Bach and Ozu: the books
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Writing Silences on Sunday prompted me to look more deeply again at Bach and Ozu. From my bookshelf, I took down My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach, Bach , and Ozu.
shrink wrap car
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It was only a matter of time that we would get shrink wrap cars.
dramatic blue in the night sky
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The other night, I tried to capture the drama of the night sky. This fuzzy picture might give you some tiny sense of the awe I felt. I didn't have a tripod on which to steady my camera....oh well.
California Hornblower
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Because of Shifra's generous present, Laura and I were out on a Bay cruise on Sunday evening. Though it was cold out, the view was spectacular. Laura and I had a wonderful time!
"Do something great for your country. Leave."
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Well, I did exactly that -- I moved from Canada to the USA. Is that what the poster meant?
I'm having a hard time accepting that I need long stretches of quiet
contemplation to become truly centered and grounded. I just wish it
weren't true. I wish I could instantly jump from one situation to
another with effortless "context switching" and be fully immersed in
each task from the start. Isn't that the dream of a society hooked on
"continuous partial attention"? I've been attracted to the "Getting
Things Done" system for that reason. As the Wikipedia explains:
GTD has certainly helped me get better organized, but it hasn't been a
panacea. I don't blame GTD for my problem since it never promised to
let me squeeze five elephants into a clay jar. Instead of aspiring to
grow large enough to envelope elephants, I need to accept that I am
just an ordinary clay jar.
shadows in Albany
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Even though I was sick with a cold, I was so happy to get out in the sun and see shadows such as these yesterday afternoon.
What mountain is this?
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I took this picture on the flight from Oakland to Portland. Is this Mount Hood or Mount Shasta or something else altogether?
cheese @ Berkeley Bowl
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I used to live a block away from Berkeley Bowl. Now that I live in Albany with my lovely wife, I don't get to hang out at Berkeley Bowl so often. When I do get there once or twice a week now, I do make a point of sampling the cheese of the day -- both for old time's sake but also to live in the presence of tasting the darn good cheeses being hawked. It's really quite interesting to me how popular the cheese tasting is at Berkeley Bowl. One wouldn't think that people like me, who don't need any more food during the day, would be so into sampling the cheese. But that's not the point of the sampling, is it?
Dramatic clouds
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On my afternoon walk, I saw these clouds overhead. The picture captures but a small part of the drama outside my office (and inside my mind).