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Productive or Destructive?
I feel creative and most productive when I’m on the way to a movie I want to see. Recently, it was on the way to the Dune 2 movie. Better go see it now ’cause it’s leaving the silver screen after this weekend! Don’t worry, it’s available in DVD already! As for time of day, …
The Mountain
The photo above of Mount Rainer is from Pier 64, miles away from the beautiful spring flowers that bloom in fiery colors all over the scenic drive around the side of the mountain. My mom asked me if I wanted to go on a scenic drive around the mountain when I was visiting them in …
Send the Treasury Secretary
We passed the basket as we do every day at our meeting. A man who I had not seen at the meeting before, came around to me as I was sitting next to the treasurer and handed me a coin as the treasurer was busy counting the paper dollars contributed. I looked at the coin. …
A Man of Masks No More
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!
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 …
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 