Sunday Afternoon

Well, the weekend is winding down, and it's been a fuller weekend than normal, primarily because I've stayed downtown instead of going down to Tacoma which saved me at least 3 hours every morning. Today, I read about 40 pages of the book I purchased yesterday, The World We Have, and admittedly, want to do more personally to make the world a safer, more peaceful, more sustainable place to live. As in the captioned below the heading of chapter 1 notes. "The bellls of minfulness are calling out to us, trying to wake us up, reminding us to look deeply at our impact on the planet." In paragraph 2, "All of us know that our beautiful green planet is in danger. Our way of wlaking on the Earth has a great infludence on animals and plants. Yet we act as if our daily lives have nothing to do with the condition of the world..." This is day 3 of my eating vegetarian, and I'm hoping I can stretch that out over many many more days. One of things I've observed about myself this past weekend, is although I am clearly aware of the impact of my own personal actions, and particularly the damages we are causing the earth by depending our cars propelled by fossil fuels, my minds is always daydreaming about owning a Escalade, or other big SUV. It's nearly a nightly thought. Yet, I'll then find myself admiring someone who is "self propelling" there way around. Today, I was up in the U-District, sitting in the window of the UW Bookstore flipping through magazines, when I observed a graceful looking, silver haired, woman, approach the bike stands beneath the window where I was sitting, out of a shoulder bag, one of those re-usable grocery tots, she pulled out a bike helmet, and then unlocked a bike, to ride off. I noticed how clear her complexion looked, how she appeared to have a few less of the aging winkles around her eyes and chics.. She appeared to be middle to late 60's, and healthy, fit, and living a conscious lifestyle..... Seeing her, I reflected on my dreams, my thoughts the night before, of the large SUV I was imagining buying.....naw, I'm simply going for the bike. Living a self-propelled lifestyle is almost scrary. Being single, I fear, what is some prospective female going to think of a 50 year old male without a car, without a mortgage, without some many of the typical material things of our American psyche going to think.... Oh well, at 50 I can simply continue being me and doing those things I believe are right for me to do...hopefully, love will someday find it's way to my eyes.

Summer 2009

Wow, it's been a long time since I've been into this blog. I'm still living and working in Seattle. Over the past several months I've become keenly interested in Buddhism and Veganism, principally due to the moral precepts and my interest in mediation and health. Over the weekend I bought a book by Thich Nhat Hanh, THE WORLD WE HAVE, a Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology. I look forward to reading it. The nice thing about it, it's small enough to fit in my back pocket of my jeans, so I can carry around with me. My adventures in Veganism are slow at best, wherein I may eat vegan 1-2-3-4-5 days, but then stumble and eat meat, but I allow myself these stumbles and I develop my new life path and direction. It's the same with my interest in being self-propelled yet having desires to own a SUV. I search the web looking at Escalades and Range Rovers, while reading momentum magazines. It will be interesting what my next blog may reveal about this journey.