Thursday, January 26
5:00 am
It is -3 °C, with a high forecast of +6 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Sunny. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming west 50 gusting to 70 this afternoon. High 6.
Tonight Partly cloudy. Clearing late this evening. Wind west 40 km/h gusting to 60. Low minus 7 with temperature rising to minus 4 by morning.
Normals: Max. -1 °C Min. -13 °C.
1:00 PM Literature
I sat down this morning and read the 3rd and 4th chapters of "Rumi: The Big Red Book". I continue to be impressed with how timeless his poetry is."
"This is the conversation of being a human being,
the living doubleness.
Cool and in motion like water,
Placed and passionate like fire." [p 44]
"The heart sees the joy of early dawn, the breeze.
What have you seen? What have you not seen?" [p. 45]
"We are a hundred thousand years beyond insanity.
Plato does not speak of this." [p. 47]
"Pumpkin begins climbing a rope. Where did he learn that?" [p. 50]
"The sky answers, All motion has a reason." [p. 54]
"Let me rest a minute,
to let my mind come back and help me describe it to you." [p. 55]
"But do not be satisfied with stories,
how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth," [p. 66]
3:00 PM Model Trains
The ballasting is proceeding smoothly at the moment. I have almost finished half of the inner mainline loop. I spent about 2 hours with this activity this morning and another hour this afternoon.
This is a picture of the ballast on the outer mainline at the back and the outer reversing loop on the right
This is a picture of the inner mainline loop.
