Tuesday, May 28, 2013

It's not raining cats and dogs...

it's raining mouse turds! Every summer the mice move into the light fixture above the kitchen table and every time they do a little house cleaning then I have to as well. Luckily they are not the best house keepers.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

MVP MVP

I got MVP (most valuable player) award twice in one week on two different soccer teams! That never happens. It's not because I'm good but because I had two key defensive plays that saved each game. "How did you do that?" People asked me after my saves. "I don't know," I had to answer. I am an unpredictable player. My friend Pao, who is on one of my teams, says my goals don't make any sense. I'm starting to think my goals in life are like my soccer goals. They need to make more sense.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Stretching the Mind

On Saturday I went to a yoga class at my gym and the teacher said something that changed my life. First he was going on and on about doing you own practice and not to compare yourself to anyone else. The same stuff yoga teachers always say and the same stuff we need to hear over and over. But then he said, "When things aren't going right for us we have a default feeling." When he said that I realized what mine was. And now that I know what it is I can change it. What is yours?

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Annual Update

Every year I go to the psychic fair and have my aura photographed. Here is this year's image. The woman reading the photographs told me that it looks like I like what I do. That's the red part over my heart and the orange on the outside of my aura. She is right. Too bad I don't make much money doing what I like to do. She also said some other stuff but you don't get to know what that was.

Friday, May 10, 2013

When The Sky Falls

Out where I teach at Diablo Valley College they have a big 1950's looking cement pond in the middle of campus. Every spring it is full of ducklings and goslings. They are so cute you want to jump in the water and grab one and squeeze it till it's head pops off. But you know if you tried something like that a mama something would come after you and pinch you with its beak. Yesterday I was in class and I heard a goose calling someone. Sometimes they sit on the top of the building and make a bunch of noise but this sounded different. I looked down three stories to the ground and there was a mother goose standing next to a gosling that was sitting beside her. "The others are up there!" Someone pointed to the top of the building. Not a good place for a goose to build a nest since they are all about the water. How did she think she was going to get them there? "Bad parenting," someone else said. I went down by the mother goose where a crowd was gathering. Everyone was looking up where the two goslings on the roof were running back and forth trying to figure out how to get down. Then the second one fell. It managed to miss the cement and bounce off the dirt that was padded with pine needles. It looked stunned for a second then got up and went and found it's mom. While mom was distracted with the other baby I scooped the seated one up in my hand. The mother goose did not put up a fight. She didn't try to pinch me with her beak. It was almost like she let me have it. Just then the third chick fell from the sky and this man, who had been keeping his eye on it, caught it. He put it down and it joined its mother and its sibling. Canada Goose goslings are yellow and brown but the yellow is almost a florescent green. I squeezed the one in my hands a few times then tried my best to get it to walk but it couldn't use it's legs. I handed it over to my student's mother and she drove away with it off to the bird shelter. The mother goose let anyone stand next to her except for me. She would start hissing at me if I got too close. She gave me one bad egg but she wasn't going to let me have a good one. I have a feeling the goose who couldn't walk has a better chance of survival than the two healthy ones. Happy mother's day!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Collisions

On Saturday I went downtown to see some shows. 3 photographers have show up right now where they have either woven or somehow interlaced more than one photograph together. Must be in the air. Or the water. After I went downtown I met my brother's new friend. When I was growing up my best friend was named Daisy Dern. Funny thing is, my brother's friend, Daisy, looked a little like my best friend, Daisy. Daisy Dern, like myself, doesn't have a middle name. When people asked us what our middle names were and we would tell them we didn't have one they just assumed that we didn't like our middle name and they would say, "Come on. Tell me what it is." Well, The new Daisy has a middle name and it is Alice. Her birthday is also 3 days later than the old Daisy's birthday. One Daisy is a country singer and the other comes from British royalty. Kinda the same thing just on different sides of the pond.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Puzzled

The other night I got home from a 13 hour work day but I wasn't ready to go to sleep and I didn't need any more information to go into my brain. I didn't want to read or watch tv so I started to put a puzzle together. I just wanted to look at shapes and pretty colors. When I went back to work two days later a man walked into the photo lab and asked for Alice Shaw. He was delivering a bouquet of flowers. The card read, "I hope this brightens your day!" And it did but that was it. It didn't say who they were from and I can't begin to guess who sent them. Now I have two puzzles to work on.