Be vast. It’s knowing you have a freckle in the corner of your lips.
It’s knowing why you bought that ring for yourself and haven't told
anyone what it means to you.
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Lead Picture
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Glacier Point, Yosemite
See ‘Thumbnail’ below
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Today’s Commentary from Kali L
Thursday, June 27, 2019
I have always wanted to live every inch of my life as deeply as possible.
I can't always say I know what that means.
Be vast. It’s knowing you have a freckle in the corner of your lips.
It’s knowing why you bought that ring for yourself and haven't told
anyone what it means to you
Be vast is knowing you can be at a wake in the morning
and dancing all night as someone moves on in life
Be vast, reach into the darkness and pull out your own light
Walk or run as many miles into the woods as you need to in order to feel your
very own life
keep waking up and grasping for one prayer: the one that breathes, thank you
keep reaching out to people and reminding them of just how much they matter
be vast like the ocean you once sailed at dawn
vast like the sky you dream beneath
vast the way the sunset makes you believe that everything will be okay
passionate the way hurricanes destroy so we can get back up again
and keep becoming and keep arriving
be vast in the sway of your hips as you slow dance in a bathroom
this body, these hands-joy; what a gift
vast as the views I cannot name or describe because some things
are too beautiful to wrap in words.
You are never alone because you always have yourself.
You will always matter.
Be vast. Love always, Kali
Time of posting is 12.01am on Wednesday.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Our 447th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 447 posts we’re at the 8.94 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
We are racing to the 10% mark.
Now there’s a mark, 10%.
And then?
And then will remain only 9 more such marks to fulfill our commitment to the blog.
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Weather
Thursday, June 27, 2019
On this day Boston will enjoy warm temperatures, with a high of 79* and a feels-like of 90* with mainly sunny skies.
The next few days will feature varying but seasonal temperatures, seventies to eighties with a lot of sun.
A terrific streak is continuing.
Anyone complaining?
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Dinner
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Open-faced ham and cheese tapas-style sandwiches
Juan Fernández - Fin de semana en buena compañía.
Dinner for Tuesday was an open-faced sandwich, the bottom layer, a slice of Iggy’s Francese loaf buttered with a chop of relish, mustard, onions, olives, bound with 2TB olive oil.
Shredded lettuce dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar.
A slice of rare London broil.
Mortadella.
Swiss cheese.
Heirloom tomato.
A heap of shredded parmigiana.
Baked for 25 minutes at 375*.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Thursday, June 27, 2019
A man walked into his backyard one morning and found there was a gorilla in a tree.
He called a gorilla-removal service and they sent a serviceman who arrived with a stick, a Chihuahua, a pair of handcuffs and a shotgun.
The serviceman gave the homeowner instructions: "Now listen carefully. I'm going to climb the tree and poke the gorilla with this stick until he falls to the ground. The Chihuahua is trained to go right for his private parts. When the gorilla crosses his hands in front to protect himself, you slap the handcuffs on."
"Ok, got it." the homeowner replied. "But what’s that shotgun for?"
"If I fall out of the tree before the gorilla," the man said, "shoot the Chihuahua."
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Today’s Thumbnail
Drawn mostly from Wikipedia as are most of the thumbnails.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The view of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.
Diliff - Own work
Yosemite National Park is an American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California, bounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest.
The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an area of 748,436 acres (1,169 sq mi; 3,029 km2) and sits in four counties: centered in Tuolumne and Mariposa, extending north and east to Mono and south to Madera County.
Designated a World Heritage site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity.
Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness.
On average, about 4 million people visit Yosemite each year, and most spend the majority of their time in the 7 square miles (18 km2) of Yosemite Valley.
The park set a visitation record in 2016, surpassing 5 million visitors for the first time in its history.
Yosemite was central to the development of the national park idea.
Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln's signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864. John Muir led a successful movement to have Congress establish a larger national park by 1890, one which encompassed the valley and its surrounding mountains and forests, paving the way for the National Park System.
Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a diversity of plants and animals.
The park has an elevation range from 2,127 to 13,114 feet (648 to 3,997 m) and contains five major vegetation zones: chaparral and oak woodland, lower montane forest, upper montane forest, subalpine zone, and alpine.
Of California's 7,000 plant species, about 50% occur in the Sierra Nevada and more than 20% are within Yosemite.
The park contains suitable habitat for more than 160 rare plants, with rare local geologic formations and unique soils characterizing the restricted ranges many of these plants occupy.
The geology of the Yosemite area is characterized by granitic rocks and remnants of older rock. About 10 million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and then tilted to form its relatively gentle western slopes and the more dramatic eastern slopes.
The uplift increased the steepness of stream and river beds, resulting in the formation of deep, narrow canyons.
About one million years ago, snow and ice accumulated, forming glaciers at the higher alpine meadows that moved down the river valleys.
Ice thickness in Yosemite Valley may have reached 4,000 feet (1,200 m) during the early glacial episode.
The downslope movement of the ice masses cut and sculpted the U-shaped valley that attracts so many visitors to its scenic vistas today.
The name "Yosemite" (meaning "killer" in Miwok) originally referred to the name of a renegade tribe which was driven out of the area (and possibly annihilated) by the Mariposa Battalion. Previously, the area had been called "Ahwahnee" ("big mouth") by indigenous people.
I write.
Poetry.
But after reading Kali’s piece I think I’ll find a wastebasket for my dabblings.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of June, 2019
Our lead picture was of Yosemite since
our commentary, from Kali L, spoke of vastness.
We chose to go with a thumbnail of Yosemite to tighten the blog.
As usual we posted the Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as a time marker.
We spoke of an open-face sandwich, posted an email from Colleen G, and a chuckle.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.