52 degrees this morning Walk 47:28 minutes
Yesterday it was 42 degrees when I got up, 31 degrees several hours later when we went to eat breakfast and warmed up to almost t shirt levels later in the day.
52 degrees this morning, supposed to get to 80 degrees later today. Glimpses of Spring!
To me, April is one of the hardest months because the temperature changes from cold to hot to cold, or at least uncomfortably cool
I can still remember freezing in late June in San Francisco and wondering why in the world anyone would want to live there! (I actually still feel that way, it is not a place-like many places-I would want to live.)
Speaking of, Aliene and I did some late night grocery shopping the other night in the city we currently live in, since there is a nice grocery store about a mile away.
We were wondering what was wrong with the lighting, when we realized that it was very subdued lighting and hardly went off the property!
Unlike the city we used to live in (the city with no planners apparently) where even a small strip mall (with only a donut shop and a nail place) is lit up like an airport landing strip, intruding on the residential homes all around it!
This is also the mall with the “Sonic from Hell” (24 hour music and a bright video sign on 24 hours a day in spite of the residential area right next to it) and the huge “video billboard” some greed put right in the backyard of some brand new houses. His excuse “the sign is 50’ away!!!”. At least we can boycott Sonic, but we can’t really impact the sign company.
Anyway, we are SO glad we moved to a city where residents are at least semi-acknowledged as being warranted to be protected from intrusions by commercial development and huge commercial signs (video billboards aren’t allowed anywhere, much less in residential areas).
We try to buy as much as possible in this city, so we don’t support the city with no planning that doesn’t seem to even acknowledge that it has residents.
Of course this (the city we live now) is a small city (about 90,000 people) with a tiny downtown and spends a lot of money in “downtown development” that benefits the few at the expense of the many. At least that that is the way it appears, I will need to review it more, but I don’t a lot of results, although at least most of the (basically two block) “downtown” is at least filled with small businesses. (The rest of “downtown” is government buildings which are built to support “downtown’ and providing limited access due to where they are built).
A few thoughts about the book on philosophy I am listening to.
One concept is that for change to occur, there has to be some stability, otherwise there can’t really be change. I can see the point but I am going to have to read up on this a little more. It seemed to make sense while I was listening to it, but it is a little murky now that I am trying to explain what I heard.
That is one problem with listening, you really can’t go back and listen to it again (at least not easily) if I miss something or want to hear it again without listening to the entire book again.
Another thought was that the “potential” for change has to be there before change can occur. Like many concepts, that makes sense, but you also need to consider what is “potential” and consider if you can recognize “potential” or if is just a fact, that “potential” is always there, so change will occur anyway.
Maybe the key is that there are a variety of “potentials” and the key is recognizing the “best” potential what is available
I expect the “potential” for success or failure is always there, in one alternative or another.
That’s it for now, Sunday, April 3, 2016.
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