(photo P Volker)
The barometer climbs. The sky is blue. What else could go right? I am pretty sure Catherine is off on a little hiking trip with Dana and a guy with some llamas, pack llamas. So I have to do our church alone here today.
I am so happy for some routines that give some structure to my life these days. Little deadlines are here and there to be met. Otherwise I’m afraid my day would be a big mush.
Yesterday I completed the soil tests on our four different plots of land dedicated to growing food and flowers. Afterward I called up my buddy Herb, the land guy, to put orders in for lime and fertilizers. The lime goes on this Fall and the others go on in April. We had some pretty big failures of crops this year and we can’t blame it all on the year 2020. Time to feed the land and regroup.
Our soil situation so mirrors other aspects of my life now that I think about it. Remember back about a year ago when I realized that I was so
focused on my cancer that I had been neglecting other needs of my body. And I felt so much better when I addressed those. And my beloved truck was the same, as long as it went forward and stopped that seemed good enough. But then too many small things were adding up to make the situation unworkable so it took me two weeks and some treasure to get that all fixed. Now with the land I have concentrated an some aspects without worrying about others. And that works for a while until it doesn’t.
And come to think of it maybe that is the same with our society. We have concentrated on certain aspects and disregarded others. And that works until it doesn’t. Time to rebuild to achieve the proper balance. Bu it is opportunity to be seized though rather than doom and gloom to be endured. There were some beautiful and haunting words that were on Face Book from an indigenous woman describing our current situation. She said in times like these life can either appear as a hole or a portal. You get sucked down into the hole and die or you cross through the portal to something on the other side. She teaches us that this has happened before to peoples so we are not alone in this. It can be done.
through the portal with you loves, Felipé.
Hi boss,
We do this all the time, don’t we? We focus on an area of our lives that is calling at the time with urgency, and if the urgency becomes more like a high demanding long-term issue, it ends taking all our attention and we just forget what is outside, and some other times, we end choosing (unconsciously obviously!) to keep that way because we are so used that it doesn’t take lots of energy any more… (among other 100 reasons!)
I was thinking on a couple things related to this just these days… one of them was this idea of the things that are already available for us, but we have not yet combined… for example, until someone connected a certain shape with the characteristics of air, we were not able to fly… And the other thing I was thinking of is that I always seem to try to fix whatever I have to fix with the same tools I have… at times, I find myself even getting mad at the fact that I cannot make a screw go into the wall with a hammer instead of a screwdriver… (as if it should work!!!!)
I think the invitation continues to be “think outside the box”… the “tools” box, the “this-is-how-we-do-things” box, the “this-is-how-things-have-always-been” box, the “we-cannot-reinvent-the-wheel” box, etc…
The only thing that should remain unchanged is love.
Love is Love loves,
Cris
Cris ~ love this. We must all strive to be more creative with our efforts. The easy old ways are not going to work any more. Will try and go further on this today. Thanks, Felipé.x
Barometers climb I think with the air pressure and altimeters work in a similar way.i have an altimeter I bought in Gibraltar about 12 years ago but I never get to test it living at sea level.since the mycosis fungoides began attacking my feet they get too sore to go trooping up rocky mountains although last year I did get up some urban mountains in Amman, Jordan, Jebel Amman being the highest at 1100m/3609′ but sadly I wasn’t packing my altimeter.another interesting weather device is the Fitzroy Storm Glass invented by a Royal Navy admiral called Fitzroy.some debate over the storm glass but it definitely alters but it might be temperature causing this.hard to see how it can be air pressure as the material is in a sealed glass tube.i was reading an interesting little article somewhere about the atmosphere and how we take it for granted yet we can only live in the tiny thin film of the troposphere above that even our own atmosphere; the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere would kill us in minutes let alone deep space.
Kevan ~ yes, the altimeter measures changes in barometric pressure. So as the altimeter goes up physically it can tell you how far by how much the barometric pressure changes. All due to the air pressure being lower at higher altitude. I sound like Mr Wizard. Yes, we are deeply indebted to our atmospheric setup. It is the holiday Labor Day here. Do you have that in England. Felipé.
No we don’t have Labor Day here but they had the late summer holiday on the last Monday in August.they spell it Labour here and put a u behind such words ie/colour, harbour,etc..I understand in the USA the u was dropped around the 1850s under Webster’s liguistic guidance as he thought that English had been too corrupted by French so wished to take it closer to it’s Germanic routes.funnily enough in Canada both varieties are in use and one person might write centre and another center.i saw an interesting sign in Aukland, New Zealand as few years ago which said: to city centre and Britomart Center!
Kevan ~ language is so immensely interesting. I remember trying to drive for the first time in Ireland on the left side. The roundabouts were particularly diabolical with going the “wrong way” and everything had two road signs, one in English and one in Gaelic. I trashed that rental car and they gave me another on. Language in action. Felipé.
Yes Gaelic is spoken in Ireland and Scotland .In Ireland it’s just called Irish and in Scotland Gaelic or Scots Gaelic.i understand that the two are just mutually intelligible sort of like Dutch and Afrikaans.i remember being on a bus on a beautiful sunny day on the island of Lewis/Harris in the outer Hebrides and some of the passengers speaking in it.i climbed up a mountain,An Clisham(799m/2621′) and the view was amazing of the dragons teeth of mountains on the mainland and Skye.then out west deep in the Atlantic you could make out the abandoned island of St Kilda. There’s a third branch of Gaelic, Manx, spoken on the Isle of Man a large island between Ireland and England but I think that it’s almost extinct.the Manx also have cats without tails!related but from a slightly different root are Welsh, Cornish and Bretton infact Welsh is the most commonly spoken of the Celtic languages followed by Bretton Irish ,Scots Gaelic, Manx and lastly Cornish.in Wales it’s common to hear Welsh spoken particularly in the west and north.Cumbric was the Celtic language spoken in northern England but is now extinct and no revival attempts seem to have been made?
Kevan ~ I suppose there is not much call to keep that all alive. Would be a labor of love. Felipé.
It’s sort of national pride keeping those languages alive and legally is the first language in Ireland although about 98 percent of people speak English as their first language!in Scotland it’s even less.Welsh is different and I think that 23 percent of people speak it as a first language but they know English too.in France Bretton has no official standing so it’s not really known how many speak it but it’s thought to be second to Welsh.my mother’s family where Irish so I expect that they could speak Gaelic.