I left my job in San Francisco as well as my Heart during COVID. I’m still trying to recover my nesting instinct and pushing Newton’s Law, “A Body at Rest Tends to Stay at Rest.” and the laws of the conservation of energy! Thank God for Zoom and the upsides to WFH, Work From Home!
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The Douglas Meriwether Griggs Memorial Bridge
If I were a bridge, I would look at it such as in Charlotte’s Web, with wonder and curiosity, but aimed at the bridging the purposefulness in bringing people, goods, and services together for increased ease in time savings, higher contact and connection between two shores–very similar to the purpose behind the San Francisco Bay …
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“No” Is a Complete Sentence
The above photo is a pretty dramatic depiction of clearly saying “No.” in being asked to do something, such as climbing up an extinct volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! But is this consistent with my goal to stay active after 65? Didn’t I say to myself I wanted to keep fit and …
Rainbow Warriors
“It’s raining!” “So what? It’s Hawaii!” The gentle morning rains can sometimes feel annoying at first blush, but very soon the sun comes out and we get rainbows. Lots and lots of rainbows. There really can’t be a more beautiful immediate outcome from our morning winter rains here in Waikiki. The post effectively captures the …
Annie Get Your Gun
I can’t decide if I would be a Bison or a Bear. Both of these animals made themselves known to me when a late spring snowstorm befell Yellowstone National Park and we had to hightail it out to Bozeman to catch our flight back to Seattle. Bear is a common term applied to larger men …
Dear Doug
Looks like you made it to 100. Good thing you stopped eating everything at the grocery store that are in the center of the store–and kept to shopping only on the edge of the store: the produce, the meats, the dairy and the deli–and not all the crap with ingredient lists designed to put you …
Can You Spell It?
To know me is to mirror me. First lesson: go into an Austin Powers caricature* and say, “Oh Behave.” Then regress to Sean Connery and in your best secret agent voice and say “Bond. James Bond.” But now add this new addition, “Meriwether is my middle name.” Indeed, this is my middle name, M e …
Birds of the Crater
I keep forgetting the name of the most annoying yet fascinating birds on Oahu. The Myna bird. They are always paired together, always. There is never one all alone. And when they congregate, the really congregate! They make a huge noise in a bunch. We can’t even talk during our outdoor meeting in beach chairs …
I Followed my Dao. . .and Started Writing
Writing a book while working 60 hours a week was actually fun. I carried a pocket notebook in my shirt and jotted down ideas as my day unfolded on the bus as soon as I finished a trip and got to the terminal. Then I would edit later by writing chapters down on blank sheets …
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Winston Tastes Good Like a Cigarette Should
https://www.daoofdoug.com I didn’t have to think about this one. The word that actually is not a word is, orientate. There is no such word. The correct word is orient. As in: “I completed the orienteering merit badge and found the last marker because I learned how to correctly orient the map with the compass.” More …
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The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 