obscurities for the New Year - 2008 !
Good morning. another writing on the wall. Lets look around and see whats going on – environment is all the rage. So is real estate. Witnessing last available waterfront ‘community’, in Vancouver, go on sale. Politics, always politics. It’s raining again, a lot. There is snow on the mountains and yesterday it was ‘cold’. Hockey season is well underway and there went Christmas whereby Canadians got to go to America and buy things at prices never seen in Canada.
New Years 2008. 2 years to the Olympics in Vancouver (read out of town vacation for me). January 2008 leaves 12 more months of George as president. The horror. If offence is ever given, turn the other cheek ok….look to the south and what do you see ? a population of very rich and/or visually famous, who get to travel far and wide to be ‘seen’ and the general masses never having needed a passport and never will. Balance is everything. Swaying the balance is advantageous for a bit. When the pendulum shifts you have to have the strength to hold on.
Are we ready for winter ? Last year, the day the snow began to fall, it started to snow. A lot. The plane was the last to take off from Vancouver for a bit that night. Went to Hawaii. 73 degrees Fahrenheit when we got off the plane. Returned and the snow was but slush on lawns along Granville street. Downtown, it was wet - missed it all. I like Hawaii. Been there a lot, twice by myself. Really like the big island. Take a tour, kona-hilo-kona. At Kona, point the car south and drive – it’s a circle road, you cannot get lost. The climate changes as you go - hot, sunny, windy, warm, rain, heavy rain, steam bath, sunny, windy, hot again. Volcanoes, steam vents, flowing lava, palm trees, rocky lava, sand in 5 different colours – white, gold, pink, green and black - sugar cane, coffee and macadamia nut plantations are all on display as you drive the circle. Like coffee ? Take a look at why real 100 % kona coffee is so expensive – not much if it grown. More Hawaiian flavour and culture than Oahu, Honolulu and Waikiki – in fact, traveling to Hawaii to go to Oahu, Honolulu, Waikiki is no more special or Hawaiian than most of the cities of southern California. Maui is coming up to Honolulu in general traffic and noise. The big island and, more so Kauai, can still impress the feeling that the islands and its people are in Hawaii. There are other islands out there. But they are a secret – don’t want it too too busy. Palm trees and sunshine. Always a breeze. The lanai is a great spot and the beach is a tour. Outdoor pool is a pleasure.
Do you ever get the feeling that the whole opportunity here is heavily controlled ? it has to have some semblance of control or there wouldn’t be many people left…if anarchy reigned. The horror is right. At what price freedom, a quote from somewhere but terribly valid in view of all that goes on, or could.
Limited resources. I wanna fly off about environmental awareness and perceptions here for a bit…go away boy, ya botha me – Foghorn Leghorn, the rooster.
My take on the whole thing (the environment and climate change.) is that it is something we can do very little about to prevent from happening. Its not far ‘too late’, it will happen anyway, right about now. Questions that need to be answered are those of ultimate survival, let alone the weather. (The news said the ozone hole was smaller this year, for the second consecutive year). a magnetic mishmash of chemicals seething about. No immaculate anything. It’s all out of whack. The basis of the demise of humans is evaporation and ability to purify drinkable water…wars will be fought over the supply and ownership of the supply of fresh water in the world. Without water nothing grows. Nothing. Does not have to be fresh, just water. Creatures. All kinds of creatures. Ours is the only one that has self awareness ? As we know it, perhaps, although it’s a big sky out there – we have gone quite nowhere in the sky. At the end of our day, it is where we will have to go to survive as a being…chemistry, physics and mathematics are amazingly complicated sciences. Our ability to understand what goes on all around us is an enormous idea. We are barely sure of an individual’s cellular structure. We can identify them all, but have no clue whatsoever of how a majority of it works. Add a bit of philosophy to the mix. Never mind the ideas of perpetual motion, cold fusion or teleportation. Is the liquor store open ? where is the 7-11? can we get pizza ? – Lets drive. - pressing issues all. Does one have any relation to the other ? yes. Someone had to think about how to make it all more convenient, which entailed research into most realms of science to determine what would work to perpetuate an idea into the subculture of human existence. Science.
I live in a box in the city. I have a perch, not far from the ground and can watch the city move about me. (I smoke, outside on the balcony. I don’t smoke in the box - Haven’t done that for many years. - Honest, it stinks, its not good for me…but what really is ? sitting on my ass typing into the computer is just as unreasonable to my health as smoking.) – right, sure, uh-huh, ok, fine – next,… my perch looks over the park. Watched them build it. Very engineered are these city parks. The money spent to ‘make’ the park is not skimpy. Trees, rolled out grass, benches, flowerbeds and the like – the preparation, tearing down the old wooden beam buildings, some containing asbestos, digging up to ground, sifting it all - A big project to maintain too…nevertheless, the park is enjoyed by many. The bang for the buck is worthy in this example of civic and provincial and federal dollars at work.
The center of the city is a complicated place. Thousands living in very close proximity. Boxes stacked to the sky, at prices, which could buy many acres in another part of the province, that’s what we all generally live in downtown. Designer faucets and high fiber antioxidant smoothies in the morning, a cup of coffee, for which you can pay any price you like depending upon your taste for ‘quality’, thrift or cachet, (Resilient market. Probably better than booze.), a few open spaces, but any kind of food you may have a taste for, at almost anytime time of day. Other concrete towers of boxes contain the offices, where most people who live in the city work. Boxes in the sky, mazes underground for your weather resistant shopping investigation, wide promenades out in the elements, which all feels a little like a ‘habitrail’, . Roads and vehicles…it’s pretty much concrete, traffic, and noise. People walk about the pavement with their leashed creatures, patiently (or not) waiting for it to take care of business, in order the owner can get a good squeeze of the business, while picking it up off the ground, before tossing it neatly into city trash cans. Hysterical really. Size, seems not to matter when choosing your leashed creature, if it fits in the box, all is well – they make plastic bags in all sizes. Um. Part of the scenery. Phreeks hang at the park, some doing more than ‘hangin’. Construction people, smoking a phatty. Off the job…children and their parents having picnics, at times a real part of the community that has been created. Created is true. (have you ever watched the construction of a building up close ? From sod turning to opening day ? - the creation of a new concrete building and all its associated bits is a truly human feat. Every inch of any kind of building that humans inhabit has been put together with human hands, every square inch of it.
enuf.
Good morning. another writing on the wall. Lets look around and see whats going on – environment is all the rage. So is real estate. Witnessing last available waterfront ‘community’, in Vancouver, go on sale. Politics, always politics. It’s raining again, a lot. There is snow on the mountains and yesterday it was ‘cold’. Hockey season is well underway and there went Christmas whereby Canadians got to go to America and buy things at prices never seen in Canada.
New Years 2008. 2 years to the Olympics in Vancouver (read out of town vacation for me). January 2008 leaves 12 more months of George as president. The horror. If offence is ever given, turn the other cheek ok….look to the south and what do you see ? a population of very rich and/or visually famous, who get to travel far and wide to be ‘seen’ and the general masses never having needed a passport and never will. Balance is everything. Swaying the balance is advantageous for a bit. When the pendulum shifts you have to have the strength to hold on.
Are we ready for winter ? Last year, the day the snow began to fall, it started to snow. A lot. The plane was the last to take off from Vancouver for a bit that night. Went to Hawaii. 73 degrees Fahrenheit when we got off the plane. Returned and the snow was but slush on lawns along Granville street. Downtown, it was wet - missed it all. I like Hawaii. Been there a lot, twice by myself. Really like the big island. Take a tour, kona-hilo-kona. At Kona, point the car south and drive – it’s a circle road, you cannot get lost. The climate changes as you go - hot, sunny, windy, warm, rain, heavy rain, steam bath, sunny, windy, hot again. Volcanoes, steam vents, flowing lava, palm trees, rocky lava, sand in 5 different colours – white, gold, pink, green and black - sugar cane, coffee and macadamia nut plantations are all on display as you drive the circle. Like coffee ? Take a look at why real 100 % kona coffee is so expensive – not much if it grown. More Hawaiian flavour and culture than Oahu, Honolulu and Waikiki – in fact, traveling to Hawaii to go to Oahu, Honolulu, Waikiki is no more special or Hawaiian than most of the cities of southern California. Maui is coming up to Honolulu in general traffic and noise. The big island and, more so Kauai, can still impress the feeling that the islands and its people are in Hawaii. There are other islands out there. But they are a secret – don’t want it too too busy. Palm trees and sunshine. Always a breeze. The lanai is a great spot and the beach is a tour. Outdoor pool is a pleasure.
Do you ever get the feeling that the whole opportunity here is heavily controlled ? it has to have some semblance of control or there wouldn’t be many people left…if anarchy reigned. The horror is right. At what price freedom, a quote from somewhere but terribly valid in view of all that goes on, or could.
Limited resources. I wanna fly off about environmental awareness and perceptions here for a bit…go away boy, ya botha me – Foghorn Leghorn, the rooster.
My take on the whole thing (the environment and climate change.) is that it is something we can do very little about to prevent from happening. Its not far ‘too late’, it will happen anyway, right about now. Questions that need to be answered are those of ultimate survival, let alone the weather. (The news said the ozone hole was smaller this year, for the second consecutive year). a magnetic mishmash of chemicals seething about. No immaculate anything. It’s all out of whack. The basis of the demise of humans is evaporation and ability to purify drinkable water…wars will be fought over the supply and ownership of the supply of fresh water in the world. Without water nothing grows. Nothing. Does not have to be fresh, just water. Creatures. All kinds of creatures. Ours is the only one that has self awareness ? As we know it, perhaps, although it’s a big sky out there – we have gone quite nowhere in the sky. At the end of our day, it is where we will have to go to survive as a being…chemistry, physics and mathematics are amazingly complicated sciences. Our ability to understand what goes on all around us is an enormous idea. We are barely sure of an individual’s cellular structure. We can identify them all, but have no clue whatsoever of how a majority of it works. Add a bit of philosophy to the mix. Never mind the ideas of perpetual motion, cold fusion or teleportation. Is the liquor store open ? where is the 7-11? can we get pizza ? – Lets drive. - pressing issues all. Does one have any relation to the other ? yes. Someone had to think about how to make it all more convenient, which entailed research into most realms of science to determine what would work to perpetuate an idea into the subculture of human existence. Science.
I live in a box in the city. I have a perch, not far from the ground and can watch the city move about me. (I smoke, outside on the balcony. I don’t smoke in the box - Haven’t done that for many years. - Honest, it stinks, its not good for me…but what really is ? sitting on my ass typing into the computer is just as unreasonable to my health as smoking.) – right, sure, uh-huh, ok, fine – next,… my perch looks over the park. Watched them build it. Very engineered are these city parks. The money spent to ‘make’ the park is not skimpy. Trees, rolled out grass, benches, flowerbeds and the like – the preparation, tearing down the old wooden beam buildings, some containing asbestos, digging up to ground, sifting it all - A big project to maintain too…nevertheless, the park is enjoyed by many. The bang for the buck is worthy in this example of civic and provincial and federal dollars at work.
The center of the city is a complicated place. Thousands living in very close proximity. Boxes stacked to the sky, at prices, which could buy many acres in another part of the province, that’s what we all generally live in downtown. Designer faucets and high fiber antioxidant smoothies in the morning, a cup of coffee, for which you can pay any price you like depending upon your taste for ‘quality’, thrift or cachet, (Resilient market. Probably better than booze.), a few open spaces, but any kind of food you may have a taste for, at almost anytime time of day. Other concrete towers of boxes contain the offices, where most people who live in the city work. Boxes in the sky, mazes underground for your weather resistant shopping investigation, wide promenades out in the elements, which all feels a little like a ‘habitrail’, . Roads and vehicles…it’s pretty much concrete, traffic, and noise. People walk about the pavement with their leashed creatures, patiently (or not) waiting for it to take care of business, in order the owner can get a good squeeze of the business, while picking it up off the ground, before tossing it neatly into city trash cans. Hysterical really. Size, seems not to matter when choosing your leashed creature, if it fits in the box, all is well – they make plastic bags in all sizes. Um. Part of the scenery. Phreeks hang at the park, some doing more than ‘hangin’. Construction people, smoking a phatty. Off the job…children and their parents having picnics, at times a real part of the community that has been created. Created is true. (have you ever watched the construction of a building up close ? From sod turning to opening day ? - the creation of a new concrete building and all its associated bits is a truly human feat. Every inch of any kind of building that humans inhabit has been put together with human hands, every square inch of it.
enuf.
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