Archive for July, 2009

Wild Vancouver nights

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Last night I went for another run and skinny dip in the Seymour River. This time I went down the Twin Bridges trail, which is closed for trail work. I felt worried as I ran down the trail and saw that they are widening it and gravelling it. The sign ...

Red wheel rolling

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I was driving over the Second Narrows bridge tonight, feeling high from a run by and skinny dip in the Seymour River. It was dusk, but the street lights hadn't come on yet on the north side of the bridge. I was groovin' on Led Zeppelin, as I am wont ...

Meditation on impermanence

Monday, July 20th, 2009

chocolate tea  phone service no chocolate no tea no phone service

Fried and fit to be tied

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Well, before I even had a chance to text the picture of the new antenna from my cell phone to my email, the new power adapter was fried. Dang! All that "Searching for service" was for naught, since the power adapter had fried after less than a day of receiving phone ...

Chairway to heaven: the efficacy of ridiculousness

Friday, July 17th, 2009

There was a breakthrough at Monkey Valley this week. For two years now I have been suffering with my cell phone here. I could only get a signal by standing on a bench on my back deck and holding the phone in the air, or by climbing up on the ...

Praying for the non-religious

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Continuing with the story of the sweat lodge, one of the elements that was very moving was the praying. As a person who doesn't follow a Christian tradition, prayer has often seemed impossible for me to do. If I don't have a god I believe in, how can I pray? In ...