54 degrees this morning. No walk (light rain plus have sore throat)
Somehow developed sore throat yesterday. I believe it may be reaction to air conditioning blowing, which sometimes happens in the fist of the Spring. For some reason, I am allergic to air conditioning at the first of the year, although I develop a tolerance for it as the season progresses.
Almost traditionally, I have gotten some type of cold during the NCAA basketball tournament. (Not so I can stay home and watch the games, they are bad enough to stay home!)
Actually, I was sick enough to stay home during the tournament years ago. It was when they played the games and replayed them 24 hours a day. I would sleep, wake up and watch the ending of a game, then fall asleep and wake and watch a bit of another game for almost three days.
I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to it before, but after that episode, I was hooked on the tournament.
I have watched my attitudes and beliefs change over the years, in some cases almost a complete reversal, in others I have held the same views.
Some things in life you don’t really understand until you live through them, or at least are close to a situation where you observe the situation
Sometimes your beliefs change suddenly, sometime it is a gradual change.
I like to feel my beliefs have changed more to compassion and empathy for people in general.
However, I can feel myself develop more intense dislike for persons who take advantage of other people, bullies (whom I have always disliked), high level criminals who masquerade as “leaders” etc.
One area I have become to the point of real anger is practices like the city (now next to us that we used to live in) and how the poor planning of the city allows commercial development to destroy the value of residential areas.
Probably the failure to protect the public and allowing special interests to take advantage of residents or people who don’t have any recourses to respond has developed into a passion
I actually had planned to attend an intensive training course in activism in the city I used to live in. I was accepted, but had to withdraw since I live in another city.
Probably the main problem I see with the city I live in now is there is a group of people who seem to like to avoid involving the public and appear to lack transparency. (Transparency is the “new” word to describe what people don’t like about cliques who frequently get things done, but they do it without a lot of public input.)
The “public” can be such a nuisance at times to them! Actually, I haven’t been here long enough to say that with any great proof, just my observation.
But at least the city I live in now believe in protecting the public and the value of housing, in proper planning, and a belief in the development of parts, bike and pedestrian paths and control of the intrusion of signs and commercial into residential areas.
I can even tell when I get into the city because of the landscaping of the roads and the high quality of commercial development especially versus the nearby city we used to live in.
Another dream (this is getting to become a daily event!)
3 11 16 Friday Dream
I am wondering around early in the morning waiting for Aliene to call me, this is before work.
I am wondering around to different places, where I don’t recognize a person but somehow they don’t seem surprised to see me.
In one scene I try to take a corner to sharp and somehow go around the corner on the wrong side (it is hard to explain) and damaged the car I was driving. A big man stopped and came over and mentioned it was ok, but the “car side and hood was folded”
My first thought was I had just changed insurance companies and now I had a claim!
It seemed to be a dream with a lot of minor scraping of the car I was driving.
At one point I was in a deep pond like area with the car and I was trying to drive up this huge hill to get out of the area.
lSeveral people flit in and out of the dream.
Can’t remember much else, but again woke up thinking it was real.
That’s it for now, Saturday, March 12, 2016.
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