Comments on: Concentrating the Mind

By: Sharp Sand » Filtered Sunlight

Sharp Sand » Filtered Sunlight — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:08:13 +0000

[...] anxieties, except for the slight — very slight — anxiety of procrastination. And after the last couple of weeks, I’ll take it. Filtered [...]

By: MS

MS — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:29:27 +0000

Joe,

About the dizziness — one possibility: http://www.askdocweb.com/ambien.html — and take a look at other reviews, too, for example at: http://www.askdocweb.com/ambien.html

And all best wishes for the (lunar) new year!

Dr. M

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:20:53 +0000

Except for the fields and lawns, it’s mighty dry:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=el+centro,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=10&ll=32.774574,-115.09964&spn=0.411063,1.380157&t=k

Plenty of sharp sand on the dunes there.

By: jd

jd — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:42:26 +0000

Thanks, Shel. Everything seems well now. My problems seem to be chronic, having to do with the arthritis in my neck, rather than acute. I appreciate your good thoughts. Same back at ya.

By: jd

jd — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:32:33 +0000

Robert, it would have been the late fifties & into the sixties I was spending time in that liminal zone. That would have been just north of what is now Interstate 8 & west of the Alamo River.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:47:56 +0000

Joe, I’m sorry I didn’t comment sooner and I am very glad that the MRI came out OK.

Sometimes I think our body throws things at us, just to tell us to wake up and remember what’s important.

Hope you continue well.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:53:24 +0000

Joe, I grew up under the distant haze of those Mexicalli lights and the eerie stillness of the desert. In some ways I’m sure it’s changed a lot since 1919, and in others the wilderness is probably still much the same. The nice thing about being from such rugged terrain is that it’s unlikely to ever be gentrified. And living on the border is its own weird liminal space. We used to call our trips over the mountain into San Diego “coming to America.”

I guess we have more in common than we know. Ain’t it always the way? Here’s to more humanity.

By: jd

jd — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:21:10 +0000

They live a long time, if not quite forever. From the human perspective, they have the attraction that you can fiddle with them endlessly.

By: Nancy Bauer

Nancy Bauer — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:04:24 +0000

I read to the end and was relieved that your MRI results were good. I loved the fact that you trimmed your bonzai while you waited. Bonzais live forever, don’t they?

By: jd

jd — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:58:24 +0000

Robert, I wasn’t yet a reader of your blog when you lost your son. I have picked up on that wave of grief from some of your subsequent posts, though. Your comment means a lot to me & I agree with you. I hope that this choice point will make me more aware of my good fortune & more humane to others, especially those who suffer.

On a completely different track, I have been meaning to drop you a note expressing my pleasant surprise at discovering you are from the Imperial Valley. My mother was born there in 1919 & though I was born in San Diego, I returned to the ancestral homestead near Holtville throughout my childhood. I have a very deep feeling of connection to that weird landscape. My grandfather built an addition onto his house & put a screened-in sleeping room on the roof. The grandchildren would sleep there on iron cots in the summers, the lights of Mexicali faintly illuminating the sky to the south.