August 31, Tuesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
Rest my sore calf at night.
I've been reading about Labyrinths.
I've been enjoying reading:
Garden
and Climate. By Chip Sullivan. Foreword by Marc Trieb. New
York,
McGraw Hill, 2002. Index, 263 pages. ISBN: 0070271038.
Ancient gardens
in the Mediterranean climates are considered in terms of their function to
provided a more comfortable living space amidst the four
elements.
"Your life is a sacred journey. And it is
about change, growth, discovery, movement,
transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible,
stretching your
soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking
courageous
challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you
are
meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your
life
story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing of courage, of beauty, of
wisdom,
of power, of dignity, and of love."
- Caroline Adams
August 30, Monday, 2004
Seek medical advice from my primary physician, Dr. Plett, about my calf problem.
Work outdoors, irrigation opportunity, painting.
Resting because of calf injury. Applying heat compresses and
taking
Biaxin XL antibiotics. After I move about a bit I don't have much pain in
the leg.
I've been reading about Labyrinths.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi
Enjoyed the photographs in:
Mazes
and Labyrinths of the World. By Janet Bord. New York, E.P.
Dutton, 1975.
Index, 181 pages. ISBN: 0525474412. An excellent assembly of black
and white
photographs of mazes and labyrinths from around the world.
August 29, Sunday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work with Greg on the Yang Long Form, Section I; push hands,
breathing aspects.
Karen and I enjoyed a trip to the CSU Chico, Merriam University Library.
Reading and research about the month of August, and summer quotes and poems.
A surface vein in my right calf is blocked/clogged/collapsed. A wide
area of redness
and pain caused me to seek professional medical attention at St. Elizabeth's
Emergency
Room.
August 28, Saturday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 30 minutes at dawn and 40 minutes at
dusk.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Teach Taijiquan at TFFC from 9:30-11.
Yoga class with Sam from at TFFC 11 - 12:30.
Pain in my right calf.
Work of shed roof in afternoon. Very hot!!
Reading and research about the month of August, and summer quotes and poems.
August 27, Friday, 2004
Time for rest today.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
Reading and research about the month of August.
August 26, Thursday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
TFFC: weightlifting for 30 minutes, yoga class with Gudrin 75 minutes (5:30 - 6:45).
Reading and research about the month of August.
"Life is all about ass. You're
either: covering it, laughing it off,
kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it,
or behaving like one."
- Source Unknown
August 25, Wednesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
Waxing moon Wednesday night rituals: Cutting (olive wand and willow staff)
and 2nd
preparation of two (peach, pecan) magickal wands.
Reading and gathering information about olive trees.
"The more you prepare, the luckier you appear."
- Terry Josephson
August 24, Tuesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
A beautiful cloudy cool morning.
Tarot reading this morning: setback, sorrow, slow down, and creativity.
As I took my
morning walk, I reflected on all the setbacks and sorrows of my neighbors and
my
own family. Some were preventable and many not.
The Uhr spell is: Abundant Fertility.
Variety, Creativity, and Fertility are Songs of the Great Goddess.
Hell is a silent dark world where nothing grows.
- Pulling Onions
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
TFFC: weightlifting for 30 minutes, yoga class with Gudrin 75 minutes (5:30 - 6:45).
Reading and gathering tree lore.
August 23, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Mow back lawns and shed rooftop construction.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 11 - 4:30.
Reading: Ways
of the Strega. Italian Witchcraft: Its Lore, Magick and Spells.
By Raven Grimassi. St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Pubs., 1995.
Index,
285 pages. MGC. ISBN: 1567182534.
Reading and gathering information about olive trees.
"Long ago in Greece, King Cecrops established a city.
It was predicted that the city would
become very famous and prosperous. Many gods wanted to become the special
patrons
of the city. In the end there were two contestants left--Athena
and Poseidon.
To resolve the
conflict each one was supposed to give some kind of a gift to the city, and
whoever
presented the greater gift would win the contest. Poseidon made a (water) spring
appear
in the city and promised a strong navy to the city. Athena made the olive
tree. She told
everyone how olives could be used for food, for cleansing, offerings, to light
fires, and
many other uses. Athena won the contest and the city was called Athens in her
honor."
- Ani's
Greek Mythology
August 22, Sunday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
A beautiful, overcast, cloudy and cool morning walk.
Temperatures have dropped to the low 90's with overcast skies.
Finally - just a little taste of autumn.
Reading and gathering tree lore.
Reading the exercise book:
Jump
Rope Training. Techniques and Programs for Improved Fitness and
Performance. By Buddy Lee. Champaign, Illinois, Human Kinetics,
2003.
Index, 156 pages. MGC. ISBN: 0736041516.
August 21, Saturday, 2004
Teach Taijiquan at TFFC from 9:30-11.
Yoga class with Sam from 11 - 12:30.
New shed construction work and garage remodel project.
Lots of watering because the irrigation ditch has been running full since Friday
morning.
Continue to read and gather tree lore.
Started evening project to dress tree wounds on lower trunk bark
and paint them white. Heat blisters and insects have damaged
some of our trees. Hopefully, we will be able to save some of
them. We lost two fruit trees to fireblight this summer.
August 20, Friday, 2004
CUESD
work from 7:30-4:30. A very hot day, and little air conditioning
in
the library. The heat really tired me out by the late afternoon.
Continue to read and gather tree lore.
Reading: Ways
of the Strega. Italian Witchcraft: Its Lore, Magick and Spells.
By Raven Grimassi. St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Pubs., 1995.
Index,
285 pages. MGC. ISBN: 1567182534.
August 19, Thursday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
CUESD work, 9:00 - 4:30 pm today. I will be working part-time as
the
Technology
and Media Services Supervisor for CUESD until June 5, 2005.
Normally, I work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7:30 to 4:30,
although my schedule is flexible.
TFFC: weightlifting for 30 minutes (start one leg presses and lifts), yoga
class
with Gudrin 75 minutes.
Music: Beethoven's string quartets Op. 18, No. 6 and
Opus 59, No. 1 (Razumovsky) by the Cleveland Quartet.
Reading and writing about trees.
August 18, Wednesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 35 minutes at dawn.
Very hot today - 103 degrees.
Back to work for the Corning Union Elementary School District today.
I will again work 24 hours, 3 days, a week as the Technology
and Media Services Supervisor
for CUESD. Home work projects will now be de-emphasized.
TFFC: weightlifting for 30 minutes (start one leg presses and lifts), yoga
class
with Lauren for 75 minutes.
I listen to music when I'm reading, writing, surfing the net, and
relaxing.
I favor string quartet music, and have a substantial audiotape and CD
collection of string quartets. Lately, I have been listening to J. S.
Bach's
Art of the Fugue by the Julliard String Quartet, and the a number of my
favorites on audiotape from the Cronos Quartet, e.g., White Man Sleeps.
"Worthy of mention also, in Leland's Book [Charles
Leland, Magic and Occult Remedies, 1892]
is the story about the walnut witches. Manuscripts from old witch trials
in Italy speak of this
walnut tree which (it is said) had always been there and was in leaf all year
long. For centuries,
legends were told of the great witch gatherings in the town of Benevento, at the
site of an ancient
walnut tree. In the year 662 A.D., Saint Barbato converted the Duke of
Benevento (a pagan) to
Christianity and had the tree cut down. The witches replanted the walnut
tree from seed, and
legend says it still stands in Benevento. Bottles of Strega Liguore,
manufactured in Benevento
today, bear labels upon which appears the old walnut tree with a group of
witches and satyrs
dancing around it." This activity was associated with the worship of
the Goddess Diana.
- Raven Grimassi, Ways of the Strega, 1995, p. 11
Reading and writing about trees.
August 17, Tuesday, 2004
Hard outdoor work and construction project in the early morning.
Temperatures
expected to go into the upper 90's today.
Shopping for building materials, books, and art objects in Chico this afternoon.
Yoga class for 75 mintues with Gudrin at TFFC.
Reading and writing about trees.
I usually get 2 or 3 emails each day from people reading a webpage
published by Green Way Research.
Jim from Bend, Oregon, wrote: "I came across your website today
and was
filled with awe and gratitude. Thank you for all the work you've put into
it.
It has inspired me to keep up the practice of the forms."
"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success
does not
depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon
the ever
lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you
have taken hold."
- A. B. Meldrum
August 16, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Standing meditation.
Attended the Gerber School Board Meeting tonight. I told them I was
not going to continue to serve as a Board member in 2005. I now have
three more meetings to attend.
Karen and I put up a new trundle bed in south bedroom. We are both now
working on indoor home improvement projects.
Reading quite a bit about tree
lore.
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering
away at his rock perhaps a
hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred
and first blow it will split
in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone
before."
- Jacob Riis
August 15, Sunday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Teach Taijiquan and Qigong for 90 minutes at home to a private
student.
Work on garage cleanup, reorganization, and painting.
Lots of reading about the Four Elements and Magikal
practices.
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness
than the discovery of a new star."
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
August 14, Saturday, 2004
Reading in the early morning. I enjoyed looking at my collection of icons,
totems,
art objects, natural objects, and miniature sculptures this morning.
A pleasant walk at dawn - I chatted with neighbors. .
Teach Taijiquan and Qigong for 90 minutes at TFFC.
Attend Yoga class for 90 minutes at TFFC led by Sam (Cynthia) - she told
us
she was resigning as the Saturday Yoga teacher. If only I had taken
the
training this summer!!!
The grapes, peaches, tomatoes, and figs are ripening. Karen made some
tasty fig
preserves. We worked outdoors late in the evening. I made a eight
spoked wheel,
a Buddhist Dharma Wheel, out of grape and birch cuttings.
August Sunset in the Great Valley
Vahana Carries a Dharma Wheel. Vahana is a mythical bird, a
cosmic bird,
a cosmic goose or swan, featured in Indian art. Vahana carries the Indian
Creator God, Brahma, and Saraswati, his Shakti or life force. Refer to my
notes in the webpage on Wild
Goose Qigong.
Worked on my notes regarding the lore and myths about Trees.
August 13, Friday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Work on indoor home improvement projects!
August 12, Thursday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
"The only way to find the limits of the possible is
by going beyond them
to the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Finish our outdoor work projects!!!! Finally!!!! Horray!!
Begin work on many indoor projects. These indoor projects with take
about six months to complete.
Install ceiling fan in the garage.
Clean up and rearrange garage.
Put together the new piano bench made from pine.
Repairs on our large refrigeration air conditioning unit.
Weightlifting for 30 minutes at TFFC.
Yoga with Gudrin Volpat for 75
minutes
at TFFC.
Magickal reading and experiments. Developing ideas and
layout plan for large oudoor ceremonial circle with a center
firepit and markers for the eight directions.
August 11, Wednesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Painting projects, workbench area construction compelted before 12:20
am.
Over 106 degrees today - everything is heat stressed.
Took some time to visit the Tehama County Library this afternoon and
get books on woodworking, mythology (Joseph Campbell), and
Feng Shui.
My feet are healing well - not problems and all activites cause no pain
or discomfort.
Magickal reading and experiments. I read the Tarot each day:
5 cards from the Wanless' Vogager deck, 3 cards from the Crowley-Harris' deck,
and one card from the Andrew's deck.
Reading works attributed to Trismegistus Hermes (Thoth)
I need to find my old notes on Quaternary Systems and look into expanding
it to Eightfold models.
The Eight Circuits of Consciousness
Timothy
Leary and Robert
Anton Wilson.
August 10, Tuesday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Over 102 degees today - exhausting! .
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and
the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at
hand."
- Vince Lombardi
Prepare bench and area for scrool saw work. Lots of shoveling.
Painting projects.
Go into Maywood office on work assignment.
A large Christian Church on main street (Solano) in Corning (population 4,888)
has a billboard
on which various catchy phrases are placed. Today's statement was
"Under the Same
Management for 2,000 Years." Christians delight in thinking that
their religion and worship
has somehow remained the "same" since the time of Jesus Christ.
When I was young,
my Catholics teachers would make similiar remarks about their religion, even
contending
that the apostle Peter (the rock) was the first Pope. Wiccan worshippers
like to think
their religion is based upon ancient practices that pre-date Greco-Roman myths
and
worship services. The worship of antiquity, claiming an ancient family
line, purporting
to uphold "The Old Ways" is an important aspect of religion - being
yoked to ancient
lore and customs.
Christianity has evolved, changed, metamorphized, and transformed itself over
the centuries.
It has not been under the "same management" by person (Jesus,
Apostles, Pope, Saints),
place (Jerusalem, Rome, London), or thing (Book). To think so is a
false belief, and
a delusion of spirit. History confirms the changing nature of all
religions. Since most
people could not read or write for many centuries, and verbal lore is
transformed every
four generations, we simply forget the past mistakes, stupidities, cruelties,
and
botched religious byways.
Magickal reading and experiments.
August 9, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
"Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from philosophers is
insights,
whether he comes
by them consistently or not."
- Stephen Vizinczey
Carpentry work to finish outdoor shed project and outdoor work
bench.
Set up scrool saw on a new low bench. Started my first project- an eight spoked wheel,
a Dharma Wheel, and will paint it red.
Painting outdoor sheds and work areas.
We worked outside the whole day.
A breezy day with afternoon temperatures near 100 degrees. More like
a "Red Bluff" summer day than it has been the last week. All our
gardens
are looking quite nice after the heavy irrigation over the weekend.
The vegetable garden is full of fruit, the grapes are ripening, figs are
abundant,
and the last peaches are being picked. Yet, the garden seems quiet
and
fatiqued by the heat. Where are all the garden devas and
fairies?
Criticism of President George W. Bush
This "Resume of George W. Bush" has been
circulating around by
email:
RESUME
GEORGE W. BUSH
The
White House
1600
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
,
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine,
in 1976 for driving under the
influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's
license
suspended for 30 days. My Texas
driving record has been "lost" and is not
available.
Military:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take
a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas
Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in
College:
I graduated from
I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business
in
oil in Texas.
The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father
and
our friends in
the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected
governor of
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF
I changed
Texas
the most polluted state in the
replaced Los
Angeles
as the most smog-ridden city in America.
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas
treasury to the tune of billions
in borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American
history.
With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida,
and my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over
500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT
I
am the first President in U.S.
history to enter office with a
criminal record.
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
billion dollars per week.
I spent the U.S.
surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month period.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
U.S.
stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans
lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S.
history.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S.
President.
I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best
friends, Kenneth
Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S.
History - Enron.
My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
ensure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating
the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the
biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S.
history and refused
to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S.
history.
I changed the
government contracts.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any
President in U.S.
history.
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in
the history of the
I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S.
history.
I am the first President in U.S.
history to have the United Nations
remove the U.S.
from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S.
from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspector's access to
detainees, and have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002
I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any
President since the advent of television.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year
period. After taking off the entire month of August 2001, I presided over
the worst security failure in U.S.
history.
I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S.
after the World Trade
Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S.
the most hated
country in the world --- the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people),
shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
I am the first President in
preemptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I
did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S.
citizens,
and the world community.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in
duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.
In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
attacking
I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans
(71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a
WMD.
I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to
justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES
All records of my tenure as governor of
library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
public review.
PLEASE
CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004!
August 8, Sunday, 2004
Mow lawns and clean up in the cool early moring hours.
Continue watering from irrigation ditch water all day.
Teaching Taijiquan (108 Long Form) to Greg. We worked out at my home from
10 am - 11:30 pm. Introductory conversation and
preparation.
A very hot day - 100 degrees. We read and relaxed indoors.
The heat really seemed to sap my strength today.
Posted notes and links to the new Green Wizard webpage.
August 7, Saturday, 2004
"Let your character be kept up until the very end, just as it began, and
so be consistent."
- Horace
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Taught 90 minute Tai Chi class at TFFC.
Trip to Chico for lunch, bookstore, and tools. .
Relax and read in the afternoon.
Sunflower - Chianti Hybrid.
August 6, Friday, 2004
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn. Stunning
sunrise with
broken dark clouds backlit in the West. Clear skies all day due to lower
summertime temperature of 89 degees high.
Working on finishing the carpentry project on the outdoor sheds.
Trip to Redding for building supplies.
Started a Garden Wizard
or Garden Witch webpage.
It will provide links,
quotes, and a annotated bibliography about Green
Witchcraft, Green Religion,
and Green wisdom.
Today I read from the following books:
Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore, and Herb Craft. By Ann
Moura (Aoumiel). St. Paul,
Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 1996. Index, appendices, bibliography,
274 pages.
ISBN: 1567186904. An good introductory text on the way of the old
religion. Insightful
observations on the history of religon by a historian. All aspects of the
Green Craft are
covered: philosophy, magick, rituals, seasonal celebrations, folk lore, herbals,
craft tools, etc.
For Aoumiel, the Green Craft involves pantheism, polytheism, reverence for
nature, non-dogmatic
beliefs and practices, home arts, and mostly solitary practice.
MGC.
Grimoire
for the Apprentice Wizard. By Oberon Zell-Ravenheart. Ranklin Lakes, NJ, New Page Books,
2004. Index, 370 pages. ISBN: 1564147118. A detailed and practical instructional manual
on the way
to become a wizard. Intended for a young reader but useful to
anyone. MGC. An excellent reference
tool.
The Goddess and the God
The Lady and the Lord
Yin and Yang
Water-Earth and Sun-Sky
August 5, Thursday, 2004
"Absolutes squirm beneath realities.
There is not much to say about the "Unknown."
Your garden will do for you in proportion to what you do for it.
Watering is the practice of gentleness."
- Pulling Onions,
Michael Garofalo
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
- Oscar Wilde
No walking, yoga, qigong or work all day - time for healing my toe.
Reading, writing and relaxation all day at home.
August 4, Wednesday, 2004
"The Way has its reality and its signs
but is without action or form.
You can hand it down but you cannot receive it,
you can ignore it but you cannot see it.
It is its own source, its own root.
Before heaven and earth existed it was there,
from the ancient times.
It gave spirituality to the spirits and to God,
it gave birth to heaven and to earth.
It exists beyond the highest point,
and yet you cannot call it lofty;
it exists beneath the limit of the six directions,
and yet you cannot call it deep.
It was born before heaven and earth,
and yet you cannot say it has been there for long,
it is earlier than the earliest time,
and yet you cannot call it old."
- The Crookbacked Woman and the Sage
Chuang Tzu, Translated by Burton Watson, 1964
Crone
Taoism
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Work outdoors on mower equipment and gardening tools shed.
Watering and garden improvements.
Relax and read in the afternoon.
Appointment with podiatrist about my injured toe. I ripped the
nail on my big right toe from its nailbed when I climed Mt. Lassen.
The toenail area has been black and blue for weeks, and bloody
beneath the nail. Dr. Swaim removed this injured toenail. It will
take four to six months to grow back.
Weightlifting for 30 minutes and then 60 minutes of yoga class with Lauren.
August 3, Tuesday, 2004
"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine,
and more complicated that we can conceive."
- Goethe
Complexity - Quotations for Gardeners
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Work outdoors on mower equipment and gardening tools shed.
Watering and garden improvements.
Relax and read in the afternoon.
Weightlifting for 30 minutes and then 75 minutes of yoga class with Gudrin Volpat.
August 2, Monday, 2004
"The essential ingredient in a temenos is the perimeter that marks
out the space, whether by a wall, a fence, a hedge of flowers and
bushes, or some rocks that only imply the full perimeter. Having
crossed the border, we find ourselves in a special place where
certain things happen and other things do not."
- Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, p. 293
Walking, Qigong, and Taijiquan for 120 minutes at dawn.
Work outdoors on mower equipment and gardening tools shed.
Watering and garden improvements.
Reading books on wizardry, Wicca, and magick.
Grimoire
for the Apprentice Wizard. By Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
Ranklin Lakes, NJ, New Page Books, 2004. Index, 370 pages.
ISBN: 1564147118. A detailed and practical instructional manual
on the way to become a wizard.
August 1, Sunday, 2004
"Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why
attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself,
or desire to be see. What could be more complicated than a rose for
someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for
someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity
of beholding."
- Andre Comte-Sponville, A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, p.
150
Simplicity - Quotations for Gardeners
Ecstasy Zone Day: 6am - 4pm.
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