Late Entry: My Excellent Day in San Francisco with Mike 7/30/09

More Orb

Sorry for my lapse. I've been dilatory with contentment. I'm house sitting for a sweet family in Los Altos. The night before they left for vacation, amidst the packing fuss, they paused to look at some pictures of a wedding they had just attended. They looked so beautiful I grabbed my camera.  I wasn't the only one drawn to this beautiful moment...check out the orb in the first picture.

Lucy in the Sky With Orb

Quotes I Like

“Vision isn’t enough unless it’s combined with venture. It’s not enough to stare up the steps unless we also step up the stairs.” (Vince Havner)

“My life has no mortgage” (Six Feet Under) 

“The enormous audacity with which he seized on the situation in which I place him, and made it the pedestal on which his vanity mounted for the one cherished purpose of self display, mastered my astonishment by main force.” (Wilke Collins, "The Woman in White")  

“It’s better to be in the meshpucha than oyzmechutin.”   (Elinor Goodman)

“Believing that thought patterns are a solid self is the source of our bewilderment and suffering.” (Sakyong Mipham, “Turning the Mind into an Ally”)

“Imagine yourself without questions. Put yourself in her place. She had no questions. She merely, only, waited. This was her wonder: not to predetermine, not to say it will be thus and so – not to know. She did not demand to know, Carl Gustav.  And you demand to know. This way, you are a monster.” (Timothy Findlay, “Pilgrim”) 

Some Pretty Things

On A Bridge in San Diego