zits... journals... climate weather... '65 and beyond.

Weather or not... TS Ivo...                                                           August 2013

 Post #30 yesterday... lets see the best way to explain that one... oh wait i got it... it was like a blackhead/zit on my face that i just noticed/saw, so yes i was looking in the mirror, an i had to squeeze it right then and get it out... (-:    yes it was a big one and it left a hole, or enlarged pore, but its gone and i look and feel much better. Venting is such great relief... it's gone done and over with... move on, get a life and stop whinging and get on with it. 

"Those of us that keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in our daily lives... a journal is a way of counting our blessings and leaving an inventory of those blessing for our posterity." 
President Spencer W. Kimball

Keeping a journal is a great daily tool, write/draw thoughts, ideas, events, and insights of the day, you can forget it, free brain space, and come back reread, write more and remember without encumbering all those brain cells, along with keeping an active engaged mind... and who knows where that might lead. 
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, give fully!!!!
What a great monsoon season we are having... the daily cloud shows are breath taking... i love this time of year, and we have been getting a fair amount of moisture this season. Concern about climate change "gives an excuse by government to control human activity, meaning our lives and our freedoms." Climate change has been going on for hundreds and thousands of years, cycle after cycle, it's not all humanities fault, even the science guys can't agree on whats happening. "You can't affect global warming simply by buying a Prius and adjusting the thermostat." Spend $$$$ in the "right" way and get a warm fuzzy feeling that ya done something good... yup put $$$$ in someone else's pocket!

Sharpen-up...                                                                                      August 2013

Well the "Boys of 65" are after me again... my fifty year HS graduation is coming up in 2015. so far i have stayed under the radar, a few know where i'm at but i am now trying to get them away from my Gov. email and computer system... no reason to give the NSA an interest or fodder... ya know what can happen when a group of retired b-boomers get cut loose from full time work and have no daze-off (-: !! any how aim high and shoot low, no body parts above my head. Besides i don't know that i want to relive those southern California HS days... after all it was "high school" and i did not much care for "school" in those days, except playing football, and i got a new right knee three years back for that experience. Its too crowded down there, and it's not what it was in the "old" days, '55-'70, then i moved north to the Bay Area to go to school again, this time cause i wanted too...  and then got sucked east through Sacramento and on into Southern Utah. So much for the life-line travel log... being a gypsy has been fun, something i got from my military Father and our family... south east to north east, west then north then east then east again to Utah. In between all that a hitch in the Navy took me in circles in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. What a long strange trip it's been... dude who'd o' guessed ?

"There is no such thing as im-material matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter,"  D&C 131:7-8 

Light
Outside bright white sunlight, curtains on windows...
grey filtered sunlight... gray filtered sunlight... 
bright white electric light inside the house of the Lord.

Obtain... education/knowledge... always
we become older weather education or not...
just living this life/test is an education.

Yellowstone...                                                       October 2012

No dragging fish water about the yard this monday... rained all night, most of the morning and some this afternoon... wet.
From post #30: not sure what M&M logic is... but M&M therapy is: one hand full out on the desk... three at a time into mouth, not the same color... suck and allow to melt hard shell, guess the colors... enjoy the slight bitter taste... dream and repeat as needed.
This world is a great place... don't get caught up in it... you only get this experience once use it wisely and well.

Richard!! supper's ready... Yes.

CHEERS

Your not leaving this house in those pants...

8/24/2013 Clouds                                                                      August 8 2013

...and why not they look just like all the "fake worn" jeans that everybody wears these days... but i been out digging potatoes and my pants are wet to the ankles from washing the dirt/mud off my shoes and the potatoes... and yes i did carry the dug up plants to the compost pile and i may have wiped my hands once or twice but that was on the back side of my pant legs... those pants are dirty!! no worse then the pre-washed jeans every body wears these days... never the less you are not leaving this house in those pants.
Wow!! this is all starting to sound like M&M logic to me...
"I'm concerned that the info didn't get put in the bulletin this week.... Is there a reason why?" ( i am a human a dult, at least the last time i looked at my birth date and in the mirror this morning...) well of course there is a reason... ididnotgettheinformationtothepersonintime.

M&M logic, heavy on the blue side... not sure exactly what that logic is but they sure taste good, a little on the bitter side, that's an acquired taste, for milk chocolate but that hard coating on the outside means they don't melt in your hands, unless you hold them in your clinched fist real tight, but they last in your mouth and melt slow through the hard coating, allowing time to think about the reason your eating chocolate in the first place... no day is a good day without chocolate.
I did change my pants and put on a shirt with a collar before i left the house. no more concerns, the info was in this weeks bulletin... and i am an a dult and i don't have to check the mirror... cause i "feel" like one.  i know i am a child of God.
CHEERS...

Clouds, a spinning sphere, bikes, more clouds...

Kanarraville clouds                                                                          August 2013

 The Family sun day away together, over the "hill" to the west... a hike up into the Kanarra falls/slot canyon... four kids and four adults, funny how all young people still in school i "see" as kids,  made the hike. i sat on a hillside above the parking lot under a tree, reading, viewing and listening to the unfamiliar surroundings of place, trying to get a feel of the place, which we normally just fly past on the freeway going to and from St. George. Small towns/cities abound in southern Utah, with lots still here and many gone... those that still have life can be found to have a mix of the old and new, all abounding with stories, secrets and questions. i find it hard to travel, or better said pass through and out of  places without taking time to discover who and what the place is about. We have one grand child who always referred to leaving her/our home town as going to "other worlds"...  what world is this she would ask?? How true that really is in many ways... the level of knowing and understanding a place, that must be part of why it feels so good to return Home.

The volunteer manning the solar scope at the visitor center this week commented... "i have to keep adjusting this telescope because the sun keeps moving." Now lets think about this one for a minute...
who or what is moving here?... i believe it's us, the earth along with us on it, thats actually doing the moving here. We are not the center... but are on the outside edge of this spinning sphere we call earth. If not for an eternal plan that includes this spinning along with something we call gravity... we would, if we existed at all with all our stuff, be floating out through space, and a different place that would be!
This observation came at the end of a very busy week of metaphors and aha moments...
some of the week felt like hanging on to a rope... then clapping...
the prophet Joseph in liberty jail... "O God, where art thou?..."
The Lord sees us in eternity... we only see us in the now.
The blessing of the Lord is knowledge... the unspeakable gift.

WWJDrive?  in our day and age?                                 

KOM line red canyon...                                        8/7/2013

• still walk...
• ride public transit...
• car pool...
• ride with Peter...
• tour bus
• an old ford station wagon...
• '69 chevy van...
• hitchhike...
• ride a bike...

Day of moving fish water about the yard...
bank, drug store, home , heavens opened...
stop fish water, mix, cool, bake muffins... 

Tour of Utah was the big deal effecting the first part of the week here in southern Utah. Watch the the stage 1 peloton move quickly by on 89 past 12 on it's way to 14 then on to Cedar City. i never rode a bike like that without a crash... with only a half dozen people watching there with me, outside of town seven miles, no cars or traffic on the road... all i could hear was the sound of a hundred plus chains moving over sprockets and skinny tires running along the road surface... the purrr of the peloton, here and then gone in less then ten seconds... something the cheering crowds in SLC did not hear later in the week! The next day the peloton passed through red canyon on Hwy.12, passed the visitor center through the twin tunnels snaking up the canyon past the first KOM at the top of the canyon and sprinting across the plateau toward the finish a hundred plus miles away... i surely never did, or will, ride a bike like that!!

Stage 2 peloton, red canyon                                                                                                                                             08/07/2013

That was my twenty seconds of watching the race live as it passed me twice...  the rest of the week i followed the remaining four stages watching the live stream on the computer from work and home, much more better way to watch a five hundred mile plus bike race. And there was surely a new vocabulary/terminology to be learned by listening to the live commentators!! For example these twenty somethings attack a climb straight up and over... they don't "paperboy it" like i did in my youth!! It's all a race of straight line riding as much as possible, shortest fastest line from A to B... straight... energy to peddle. Back to the real world of the visitor center once the bikes and  their support vehicles got past us, and the road reopened behind them. They say life is like riding a bike you never forget... but not like these guys do! The flip side of that saying... once you learn/accept the Gospel... don't forget it... period.

It's thursday and the week seems like it should be done...
meander about town on way to work, post office, dentist, fs office...
vc front desk dance till shift change, home early, ice cream & movie...

Summer in panguitch about over, road const starts in town...
schools start in a week, vc on cruse till the september rush...
yearly numbers way up, fs office, time sheet, home...

Blue bird skies... bright banks shining in the canyon... morning light...
despicable me 2... cartoon movie is despicably not funny... period
gwashington pieces still coming forward... fifteen bucks so far... great fun.

During a bursting season and after what feels like a very busy week, i get to thinking about what it's all about... This week got a bit deep at times, thinking wise, thought is some of my favorite food. I try to read my scriptures every morning to set the tone for the day, it helps me deal with me and all the different people i come in contact with each day, it grounds me and provides truth for me to come from. I also carry a Book  of Mormon with me in my brief case as a extra boost, along with whatever current book i may be reading over the course of time allowing. I have discovered that creativity is blue-collar WORK...
daily routine and ritual are critical to ideas, they come from all of my life experiences, some good some not so good. A journal/sketch book is a must have, it becomes a store house of ideas to clear the mind now for new to come and to recharge and remember at another time in the future. Writing as in this page for example is a process of venting to also clear the mind and get back to a clear page. Knowledge is a gift of God, i can not always explain it but try to use and apply it wisely every day.

Temptations are like fishing lures... they look great but avoid them... run
electronic scriptures are "funny"... world dependent... batteries are required...
i like them in hand... not in the "cloud"... truth should have heft...

Sunday meetings: concentrated packages of knowledge we must digest...
food for thought... sunday school: call to action... tools to work with...
priesthood...  backslapping brotherhood... to share with people in need.

GREAT sunday evening sunset sky show... good start to a new week...
thanks for sticking around and reading this far... 
take this fodder and chew for awhile if you like... life is an adventure test.

Panguitch sunset...                                                                                                                                                                 8/11/2013

Panguitch skies are more better then Kanarravill skies... but this is home
read a book with pen in hand... mark it up... scriptures are a book...
tip:" fix things you know how to fix"   idea: "associate mastery with optimism."


Cheers on your sojourns...

turn right and keep moving...

south bound river lane , Panguitch, Utah                                                                                                                     July 2013

Always... let something motorized or mechanical go ahead/pass you by so as not to get run over later... yield to them the the right of away... they always seem to be moving faster then i want to go at the time... then turn right and continue making images.

Draw then color inside the lines... think outside the lines

i feel outside the box the box today... radio on, dog at feet

watch the cloud show... pushed by the wind and imagination.

Sad Sack cartoon... honest!! all i did was goof off!!

cleaning marathon going... don't get in the way... i am helpless

try sacks favored thing, sleep... avoid the sarge...

I struggle with living this life most days... something must be right

hail... then rain... heavy for about 30 mins... no garden damage

fs rcvc report... post office... images made... turn right... keep going.

" It is true, we live to die, and we die to live again...

Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later."

Elder Russell M. Nelson May 2011 Ensign P.34

Morning read, Alma 31, V.10 "...continue in prayer and supplication to God daily

that they/we may not enter into temptation."

What a week, front desk dance all four days...

clean stinking restrooms... haul trash... breakdown box's

home to scattered showers... rainbow to the east!

Strange dreams all night... abstract shapes and forms?

patterns... traps... repeating in circles... confusion ??

two am milky way view... moon rise... dog urinate... me too.

New month... zig zag and right hand print... two home grown tomato's

home to panguitch... water garden as wind dies for evening... before sundown

new month... relearn cash register at work... confused and scrambled... !?/<<

"... it is impossible that ye should be ignorant... 

prepare your mind... unto faith and to patience..."

morning read Alma 34:2-3, cool partly cloudy.

Work by frustration this morning, by what others do or don't do...

all information and images to sign designer... now patience...

chicken at henrie's... ice cream at GEM... and the lone ranger with JD.

Birthday shoes for Alexis... orange with blue stripes... Toms one for one

george one dollar bill work... mask, stripes, zig-zags, red right hand...

nuff said, you will never see it on this site... +12percent bigger copies...

i struggle at living this life... therefore i am... 

i must learn to be obedient to the Lord and his gospel 

learn to make this life better... look for the good in struggle.

Write thoughts, ideas, insights... clears my mind for new...

dog flat on the office floor... wind moving leaves and clouds north

new purple haze water bottle... looking for colorful sunset this evening.

my world in change for a minute...                                                                                                                       August 2013
Dog out the house to urinate... i saw mountain blue bird... flash bye
back in the house to draw and color... blue streak...
Cheers... as i go back and work...