Something to think about

 

I like to re-read this every once in a while.

Creative people need time to

just sit around and do nothing.

If you're out of ideas, wash the dishes.

Take really long walk. Stare at a

spot on the wall for as long as you can.

Austin Kleon

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Bobby Burns said it well...the best laid plans...

This is where I'm moving in a week in hopes of having drier air to breathe. Mmm, whenever the smoke clears, that is. 

This warning was published June 28. It is not likely to be better when I arrive in Durango at the end of July. (at the bottom of the map) Yes, my apartment has air conditioning. Thank heavens. 

My son's house does not. But he is able to deal with high temperatures by closing up everything during the day, and opening it up at night. He has had high winds, which fortunately don't come from the areas where fires are burning.

View of a wildland fire with smoke blowing to northeast.

Thanks MC Escher, for this lovely transition.

"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

 -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968

This is the first job I had after college. A flying waitress. Other women had the time of their lives. Sometimes I did, but mainly I didn't. Not Pan Am's fault though!

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