I spent a wonderful Thanksgiving Day in Palm Desert, Calif. with my dear friend Sandy, her sister Nancy, Nancy’s husband Charlie, and four of Sandy’s friends.
We ate and drank too much, toasted, celebrated, hugged each other, and pampered her two cats. Charlie played golf. I took a long stroll through the perfectly-groomed grounds. We talked [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Bless this day
Posted in Family & Friends on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanksgiving Day!
Posted in Family & Friends on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The word ‘appreciate’ means to recognize what makes something or someone unique and distinctive, where the value of the thing or the person comes from.
We can learn to appreciate music, or painting, or rocks, or dolphins. We can learn to appreciate coming together.
We came together for Thanksgiving dinner at Lin’s house in 2006. That is [...]
Animal friends
Posted in Scene through my viewfinder on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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The calendars are ready!
Posted in Art, Family & Friends, tagged RAG AZ, RAG AZ 2010 calendar, Rescue a Golden on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Rescue-A-Golden 2010 calendar is now available for sale just in time for the peak gift-giving season.
My photos are featured in February , March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December.
Each page measures 8.5 by 11 inches, and they are printed on heavy paper.
In addition to the pictures of gorgeous dogs, the calendar [...]
Getting sentimental about cold weather
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got feeling sentimental about cold weather today, so I plunged into E. B. White’s essay titled, appropriately enough, Cold Weather.
Mr. White is famous for noticing little things that matter. He wrote, “It is rather soothing when existence is reduced to the level of a woodbox that needs filling, a chink that needs plugging, a [...]
What to write about
Posted in Books, Blogs & Films, Family & Friends on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friends who blog, or who are thinking about it, or who need to but aren’t thinking about it, tell me they wonder what they should write about—were they to write something.
I have it on good authority that you should write about what you care about. That is not exactly the same as the old [...]
Yvette flew to LA this morning
Posted in Family & Friends on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yvette took a Southwest flight to Los Angeles this morning to visit her cousin Yvonne. I took this photo in June 2009. At the time Yvonne was going through an experimental treatment in hopes of putting her cancer into remission. You wouldn’t know that from looking at her.
In spite of everyone’s best efforts her condition [...]
Should we “home school” college kids?
Posted in In the News, Management on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The University of California system is hammering students with massive increases in tuition and fees. Since California is going broke, this is understandable. For many students these increases are likely to be prohibitive, however. Thus the increases will shrink the student population, and that will mean layoffs for faculty and staff. It’s a vicious cycle.
It [...]
What can I give thee?
Posted in Family & Friends on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yvette has always referred to Yvonne as her cousin, though they are not actually related. Tonight, after a long and intense battle with cancer, Yvonne struggles with pneumonia in a hospital room in California. The pneumonia is the result of a chronic decline in her powers.
Dear Yvette sheds tears several times a day over this.
Yvette’s [...]
Permission to speak
Posted in Art, Books, Blogs & Films on November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have had a considerable amount of experience lately inviting people to speak out. I’ve learned a few things by doing this, and they might be of interest to you.
I won’t name names in deference to people who are searching for their own permission to speak.
One fellow told me that he hesitates even to comment on my [...]
