
“Badger’s footsteps” image via wikimedia commons
“Something I’ve not done
is following me
I haven’t done it again and again
so it has many footsteps…”
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excerpt from Something I’ve Not Done by W.S. Merwin
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | N | : | - got a few things done, wasted some time, and discovered an unexpected new problem… |
| Wed. | : | Y | : | 2 – took some action on the unexpected problem… |
| Thu. | : | N | : | - Spent the day with my brother… |
| Fri. | : | N | : | - call back & more action on the unexpected problem... |
| Sat. | : | N | : | - was up early shopping for and assembling and delivering Meals on Wheels, and had no energy left when I got home… |
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Jul 31, 10:15PM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments

image via http://karmacrandall.blogspot.com/2010/07/blue-sky.html
“Inebriate of Air – am I -
And Debauchee of Dew -
Reeling through endless summer days -
From inns of Molten Blue.”
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Emily Dickinson, No. 214, St. 2, 1860.
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | N | : | - busy preparing for leading spiritual formation group... |
| Tue. | : | N | : | - at least I belatedly answered my Sunday questions… |
| Wed. | : | N | : | - stayed home all day; de-cluttering office… |
| Thu. | : | N | : | - stayed home all day; some purging of old paperwork … |
| Fri. | : | N | : | - out and about; helped some people; made some mistakes; bought some groceries... |
| Sat. | : | N | : | - stayed home all day; some more purging of old paperwork… |
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Jul 24, 2012, 01:46PM PDT | 8 cheers | 0 comments

bee on lantana; image via wikimedia commons
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Answer July —
Where is the Bee —
Where is the Blush —
Where is the Hay?
Ah, said July —
Where is the Seed —
Where is the Bud —
Where is the May —
Answer Thee — Me —
Nay — said the May —
Show me the Snow —
Show me the Bells —
Show me the Jay!
Quibbled the Jay —
Where be the Maize —
Where be the Haze —
Where be the Bur?
Here — said the Year —
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Emily Dickinson
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 2 so far…oops, unexpected phone call set me back tonight… |
| Wed. | : | N | : | Sort of a lost day. :( |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | Sort of a lost morning; tried to make a new start but still didn’t get much done. :( |
| Fri. | : | N | : | No good excuse… |
| Sat. | : | N | : | Busy with other things but not my #1 thing. :( |
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Jul 15, 2012, 03:42PM PDT | 5 cheers | 0 comments
image credit: Hoboken Real Estate News website
“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Boy, has it ever!
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 2 – Decided to go help out a friend, and ended up staying for dinner & part of a movie… |
| Wed. | : | N | : | - Having a Happy July 4th |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | 2 – Have failed so far to do last Sunday’s most important thing for the week. Sigh… |
| Fri. | : | Y | : | 3 – Still haven’t done the last Sunday’s most important thing… |
| Sat. | : | y | : | 2 – ditto… |
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Jul 02, 2012, 09:08AM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments

PRC95-44b Hubble Wide Field Image of “Star Birth” Clouds in M16; image source nasa
“Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon,
Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed,
Yet I go singing through that land oppressed
As one that singeth through the flowers of June.
....
Like emptied idiot masks, sin’s loves and wars
Stare at me now: for in the night I broke
The bubble of a great world’s jest, and woke
Laughing with laughter such as shakes the stars.”
- Excerpt from The End of Fear, by G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 2 – too much fear; not enough laughter & singing… |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Wed. | : | Y | : | 1 – too much distraction with friends and their concerns/requests… |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | ? – don’t remember how I did…probably not too well… |
| Fri. | : | N | : | - in a funk because of the coming heat wave… |
| Sat. | : | N | : | - fearful about my A/C unit acting up… |
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note to self: a quote to ponder…
“My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Jun 25, 2012, 12:50PM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness”
- Sigmund Freud
“Work is love made visible.”
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“Tell you what I like the best -
‘Long about knee-deep in June,
‘Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine, – some afternoon
Like to jes’ git out and rest,
And not work at nothin’ else!”
- James Witcomb Riley, Knee Deep in June
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 2.5 |
| Wed. | : | Y | : | 2 – the car wouldn’t start & that changed my plans |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Fri. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Sat. | : | Y | : | 2 – I was melting on the vine yesterday & didn’t get #3 done. |
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Jun 18, 2012, 08:08AM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments

June berry or serviceberry tree fruit – image via annarbor.com
Now that the bright red berries lend
Color to the June berry tree
My need is urgent to befriend
Denial and austerity.
I touch the fruit with lips of wish
And with the fingers of soft words,
And leave them, a delicious dish
In taste and substance to the birds.
- Jessica Powers, Richer Berry (excerpt)
A friend here has a June berry tree and I’ve tasted muffins that she made from the fruit – they tasted like blueberries. Last week at the local park I got a chance to pick and taste a different type of June berry – wild raspberries – but I left most of them for the birds or whoever else finds them. It brought back memories of childhood berry picking.
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 2 |
| Wed. | : | N | : | - I took care of a committment, and then I dawdled away the afternoon and evening. |
| Thu. | : | N | : | - I dawdled away the entire day. Sigh... |
| Fri. | : | N | : | - FINALLY did 2 things I’d been dreading; now taking care of my volunteer committment |
| Sat. | : | N | : | - FINALLY bought a refrigerator. |
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Jun 11, 2012, 07:26AM PDT | 14 cheers | 0 comments

image: postcard of Augusta canal, approx 1875; source – www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 2 – spent too much time at the library in the afternoon… |
| Wed. | : | N | : | – was running late this morning; I accomplished 2 things that needed to be done |
| Thu. | : | N | : | – accomplished something in the morning, but ended up reading a book all afternoon… |
| Fri. | : | N | : | – walked with a friend in the morning; did normal volunteer commitment this afternoon… |
| Sat. | : | N | : | – spent way too much unproductive time on the computer in the afternoon… |
Notes to self:
I did make some notes so I can reconstruct what I did and didn’t do. Not a good week for this goal. Avoidance is probably not flow, and I was avoiding some things that still need to be done…
Jun 05, 2012, 12:40PM PDT | 9 cheers | 0 comments

Macadam country road image via wikipedia
What joy have I in June’s return?
My feet are parched — my eyeballs burn,
I scent no flowery gust;
But faint the flagging Zephyr springs,
With dry Macadam on its wings,
And turns me “dust to dust.”
- Thomas Hood, Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2.
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 2 |
| Tue. | : | Y | : | 1 |
| Wed. | : | Y | : | 3 |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | 2 |
| Fri. | : | Y | : | 2 |
| Sat. | : | ? | : | - went refrigerator shopping but could not make up my mind |
May 28, 2012, 06:19AM PDT | 5 cheers | 0 comments

image of Salvador Dali’s “exploding soft watch” via onlineclock.net
“How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?”
- Dr. Seuss (source unknown)
| DAY | : | Y/N | : | DONE |
| Mon. | : | Y | : | 2 – late-in-the-day excuses: oh, my aching back & head… |
| Tue. | : | N | : | - no good excuses…at least my aching back and head were much better… |
| Wed. | : | N | : | - no good excuses…at least I sat at my desk for awhile & sorted through some papers. |
| Thu. | : | Y | : | 2 – making a new beginning, but then something unexpected came along… |
| Fri. | : | Y | : | 2 – change of plans late in the day… |
| Sat. | : | N | : | - came down with a headache – 2nd one of the week – at least my back was fine!... |
May 21, 2012, 01:07PM PDT | 10 cheers | 0 comments