This morning during my walk (7706 steps) I met up with Luz and Noelia again during their trek up Calle Esteban Salas to Calle Los Angeles and then back to their place. At the end of their walk, Luz reached into a bush by the road and pulled out a beautiful poinsettia from one […]
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The time has been flying by. For decades now. I’m older than Dad was when he passed away. In two and a half years, I’ll be older than Mom was when she passed on. And in less than five years, I’ll be older than DeForest Kelley, my mentor, when he passed away.
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Desiderata (Here it is recited by Leonard Nimoy.) (And here it is in Spanish.) Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even
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I fell asleep just before 5 pm so I’m wide awake now, seven hours later. May as well jot down some thoughts as they come up since there’s nothing else that I feel like doing right now. I’m not going to be pulling many punches tonight. I’m going to discuss what I believe has
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This morning, just as I was finishing up my 7000-step walk, my neighborhood friends Luz and Noelie appeared on Calle Esteban heading toward Calle Los Angeles heading in my direction. So, I greeted them and reversed course to walk with them to the road and back to their place. During this time, Luz put
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I managed to get a few more images of Grecia feria iguanas today. You’ll see them plus a few videos of them in action below. Marianele drove me to the ATM in Grecia this morning so I could withdraw money and then she drove me to the feria and dropped me off. She wasn’t
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This morning during my walk the phone rang. It was Melaney Phillips of Rainbow Refuge at Villas Escondidas. She may well have the relocation solution I need, plus (hallelujah!!) a renter for the casita I’m in right now so Cat and her husband won’t miss a beat when it comes to receiving rental income.
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So far today I’ve walked 7,000+ steps and visited with my landlady’s three doggies for 45 minutes or so (just down the embankment from my casita) because they were feeling lonely and abandoned. Cat was away for a little while and, since she’s their “pack leader”, they get mournful (yappy and whiny) whenever she leaves
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Happy Birthday to my older sister Laurel in Rochester, Washington. The above picture is the last one taken of us together, and probably always will be. She says she won’t be coming here to visit, and I have no plans to return to the United States (even as a corpse!). But it was
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Damn, I’m buff! This morning as soon as I finished the 7000-step walk and climbed the serious hills to my casita from Calle Esteban Salas to the top of my stair steps, I checked my pulse and blood pressure, to see what they were immediately afterward. My heart rate was 99 and my