Grandma's Dash

My sisters and me

Giving Directions

Distant Cousin

2 hell in a hand basket

Composition

Venice Body Bldg.

Venice Yellow

For awakening

Pasadena racetrack

Star, retired racehorse

Dash

Wrong foot right shoe

Aunt Linda & the twins

I give up

LACMA

Nordstrom

Shopping is easy when you have no desire to buy.

Jasper Sliding

Niece's Dogs

3 generations

Calif. Xmas Girls

Fortune Cookie

Reading Email

Died and Gone to Dog Heaven

Altadena

Phoenix

Christmas Eve at the airport. What could be better?

Christmas eve to LA via Phoenix. I'm not sure if the people will become Texans right away.

Lunch

So I corrected my cousin who said that it was a cost to a religious person when they fast (i.e. they would be "losing" the opportunity for food, and thus happiness.) I told him that it is a privilege and benefit to fast, because it gets one closer to their path.

Later I asked the Zen priest what he thought and he disagreed with both of us. He said in Zen we try to do things for neither gain or profit.

At lunch with my daughter and wife, I asked my daughter what she thought about my theory that if it gives happiness to do things without gain, then that's a gain. She said, "let me tell you what I've been thinking about." And she went on about something that sounded very interesting, but she'll have to write down what it was all about. One thing I do remember is that (in the book she was reading) people of privilege tend to think more in "bad and good," "right and wrong," etc., while people on the fringes tend to see the whole picture (outsiders?). All for $29.28 at Mothers (I got to pay).

Texas Capital

This is laying on the floor and shooting straight up. We walked 7 miles (the height of Mt. Everest) to take this picture. The security guard told us about becoming a Texas Ranger. You need to pass a test, kill someone in the commission of a crime, and have political connections. There are 123 of them.

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