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Spring Lake – 22 Jan 2014

A walk around the always picturesque Spring Lake. Water patterns are fascinating. It was about 75°F today – very unusual for this time of year.  Been a very dry winter and we’re under drought advisory already here in California.

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The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

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The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA

In 2012, I visited “The Tech” museum in downtown San Jose.  I particularly enjoyed The Tech Awards Gallery, “Technology Benefiting Humanity” — it’s the only permanent museum exhibition on the West Coast that links social responsibility with technology in the areas of health, education, equality, economic development and the environment.  Here are a few pictures […]

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The Prayer Flag Project

Thanks to Jane LaFazio, I’ve discovered the Prayer Flag project – “A collective project spreading peace, good will and kindness, one flag at a time…” Inspired! I’m making a series of 4 flags based on the Loving-kindness meditation: May I be filled with Loving-Kindness May I be well May I be peaceful and at ease […]

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Ernest Callenbach’s “Epistle to the Ecotopians”

Ernest Callenbach, author of the classic environmental novel Ecotopia and other works, and founder/editor of the internationally known journal Film Quarterly, died on 16 April 2012 at the age of 83, leaving behind this document on his computer. I found it well worth reading. He eloquently expresses many of the themes which concern me regarding […]

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Inspiration — May 4, 2012

  Lace Fence from demakersvan   First Aid Box by Ulf Thomas Solbach / Radius Design Door has little Pantone reference panels for every color [seen in] nature around them… Ingrid Dijkers’ “Through the Rabbit Hole” tunnel book.    Nikolaj Lund Reinvents Portraiture of Classical Musicians   Stunning startrails by Australian photographer Lincoln Harrison.   […]

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