We as humans generally like to live with nature and have nature live with us. I am an animal rights person and I still have a lot to learn and get it wrong once in a while.

For example, many of us have a hummingbird feeder in our yard. In the box stores, they market feeders with red mixture for no other reason to make it look appealing. A hummingbird could care less the color of its water or whether it was purchased at Whole Foods or Winco.

They simply desire sugar and they really need a plain white sugar. Please don’t use brown sugar , confectionery sugar or any variation with red food dye. All they want or need is the sugar. And please don’t try to make the sweetest batch of sugar water on the block. It does the hummingbird no good. Against my basic instinct, follow the recipes and keep your hummingbirds Safe and happy

We can coexist. Have a great day

Do you miss me yet. The west moves in to another unprecedented rainless period. We all walk around loving the warm sunny spring days but it comes with a cost.

I am perplexed by climate deniers. Everything is connected. The lack of rain we receive now will show up most likely at the end of August with firemen fighting wildfires. There’s nothing we can do immediately to make it rain tomorrow or to make it pour the entire month of June.

There are so many things we can do in our daily lives to make this planet more livable in the long run. Hell we can’t even get the population to wear masks. My suggestion for today, is instead of having meat for dinner have some vegetables. It is not going to make it rain tomorrow.

But eventually there will be another animal that is not put out to slaughter. And for now that may be enough.

One thing I am really not that good at is compartmentalism of items in life. During a job interview, when asked if I’m a good multitasker my usual answer is yeah I’m great at it.

In reality I’m not really that good at it. I’ve been writing this computer script that had me stuck for the last four hours. Well to be honest it started at the end of the day yesterday. And until I solved it it was always in the back of my mind. It creeped into the little things in life in subtle ways

I guess that’s not all that out there as we obsess over conversations we just had or keys lost in the sand. But that’s a big one as when my keys or wallet go missing that’s always in the back of my mind and I can’t concentrate on anything else until I find those keys. I didn’t say I can’t work on things I just can’t concentrate on them fully.

What I’m doing here is making fun of myself a little bit. One of my strengths as I can be a relentless problem solver. It is also one of my weaknesses as one problem dangling in the air I have a hard time moving onto the next.

That’s not necessarily a good thing. I can’t sit down and relax until I finish the dishes With the emphasis on the word relax.

Admittedly, the computer script was simple enough to fix but a pain in the ass to find the problem. Now that I found the problem I am relaxed and can move on to the next thing.

Have a great day

This book sat on my shelf for years I never read it. So recently in search of a book I pulled it off the shelf and I was pleasantly surprised. It is reflective to both a human being who wants to do their own thing and a parent who cringes when their own child does their own thing

Most importantly it’s about respect. As a parent respect is earned to a certain degree and given to another degree. Sometimes parents can do all the right things and get all the wrong results. And who’s to say what’s right and wrong. There is no master plan in this thing called life. The usual recipe is you grow up, go to school, go to college get a job have babies amongst the rat race known as life.

Fortunately that recipe is not for everybody and my hat is off to those who take the road less traveled.

Which leads us back to respect. To venture out into the wild One should venture with a bit of humility and the upmost respect for nature. Previously I talked about college, study and the preparation for life. It is not a magical recipe however when venturing out into nature one should actually be prepared.

History repeats itself and many people have ventured into the wild of Alaska and have met with similar fate.

In a final statement, our protagonist gives thanks to God as a true thanks or a last gasp religious salvation. I don’t know where to sit with that.

If there is one lesson to be taken from this book and it is a lesson I learned from my mother. Always let someone know where you’re going to be and by all means give your parents a call. Have a great day.