Month: February 2016

Bachata

In our latest Seattle communique from Ivi (Sunday evening?), she mentioned that she was planning on several upcoming dance nights for the next week, including doing one of her new favorites, Bachata.  Here is a vid to help us (me, namely) to understand what this is about.

rDay Three-Hundred-Eighteen: The Body Shop Philosopher

Spent this Saturday morning at Eric’s, where we worked on “The Project” and discussed a range of topics from fear-driven politics to creativity and innovation to culture and education. We compared notes on the 2014 Dean Kamen documentary, “SlingShot” (available on Netflix and YouTube) and talked about figures like Leonard Da Vinci and Michelangelo. I told him about meeting and photographing Buckminster Fuller (when I had a press pass to the World Cooperation Conference in Santa Monica in the late 70s), so we naturally delved into topics like geodesic architecture, trash as a resource, and, of course, the ill-fated Dymaxion three-wheeled car. And he showed me how to carefully, painstakingly, gradually pull the dent/gash out of my rocker panel.

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The problem …

And action …




rDay Three-Hundred-Seventeen

Lloyd, a farmer from the Cove area, makes a weekly delivery of eggs to our doorstep.  He customarily leaves Charlie with a homemade beef jerky treat, perhaps to quell the latter’s barking and protective actions.  Today he left an oversize egg in a bag as it wouldn’t fit in the usual egg cartons he delivers.  Later on, we walked through strong winds and slushy streets with Charlie Boy.  And we got in another hour or so of reading aloud, now about 450 pages into the 750 page total of the Joseph Mitchell, “Up In The Old Hotel” book.  Stay tuned for more thrills.