Tonight’s wanderings. Last week was Salmon Hole. This is Old Red Mill. Both are spots along the Winooski River. Non-winter is just so much bigger and full of surprises.

Saturday night. The world is so much bigger in not-winter…

Not so long ago I asked my brother what he was drinking lately, what he was listening to lately, what he was reading lately. Since then, I’ve taken up dry Riesling, re-read the SILMARILLION, and added some lute music to my nano. I’m still not him.

Electric blanket, Ambien, oatmeal… the holy triumvirate of comfort, that carry me through the best 12 hours of my 24-hour day.

Happiness is also, for the other 12:

Brand spankin’ new Sunday papers.

Books

Meal planning, food shopping, cooking, eating, eating at restaurants

Programming, debugging, when something works, when something doesn’t work and you figure out how to make it better, when something doesn’t work and you’ve discovered something important that saves the US economy

Contrarian viewpoints, philosophy & ethics, deep human history, big picture thinking

2023 – Yellowstone

2024 – Total solar eclipse

Two life-changing experiential years in a row. Though I guess every experience is technically life changing.

If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

This is a line from a song in SOUTH PACIFIC. It was also something my Aunt Alice used to say, back when I Was Very Young, and she wanted to encourage me to dream big.

All that you touch

All that you see

All that you taste

All you feel

And all that you love

And all that you hate

All you mistrust

All you save

And all that you give

And all that you deal

And all that you buy

Beg borrow or steal

And all you create

And all you destroy

And all that you do

And all that you say

And all that you reap

And everyone you meet

And all that you spite

And everyone you fight

And all that is now

And all that is gone

And all that’s to come

And everything under the sun is in tune,

When the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Behold the garden, in all its glory!!!!!!!!