Thursday, March 1
5:00 am
It is -10 °C, with a high forecast of -5 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Sunny early this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of flurries this afternoon. High minus 5.
Tonight Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Clearing before morning. Low minus 13.
A brief list of To Do's for To Day:
- Read next chapter (Chap. 5) from Rumi's "The Big Red Book".
- Search for Lethbridge geocache.
- Continue reading "The Stand" by Stephen King.
- Coulee walk.
6:40 am Literature
Here are a few quotes from Rumi's "The Big Red Book". This chapter focuses on the beauty of silence. I loved it. I really must spend more time with this book.
"I have made many elegant speeches to the assembly.
Now it is time to walk outside and be quiet." [p. 69]
"His greatest alchemy is how he undoes the binding
that keeps love from breathing deep." [p. 69]
"Now silence lets the one behind your eyes talk." [p. 72]
"The willow shakes her head,
and I have this to say to language, Leave me alone.
But language keeps chasing me, arguing." [p. 72]
"The heart is a wheat grain.
We are the mill where the body is the millstone
and thought, the moving river." [p. 73]
"You talk about my craziness.
Listen rather to the honed-blade sanity I say." [p. 77]
What a grand way to begin the morning. And to then sit and do nothing.
10:20 am Geocaching
Another cache in the LETHBRIDGE series appeared yesterday. By waiting until this morning I was able to fill in one more date in my yearly calendar grid. There are still 14 empty days for March.
- GC34260 - T
10:00 PM Literature
I am now about 2/3 of the way through the novel but there is still a lot to be resolved.