wet sandals

thoughts on wet sandals

     for swimming with great dane  --  great dane swims?
            sandals hold an immense amount of sand
                fantastic buy at goodwill a million years ago
                          Jesus shoes, can you walk on water?

Origin: 

1350–1400; Middle English sandell  < Medieval Latin sandalum  <Late Greek sántalon,  dissimilated variant of sándanon  ≪ Sanskritcandana

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, 

seeing less so I can see more, 

doing less so I can do more, 

acquiring less so I can have more.”

–        Jon Kabat-Zinn in Wherever You Go There You Are

Skunk
Origin: 

1625–35, Americanism ;  < the Massachusett reflex of Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa  (derivative of *šek-  urinate + -a·kw  fox,foxlike animal

In case you were wondering this is origin of the word SKUNK.  And why do I bring this up?

Today my dog Shunka met his first skunk.  Not a happy camper my boy.  He stinks in spite of a bath and a day outside and he will not be joining us in the bedroom tonight.  

new cut

The year of extremes.  this year the bugs have been remarkable and in hopes of slowing down the hatches we mowed close to the house.  Has it worked?  Will a few thousand fewer be noticed?  the other fields are still full of nesting birds and lots of bugs and we continue to have showers and warm.  I suspect we will have bugs with us for awhile.
  

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Aren't we blessed with a healthy ecology?  

Yet instead of being overjoyed at this, we the guests, the newcomers grump.

serving up flowers

bettering

Years ago someone told me about The Four Agreements.  He said I had to read the book.  It took me well over 3 years to do that.  The Four Agreements are what I try to live by now.  Not so easy.  They give me direction at least.  Reading the book puts them into perspective and I used to reread it and reread it, making or at least trying to make it a part of me.  Hard to be us in the world and I am / we are a work in progress.  Time to reread again.

frog in our pond

watering

Ponticherry Park Bridgton complete with bridge and spring