31 July 2014: Thursday ... last day of July ... chia seeds ... Sue (hybrid bike from Henry's next to McGlynn's w/Matt as proprietor), Carolyn, Susan, Veronica (Ronnie), Pamela, Dragana ... two workouts ... leg soreness ... Damaris (from Kenya), Hospice RN, visit late morning ...

15 August 2014: Friday ... Mom's birthday ... a rejuvenation ... a walk nearing sunset

My first picture of  Dancer on a too infrequent walk using the iPhone in weeks. Is is a rejuvenation on the birthday of my former mother-in-law, a woman who I love and consider my second mother and who is loved by my mother and who we called on her birth day this day and she answered and returned a phone call as promised? A person with integral and unchallenged integrity and fortitude. I don't believe so because change comes dripping slow and I ache or at least pretend to as I waste each day, one after another.  

29 July 2014: Tuesday ... Mom's 83rd birthday ... Christine's lesson of patience in yoga ... Nick's call ... NV's call ... Uncle Nick's call ... flowers from Acme ... a herd of deer by JDHS

The array of flowers and cards for Mom's birthday.


Mom poses behind orchids sent by Doug. 

It is so easy to break out of a routine and settle back into lethargy and renew that sense of incompetence. Yet, to learn patience -- represented so aptly by breathing in yoga and the focus of Christine's class this morning -- is to be able to take the time, each day, to do a little of a variety of activities that activate the mind and spirit, much like this writing, just a few minutes, after a much needed walk around JDHS and a circle of the quarter mile on the track with Dancer outside of the fence and not inside the track and the football field, where we marched over 40 years ago and sat in the stands playing our fight songs for the team. 

18 July 2014: Friday ... Birthday of Nelson Mandela (7/18/1918) ... Bob breakfast ... care dog matches Dancer on TV ... mom & bob share their doppelganger pets ...

Bob came to visit today and take me out to breakfast at a busy Crossroads. We posed this picture after the real moment was missed earlier. Bob have plastic grins but there is true connection, regardless. 

13 Sunday 2014: Sunday ... the artist and the need to express ... Catherine at UUSMC ...

12 July 2014: Saturday ... diffluence, liquefaction, dissolution ...

the act of flowing off or away ... this is a lost day and I am doing the former and I have to find a way out of it ... as I write this note on Monday and the skies have erupted and it pours outside and I am watching TV, too much, again, and now I watch another depressing piece about a young boy with a fascination with death from an early age and who did commit suicide at age 15.

11 July 2014: Friday ... McKie the letter writer ... Wahoo t-shirt, accent, Afrikaans (11 state languages in S. Africa) ... Lindsay & Alex on the General ... Roller Derby at Delcastle ...

View from the General Jackson Riverboat and the Nashville skyline on a full moon Friday with Lindsay and Alex aboard. 

The first Friday of each month, this summer at least, you'll find more than several roller derby enthusiasts at Delcastle Recreation Area. Members of teams all over the area, men and women, played under lights and a full moon. — at Delcastle Recreational Park.