I mentioned the lamenting of weight gain recently and with my birthday about six weeks away I am going to set forth a plan and a public declaration that will help maintain focus through saving face. My goal is to be in the 170's By 7/1. That's 14 lbs. It's aggressive, but doable. It just requires diligence and determination. I will start tracking my progress tomorrow morning. as of today it's 0/14. 0 down, 14 to go. Of course the chocolate chip cookie I bought this morning at the Farmers market was before making this declaration... so it does not count. Meanwhile the hummingbird feeders, they're now stragically positioned about the back yard in a pattern indended to obsure the view of the other two from any one of them. It's in hopes of curtailing the bulling of the dominate male. Which, by the indication of being in my 'bird watcher' phase of mental decline, I am clearly not. I also moved rugs and furniture about again, striving to have no space be unused for more than a handful of days. It's a bit of a rewind, but will be better aligned with the possibilities. We met up with Big Dogs and others at Matt's for a gathering. It was great to see and converse with all of them, and in particular, hearing Steve discuss the experience of writing. It was familiar. To have Dave voice a desire that people take action to defend democracy just after reading a similar historical reference in the Daily Stoic made me consider that I should do 'something', too. I ended the night taking a moment to enjoy the new seating arrangement and the night sky with some headphones and music. It was poetic and insightful, inspiring and humbling. As was my witnessing the colorful red and orange layers leaving a miles~long trail in the night sky as a NASA rocket rentered the atmosphere on route to the Pacific Ocean. How amazing to have witnessed that. How wild to imagine that it's uniquness will likely be constrained to a generation. Changes over lifetimes are irrelevant to those born never knowing otherwise during their own. With all the space debris and amount of technology that will eventually descend, along with of course manned missioned returning more routinely, these will eventually warrant nothing more than uttering "wow" like we do at a rainbow or a shooting star.
