Stuff

I don't have, like, actual stories to share with you. Just stuff is going on, and it's not been too exciting. Nothing like walking on a glacier or having the ride of my life or seeing Lake Clark from 2,000' on a sunny day. All i've got is bulletpoints from my day's thoughts.

• after getting ground-mailed up to Alaska and express mailed from Alaska, my bicycle now has very little resale value due to the gashes and mars on its paint job. But everything else is straight and riding great!
• Stupid plans!! if only i had not used sticking to my 'plans' as an excuse last Tuesday afternoon, i could have ridden the best bike trails i'd ever seen.
• Do, at the least, just a little of what you know you should, and do it now. Just a little is 100% better than nothing at all.
• Don't play mind games. Play life as it comes.
• Eat to live; don't live to eat.
• Focus

Anthony sent me an alarming email yesterday. He asked me "Who's this girl Hope and what are you doing lying in her bosom?" How does he know about Hope? And what picture of us did he see?

Actually, i had forgotten what i told to Daisy on Tuesday night about my instructor job status: "At the moment, i am resting in the bosom of hope that i will get the job." Daisy told that to Anthony and, wha-la, we have a paradox ! (please tell me if i used 'paradox' correctly) Well, i called Daisy to ask her what the deal was, and she told me the whole of it.

Thanks for your compliment, Elmo. Your favorite pianist has been practicing a new piece, Liszt's transposition of Beethoven's compelling 5th Symphony. While progress is slow and threatened to halt, i'm enjoying learning the musical expression of frustration with the misfortunes of life. "So pocht das Schicksal an die Pforte"; 'Thus Fate knocks at the door', the interpretation of the most famous four notes in music.

Angela left a voice message on my phone this evening. Her first words: "hey handsome."

I left a voice message on Angela's phone 30 minutes later. My first words: "hey beautiful." We're always so candid.

God, I'm in the waiting/ ready to used of You out there/will you grant what i'm praying/weave still my life with care.