“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense.”
ˆ Buddha
“The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
– Carlos Castaneda (b. 1931)
Well today was decent, woke up in my normal amount of pain. Got up and did some of the dishes, but never got them fully finished but got enough dun so that we’d hvae enough for dinner (which is basic that was needed).
Afterwards Norman and I headed out to take Payton and Storm to the dog park to let them run with a friend and in short enjoy some dog time before they needed to work again. After playing around in the park with their friend we piled in the car and went to return a dish from another friend. Continue reading
The day started out alright, then got worse as it went along to degrees.
Woke up in pain nothing new there as in all honestly I don’t remember a pain free wake up in years now. When I finaly got downstaires I relaized that it was going to be a cooler day, so since it was cooler then it has been for several weeks I deicded that today was the day that I was going to tackle the Fridge, something I have been itching to tackle for sevearl weeks but do to the heat didn’t feel was a good idea (not when needing to take things out of the fridge for any length of time of a parishble nature).
Only issue was because of the pain and other issues going on I didn’t feel like I would be able to do it, regardless of how MUCH it was driving me batty that I hadn’t been dun. Finally I gave in and got the rolling chair (comp chair) and started in on cleaning out the fridge, tossing stuff that was past due and in short taking stock of what we had, need and don’t need. Ended up tossing out a little more then I was expecting to toss, mostly old dressing containors that hasn’t been used in months and where now long enough past open date that they needed to be tossed. Continue reading
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
– Iris Murdoch (1919-)