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Never enough time
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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There's never enough time to catch up, the prison now of just enough money but it's forever spent in transit, on gas here and then back again...1 day to drive, an evening's visit, the next day - errands, shopping, a longer visit, the next day return...
Summer will be too brief and I'd better find a pocket full of diamonds before the end...
A cougar and 2 cubs
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I didn't get a picture, sorry, but earlier in the day had spotted a red smear upon the road, roadkill, that went from the right side to the left, something had dragged it over the embankment down towards the lake.
And that evening, in the headlights, beside the road, a cougar and 2 cubs, the first one I've ever seen, and the next morning and evening I see glimpses of it again. It kind of makes you a bit nervous about spreading out your blanket and sleeping, this is a little bit close to where I've been spending the night, never one to set up a tent I just might have to start...
Of my friends giving me a vintage sportscar...
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(since returning to the Kootenays I've had lots of strange dreams...)
I dreamed that a group of my friends (?? Who? I don't know...) had bought me a vintage sportscar, old, from the 50's, and I'm grateful for the gift but I don't want it, I don't need it, It will be too expensive to restore, and I'm at a farmers place - green farm with trees, somewhere north of Edmonton, the farmer, he's just dug up this car for me, it's been buried, 70 years almost, under 2 feet of soil, he's other vintage cars as well, all of them buried, under 2, 3, 4 feet of soil, and I'm expressing my dismay over the cost of restoration, how will I ever afford to get this working, running, and he's telling me that it's in great condition, almost started, just sputtering a bit, normal, given it's age...
What Matters
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The daughter, conversations, the big bang, the extinction of the dinosaurs, ... our own, seemingly inevitable extinction, trying to find, distill some meaning from it all ...
What matters.
I don't know.
Or I do, I think I do at least, have an intuitive grasp of beauty and those smaller - and larger moments, all too often alone, it would be nice to share them, but it's seldom worth the risk, to apprehend beauty in the company of fools - well, it makes it ugly, it in some ways devalues it, better to find it on your own. Which then maybe is a separate post, on the nature of beauty, not merely the sum of harmonious colors, symmetries and shapes, but ...? How to describe? Mathematicians describe beauty as well, and it has none of those qualities, and certain words, languages, have to the ear the same quality, and so there's a more worthwhile thought I can return to.
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