After several months of thoughtful anguish, all the parts of the puzzle are in place and are being assembled. The puzzle being my first photography showing at The Barn in Phippsburg, Maine.
The parts include business cards, photo inventory, mats, frames and courage.
Through the assembly of the parts, specifically the matting of the pictures, courage is transitioning to confidence.
Today/tomorrow will be
1. Warmer
2. Cooler
3. Wetter
4. Drier
5. About the same as
Yesterday/Today.
1. Live life through open doors.
2. When taking pictures, make allowances for framing and matting.
3. Thors Hill is now verdant.
4. The Booming Escape.
I’m about two months into my Verizon iPhone and three months into my wifi 32G iPad. I have iPoked around, news, games, Audobon society, music, & photography apps, et al.
Then found my favorite app – My Fitness Pal (MFP). This app will literally change your life as it is a better health plan in your hand. With it, you can track your daily calories, nutrition and exercise—without having to look up a bunch of scattered charts and tables. It is a complete package. When used with the best intentions and truths, you will lose weight the only way that weight should be lost – Diet & Exercise.
You start by entering your data – weight, height, gender & age. Then you input your desired weight. MFP then calculates your daily calorie goal. It appears to be designed to allow you to safely lose one pound a week. This works out to 500 less calories a day than the typical amount needed to sustain current weight. Points add up as you enter the food you eat with credit given for a huge range of exercise options.
Day One: Lunch was the tipping point into reality. I ordered and ate a tuna salad sandwich from Panera Bread – then checked out the calorie content. Nearly half of a one day’s allowance. Even after exercise – walking the dog and elliptical, I ended up the day with 300 calories beyond goal.
Day Two: Knowing that this day is my brew pub day, I researched and planned ahead of time for meal, beverages and exercise. This worked, I ended the day 136 net calories below goal.
Day Three: Today’s goal was to erase the remaining sin of Day one. With watched consumption and exercise, I erased the remaining net.
Day Four is in progress and I was rewarded with getting back on track. Three days of into this plan, I have lost the expected 1/2 pound and am on my way to one pound loss per week.
This Works For Me.
Time changed today. I’m guessing we sprung forward by saving this one hour & depositing this hour towards more light after work. This deposit will be withdrawn this fall. Without interest.
Time changes are bifurcation points. An imposed natural opportunity to reflect, change and redirect.
Astronomical events gives us the solstices and equinoxes. Time, Space & Places in the sky.
The calendar gives us new weeks, new months, new years. Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday.
Nature gives us standard time. Local noon is when the sun is due south and can be set by your garden sundial. Midnight is dark and the sun is not due north.
The government gives us savings time. Which we are on now. I guess that is where the one hour deposit goes – to some time savings bank that doesn’t pay interest. The government also gives us time zones with opt out clauses. Not every state saves time.
Back in the day, we used to set our clocks forward by one hour. The official time to do this is at 2 AM. Some may do this before going to bed. Others when they get up in the morning. Did anyone get up at 2 AM, reset their time devices, and got back to bed shortly after 3 AM. And I’m not sure where my wristwatch is right now.
In today’s modern era, our IT systems – Microsoft, Apple, cellphone providers, cable systems – all do this on a program controlled, automated basis. I think my blog settings didn’t change, according to the clock at the bottom of this window, I am actively typing this one hour ago.
All I want to know is who is going to come by to change the clocks on the stove, microwave ovens, coffee maker and the dashboard of my truck? Truth be told, every time display in the kitchen is in another time zone, not even closely synchronized to reality.
I think I want a sundial. Only a sundial. And the freedom of nature to naturally ignore all other imposed realities. Since it is current overcast, there would be no shadow and this one moment would remain timeless. I want to save this timelessness.
