Now that it’s behind me I’ll talk about it a bit. Yesterday was both an exhilarating and terrifying day. I did the employment equivalent of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane — some might add without a parachute. I quit my job. The one I’ve had for the last 3.5 years. Talked it over …
I’ve probably written about this incident before, but I’m too tired to verify my redundancy so if the tune that follows sounds familiar, sorry about that. But even if I have repeated myself, I’m writing about it again because I draw a measure of comfort from it since in some ways presently I’m in a …
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Too much with the elephants? Really?? Well, it’s not every day you get to ride around on one on dry land — and certainly not quite as often that you get to climb aboard one for a cool-off in a nearby waterway, so you’ll just have to indulge me and/or enjoy the CapCam vid below, …
Susan had my point-n-shoot rolling in video mode when I dismounted Bo at Elephant Camp: More importantly, the organization the provides such unforgettable opportunities does so to benefit both Asian elephants and the mahouts who are responsible for them. Please learn more at www.helpingelephants.org.
Of all the things I was looking forward to on this trip, the one at the top of the list was the visit to Anantara Resort’s Elephant Camp. In a most definitive case of bad timing, the day I was scheduled to participate — yesterday — was also the day I was laid way low …
This past week or two the house has been under attack, albeit by itty bitty bushtits. For whatever reason, they’ve taken to pecking at the glass in the windows along the north side of the house. What’s interesting is that they aren’t slamming headlong into the panes unawares. They launch their entirely intentional attacks after …
(click for the bigger picture) I couldn’t have asked for a better day, a better place to explore, or a better group of people within which to explore it. There was somewhere around 12 others old friends and new who set out for the Eastside from Union Station via the Gold Line on a journey …
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