At home: The family that geeks together, stays together
Three members of the Hart Family work at NOAA. Joan and Bobby are currently on ‘lock-out’ while Leslie is on ‘furlough.’
Category: Laura’s Sumatra (Page 16 of 16)
my mixed bag of ideas, reflections, happenings, commentary
Today the movers come to begin the transport of Dad’s things to his new Independent Living apartment. I pulled this quote that’s been behind a magnet on the icebox door for quite sometime, judging from its yellowed appearance. For me it is in keeping with the theme of this blog: The Road Ends, but the Journey Continues. Perhaps it’s message will speak to you. Peace, all.
“We are all pilgrims in this life, and as we trek further down the road, we also become philosophers, so as I retire, here are some of my thoughts – God Bless – Gordon R. Darnell, D.D.S.
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Happiness is not a destination – it’s a way of traveling.
Don’t take life too seriously – it’s only temporary.
Life is difficult, Life is not fair, Life is wonderful.
Life is 10% what you make of it, and 90% how you take it.
He who dies with the most expensive toys – still dies.
The world is full of givers and takers – the takers eat better, but the givers sleep better.”
During natural disasters, life gets interrupted; rudely and profoundly interrupted. The current flooding that is occurring along the entire Front Range of Colorado is no exception to this rule.
Except in Dadland.
Experts are beginning to call the flooding here in Colorado the ‘thousand year flood’ and I tend to believe them. While flash flooding tends to be a normal component to living in the West, this one has many elements which are unique. Not the least of which is getting half the total annual moisture in a mere 24-48 hours; then doing a rerun scenario after a 12 hour respite. Western land and soilscape is simply unable to absorb such massive rainfall.
In addition, this flooding is not isolated to any one canyon, or stream, or floodplain. It is occurring in multiple places throughout the entire Front Range simultaneously. It is like having the 1969 Boulder Basin Flood, the Big Thompson Canyon Flood of 1976 and any other epic floods you can recall, occurring all at once, and then some. And of course, once the waters recede, huge boulders, tons of mud and assorted debris will be left behind along with the devastation of individual households, vehicles and lives.
I get it, this is serious business.
And then there’s Dad. Continue reading
The obvious answer to this is of course, ‘Why not?’ I, however, could think of many reasons ‘why not’ whenever it was suggested to me to begin blogging. The biggest one being: anybody and their uncle can write anything and put it up into the nether-land of cyberspace for all to see regardless of quality.
And then I remembered that was one of the main reasons I’d balked at recording my first cd. As a working musician, I’d done demos and was busy with gigging, teaching and performing. After all, anybody and their uncle can record anything for all to hear regardless of quality; it is all so easy to do these days…
Aha!
So that’s a good reason to disregard this idea of starting up a website blog?
I think not. Continue reading