band of green on the map. And then yellow. And then orange. And red. The color splotch marched across her computer screen from east to west. It was coming right at us. “Hey, you took my place,” she later complained when I sat […]
As It Was, So It Is
Tue, 3 Sep 2013, 09:52 PM (-06:00)
He sat on the other side of the bookshelf. He had red hair and shining eyes. He was fit and tall and walked with confidence and certainty as he came and went. There was a poster on the wall above his desk. It had an F-16 fighter in some kind of banking turn or attack […]
Bad Ass
Sat, 31 Aug 2013, 11:07 AM (-06:00)
“There you are,” she said. I opened my eyes and turned my head. Like a dream, I saw her in the distance, her hair tousled from her eight mile run, her arms swinging confidently by her side as she took long strides toward me. There was a look of exasperation on her face. “For heaven’s […]
It Depends
Sat, 10 Aug 2013, 03:33 PM (-06:00)
Maybe it’s cause for hope that notable politicians and tech experts are starting to speak out about our government’s surveillance policies. Bruce Schneier is one. A top computer security expert with a knack for communicating, he writes books, he blogs online and recently he has been publicly … shall we say … skeptical of what the […]
On Defining the Problem
Sat, 3 Aug 2013, 10:25 AM (-06:00)
In a recent interview, James Galbraith said this. [They are] not going to escape the consequences of this. […] it’s a choice that [they] can, and I’m sure, will make. But what is necessary is to state clearly what the choice actually is. In this particular conversation, he was discussing Germany and the Eurozone and […]
A Dandelion from Free Range Living
Fri, 26 Jul 2013, 08:40 PM (-06:00)
From Free Range Living‘s Project 365, comes this dandelion, at which point the pen and the tablet beside me beckon. It does the free range dandelion no justice. It was just a scribble but not bad as a Friday night meditation. Happy weekend.
That Might Have Been Me
Sun, 21 Jul 2013, 08:53 PM (-06:00)
So we stood there at the overlook gazing into the distance and into Halema‘uma‘u crater, Pele’s home. The sky was blue. White clouds went by. We could see to the horizon from where we stood. Steam and smoke and volcanic vapors rose into the sky and caught the wind. We stood there for a while viewing the […]
Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea from Kilauea
Sat, 20 Jul 2013, 05:19 PM (-06:00)
Another from that trip more than a year ago. We’re getting very near the end… It looks like it’s going to be a nice day. Bits of blue sky are showing thru the clouds here and there, so we go up to Kilauea one more time. We show the gate attendant our receipt from several […]