“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
– Albert Einstein
Wow… November, huh?
I mean, I’ve managed to go without updating Bloggle for a while at a time, but this is a stretch even for me.
I had the best of intentions, of course. And it’s only on the occasion that I picked up…
Have I mentioned that I’ve been stupid busy lately?
I was certain I had, but… you know. Memory. Goldfish. Mad Cow. Mooooo. Regardless, I haven’t yet forgotten I’m supposed to be writing something here from time to time.
Let’s see… my last post…
Herself and I had a too abbreviated experience in Vancouver, owing to a increasingly typical SNAFU on the part of United Airlines — %&#$!%, United! — which left us in Chicago for, oh, some 24 hours longer than we’d planned. (Chicago, you…
Firstly, to all who’ve kindly expressed their well-wishes about Jessie, online and offline and in real space, thank-you. And while, yes, I *did* consider (for about 0.002 seconds) writing an, “All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Dog”…
Yesterday our time with Jessie — our lovable, neurotic and blind golden retriever — came to its inevitable end.
For some while my wife and I have known it was nearly Jessie’s time… that the discomfort of living with glaucoma was reaching the…
It’s sunny and seventy-eight degrees. The sky is powdery blue, and a warm breeze carries the scent of fresh earth and early blooms.
This can’t possibly end well.
‘Cause face it — this is Vermont. You get sunny days and seventies in the month…
This last is a tip from Lifehacker, and it’s a winner. Herself did this last year, and we both found it useful.
Bloggle is the online playground of Doug Cadmus, a usability guy, writer, photographer and sometime dramatist who moved to Vermont for the coffee. When not writing, reading or walking his old, blind golden retriever, he roasts coffee in his garage and is the Web Guy for Green Mountain Coffee in Waterbury, VT.