Night dresses these coastal mountains in ethereal velvet and pearls. Down on the other side of the canyon and through a forest the Pacific throats a lullaby surf. The mind wanders.
Someplace between the Lunar New Year, listening to Thich Nhat Hahn, and watching a rocket launch I was able to aggregate those streams of consciousness. It is a trail of amusement.
I can watch a Space X Falcon rocket take a National Reconnaissance Office payload into the heavens,
in an age when people are again banning books.
Those hard to see little puffy spots in the frame above are the payload and second stage heading up while the puff to the left is the first stage returning to Vandenberg and its landing pad. You can find much better video and photos from Space X and NASA, but I'm boggled that I can see it from my deck.
Rockets going into and coming home from space while a quarter of the US population refuses to trust science.
Seeing dancing trees makes more sense than all the voter suppression laws, enacted in the name of a fraud that did not exist, solutions in search of a phantom problem. Double down on the P's.
Poor Whoopi! Just goes to show how unstudied in history we have become. She didn't mean to be a monster, but even when you care you need facts, and truth. A lack of knowledge and intellectuality infects most public discourse today.
If we didn't laugh, we'd cry.
Thinking about the wise advise of Thich Nhat Hahn as I showered today, looking out the window to see the above frame.
"Happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that it is here now."
Friend Jim sent the above frame from native Indiana where he is visiting, longing to be back in California. That's easy to understand.
The blooming season has begun here. Lana is still picking tomatoes and snap peas, from last year. The lemon tree is bearing well and the lime is coming on. Happier thoughts even than hearing Mike Pence has discovered his cojones.
So as we toddle between absurdity and amusement, I'm shopping for glasses so I can see it all.
Especially those cosmic pearls.
Meanwhile down here, "Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet."
It, and all of us on it, need a lot of love.
See you down the trail.
