Hello! — microuniverseart I have shared Olimpia's line drawings before, but I am mesmerized by how much she can convey with minimal use of lines. What an artist! She has an awesome blog with some great music too. Check it out.
September 2020
Sweat
onAt my heaviest, I weighed 272 pounds. Perhaps, I was wider than taller at that point. I dropped to 260 and then stayed there for years. Just before the fire, I got down to 254, but right after the fire I went back up to 266. When I entered the hospital last year for emergency [...]
Hands On
on"Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wresled in vain." Carl Jung, The Transcendent Function in Collected Works Vol 8 Although, I often seem to have good insights into others and their problems. I can be completely blind to my own issues. When faced with a feeling of [...]
My Blog
onJust letting the mind go where it wants to... https://youtu.be/O13hmkQFbks
Aunties
onMy mother and father divorced when I was a year old or so and I went to live with my 18 year old mother, where she grew up, in Yosemite at the 'Indian Village' with my great grandmother. It was just a cabin, with no bathroom, at the base of El Capitan. There were several [...]
My Happy Place
onBeing at certain places make me very happy. One of those places is the western slopes and the summits of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, particularly in Lake Tahoe/Donner Lake region. I read a blog recently about what the author describes as our spiritual homelands. These are places that seem to touch our souls. We may [...]
Pumpkin Pie? (a picture says a 1,000 words)
on(I left the photos out of this post previously because I am getting old and feeble of mind. I inserted them now. Sorry! - thanks Mr. Atkins!) Well, it was time today to start getting the pumpkins moved out of their weed infested garden. I have no idea how much that one weighed next to [...]