fifteen minutes starting 9:17 a.m.
exciting things going on today! today is the aha wall street heart walk, which marks a couple firsts for me: it's the first 5k run/walk i've ever done, and it's the first charity fund raising activity i've done where i actually got donations from people. ha. two of the girls from my department are walking, as well as several people from around the company. it should be a good time.
also, yesterday i went out and took updated pictures of our garden (to come in a later post), and discovered that not one but TWO of our tomato plants have bitty baby green tomatoes on them, and the yellow squash plant has miniature squashlings happening! woo vegetables!
crunchy chicken has had crops already, and i was inspired to pull a few of our [horribly overcrowded and in need of thinning] green onions to help season the cauliflower we had for dinner last night. the rest of last night's dinner included felafel from a box mix and steamed local asparagus from the farmer's market. it was tasty.
the conversation erin and i had with Emily the Biology Major was interesting because (as i understand her) she says that the combination of humans' huge brains and opposable thumbs has spelled evolutionary disaster for us. we have these tools and this intellect that helps us override a lot of our natural circumstance, and yet we still maintain these urges for power and leisure time and conflict and dominance that originally helped us to survive in the wild. this means that we can use our brains and thumbs to create things like guns and factories and industrial farms, thereby killing ourselves off and taking a ton of other species with us. sad, really. we're a danger to ourselves and our fellow beings.
that said, it doesn't mean that everything is or should be gloom and doom regarding our current situation. the lady christine warned me against falling into the "rabbithole" of gloom and doom environmentalism because ultimately it could just lead me into a deep depression about how un-saveable the world is. it's good to be reminded of the positive things sometimes. (i'm not an eternal optimist.)
fifteen minutes isn't quite up yet, but i feel like i'm done for the day.
have a good one!
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3 comments:
I love the garden pictures ! And have a great time on the heart walk/run ! I hope you're having as great weather as here-- sunny and relatively cool. Keep on the sunny side !
--Teresa
Emily makes some great points... love those bio majors... they are always so ummm practical?
Good luck tonight, Lady!
I'll be sending lovingkindness your way while I meditate tonight.
Thanks, Lady!
and Teresa, it's sunny and beautiful here! the paper calls it "seasonable weather". nice.
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