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I do not know about you, but life has been rather intense the past few weeks around here – I thought I could use a good laugh. This one came into my inbox this week and it did indeed make me laugh – several times. Clever fellow and great comeback: A man boarded a plane [...]
Thu, June 9 2011 » Inspiration » No Comments
I saw this wonderful blog post by Paul Coelho about writing a story in 6 words and in 30 minutes he had over 350 stories in his comments section all within 6 words and all very expressive. See the blog post here: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2011/06/01/a-story-in-6-words-uma-historia-em-6-palavras/ I thought I would follow this fine example and write a Blog [...]
Thu, June 2 2011 » Inspiration » No Comments
By Patricia I feel honored to have been chosen to read this book and share it with you on my blog. No marketing group held this one up for me to read, this book offer came from the author himself and Harper Publishing sent me a copy to read at his request. It was a [...]
Thu, April 21 2011 » Inspiration » No Comments
By Lisa Shoreland Sometimes delight just comes right into the inbox, and such is the case of my guest writer for today.Lisa Shoreland was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan and is fluent in English and Japanese. She came to the USA to attend St. Andrews Presbyterian College and studied creative writing, history, politics and [...]
Thu, April 14 2011 » Discoveries, Inspiration » No Comments
Cascade Bicycle Club’s new newsletter arrived and it had just a giant pannier load of spring information. I have gotten in a couple of bike rides already this year as the weather warms up. What I found most interesting was the Streetfilm.org site and I watched Stephanie’s Story in San Francisco right away. Then I [...]
Thu, March 24 2011 » Inspiration, On the Road » No Comments
In Taos, New Mexico a group of folks built a community of Earthships Housing. Most were designed by architect Michael Reynolds and reported on in Low Tech Magazine in 2007. “An Earthship is a completely self-sufficient house that has a natural temperature regulation, without the use of a heating system. The building also generates its [...]
Thu, March 10 2011 » Inspiration, Products, Reading » No Comments
You may already be aware of McDonough’s work and talents and I have read his book a number of years ago. I thought it was important to share his ideas again and so sought out his 2007 TED lecture to share with you and to challenge myself. “If design is our Intention – what is [...]
Thu, February 24 2011 » Inspiration, Reading » No Comments
One of my favorite biking routes takes me to the country south of my home. It is a stunning ride and we see lots of the flora and fauna and usually a number of animals. We turn and change directions at the Centralia Steam Plant. We have legislation in our State House right now which [...]
Thu, February 10 2011 » Discoveries, Inspiration, On the Road » No Comments
I saved my vacation days to enjoy my family’s visit over this past holiday season. Over many years now my kids and I have gone cross country skiing on Christmas Day. It has been refreshing and renewed my spirits each year. This year my daughters bought me skis, poles and boots and my partner knit [...]
Thu, January 6 2011 » Inspiration » 1 Comment
This is not about the bicycle part of my adventures; this is about the green endeavors. Our 33 year old refrigerator, out in the garage for garden produce as the freezer part never worked well, really gave up the ghost and some kind of liquid (Freon?) all over the floor. We called the Appliance store [...]
Thu, July 15 2010 » Discoveries, Inspiration » No Comments
