Flowers of Titulcia

 

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St. James Way

A thousand-year old pilgramage which is still popular with all walks of life; even those who walk on four feet.

The Miró version of the pilgrimage symbol near Potomarin, Lugo, Spain in 1999.
A good reference for the pilgrimage (in Spanish) is caminodesantiago.org.

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∞ x 10 = Too Much

I just bought a new work-out DVD by Marisa Tomei which includes a 10-minute workout designed by Key Son. He designed this workout because many of his clients need to keep in shape but are short of time.

This workout is for me because I am always short of time! I work a full-time job, look after the house, the kid, the pets, the car and myself. I can consider myself an expert in making real progress on any subject in a matter of ten minutes.

I can cook a meal, hem a pair of pants and wash my hair or my dog. I can clean the bathroom, wash the car or plan a week’s menu in ten minutes. What can you do in ten minutes?

The problem is that the list of the basic & necessary ten minutes chores is infinite. So, no matter how efficient I am, the day is not long enough. So, here I present to you a list of solutions all of which require some type of sacrifice. Which one would you pick?

Suggestion #1
Hire someone to do the cooking & cleaning for you.
- A financial sacrifice but well worth it if they’ll do the menu planning and the grocery shopping as well.

Suggestion #2
Remove some of the items from the necessary list.
- This requires changing those priorities; but which ones? Cooking so we can eat right or washing the clothes?

Suggestion #3
Ask Key Son to design a 30-hour day.
- This only means more work so perhaps I will consider #4.

Suggestion #4
Just keep complaining that you are always short of time.
- My pick!

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Time Need Not Apply to Flight School...

Because it already knows how to fly.  Have you seen the date on my last post?  One thing that I will say for all this 2.0 technology is that it certainly makes you honest.  No hiding the fact that it has been 4 months (or so) since I have been able to get back to my writing endeavour.

In my partial defense, I was disconnected from the web (2.0 or otherwise) during most of December during the visit to my parents' technologically medieval dwelling.  They do have a telephone and something called a mailstation which is little more than a keyboard and an LCD display that lets you send text messages.  So, I must spend weeks before my visit pulling all the information that I might possibly need during my visit from the Internet; activities, children’s shows, museum hours, Google maps and reservations.  My arms tendons and my neck muscles like the break but the rest of me has problems adjusting.

Absolute technological emergencies are handled by my parents’ neighbor, Karen.  She comes to the rescue when all conventional (i.e., older) methods of acquiring information fail me.  Case in point was a live nativity scene that my daughter and I were interested in seeing out in the country.  Karen provided the printed directions and details from the Internet and we were able to find the farm, enjoy the carolers, the storytelling and the live nativity scene including a Donkey and two sheep from the StarGazing Farm. 

I guess this dampens my dream of returning to a simplier time when, they say, people had more time

-->.  For me, no access to the Internet means that everything I try to plan takes more time!

 

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