Flowergate

Well, now . . .

There will be NO demonstration garden and NO community garden. Since a few people care more about being in control than they care about working together or the long view of benefiting the community, we will not be doing anything which brings us together anytime in the near future.

This has, once again, been a learning experience. I have learned that there are those who. because they are truly small people, will do their best to cause problems for others. . . since it is the only way that they can feel important.

Everyone brings something to our lives. Sometimes it is to be an example of how NOT to be.

I salute our FSD rep for trying to create a community of togetherness and inclusiveness. . . for being a truly humble and giving person.

Mom and Me

I love this picture of Mom and me.

The last six months have been a bit tougher. Mom's health has been up and down, with her being close to death a couple of times in November. Following these episodes, both her hearing and eyesight became significantly worse.

She's been feeling much better since the turn of the year, but adjusting medication is a constant balancing act. Which is more important: kidneys or heart? I say without the heart, you don't have to worry about the kidneys. Mom says she would rather die from congestive heart failure than from kidney failure.

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limits of our sight." --Rossiter Worthington Raymond

I have learned to appreciate the good days.

Demonstration Gardening

We (some of our faculty and staff) are -- will be -- creating demonstration garden plots at the college, which we hope will lead to a true community garden. (I really want to put in a few vegetables at home. Can I do the digging? We'll see. Need to get started soon.)

Our team has two of the large bowl planters in the center of campus, the large rectangular above ground planter (left), and our real challenge is a gravelly strip of ground which is the shade virtually all of the time.

The 6 Myths of Caregiving

The 6 Myths of Caregiving

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Good Riddance!

New Year's Day 2010: Spent some time cleaning and getting rid of things. It's amazing how much junk I have accumulated and how many unfinished projects I have found. There is so much more that I need to get to. Now I have to organize and store the things I really must keep.

Before the Dawn by Dean Hughes


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a story of personal and spiritual growth and the role of the Relief Society, set in the early years of the Depression in the Uintah valley of Utah. This is a good read and I highly recommend it. It's good to be reminded, at this point in time, of how much more difficult life was during the Great Depression. It's always good to be reminded that we can all change and improve, that we should not judge people, and the value of working together.

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Networked Teacher Diagram - Update

Networked Teacher Diagram - Update
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Here's an interesting diagram for the networked teacher. It seems overwhelming and yet, we have people doing all of this. I wonder:
How much we can split ourselves up before we lose ourselves?
How much can we contribute before it's all repetition and drivel?
How much can be linked in before we are burned out?
In our efforts to stay on top of everything, are we beating ourselves down?