Just a Happy Sunday Night

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Michael Kane

Just a Happy Sunday Night

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One’s destination is never a place, but another way of looking at things. ~ Arthur Miller

Originally posted on July 26, 2020

So for my weekly post tonight, no lessons, no attempts at wisdom.  Tonight just some personal reflections on my weekend.  Technically my weekend starts at 5PM on Thursday, but COVID 19 has thrown more than a few wrinkles into my job, and so as I was working at 6PM and quite frankly, not happily, working on finishing up a project when I got a text.  It was from my brother, it was a picture of my little nephews looking amazed.  This made me incredibly happy, my propaganda campaign was obviously working.  You see, by training I’m a scientist, I love science.  It comes from having a curious nature, I want to know why, about everything.  I guess given that, it was inevitable that I would end up in science.  So, partially selfishly, but mostly to share my joy of science, since their birth, I have engaged in a propaganda campaign to instill that same joy in them on the hopes of getting at least one scientist out of the eight.  The campaign has been most successful when they are little.  And my brother’s children are 1, 5 and 7.  Happily the older two are also very into books.  So I had sent them a couple of astronomy books and a surprise.  That surprise was a star projector, I own the same one and thought they would dig it.  The image of them when it was first turned on was them staring wide-eyed, mouths agape staring at the ceiling.  That image made me incredibly happy.  My littlest niece had some peaches and when you’re one year-old, peaches win!

My mood has been slowly tanking lately.  Work has been insane this summer, there’s really been no break.  And while I’m thankful, in an economy with over 30 million out of work and a real unemployment rate of 20%, I’m tired.  For over four months, the workload in my office has been at least double.  My assistant has been under this gun as well, and she’s also working from home, but with three children.  She’s been juggling twice the workload and learning how to be a teacher as well. The stress has not been overwhelming, but it’s been constant and at a high level.  I don’t make any claims that I’m alone in this, I think all of us have been feeling it.  Because above and beyond our personal situation, we are currently seeing 1,000 people a day dying from coronavirus.  The political divisions of our country are so deep that they have spilled over into making protecting your very health a political issue.  Our economy is on tenuous footing at best, we’re at least restricted in our ability to travel and see others.  Add to that protests in many cities, some violent, and people are anxious.  I can see it by the lengths of lines in front of a local gun store.  People are scared and stressed and they are buying guns and ammunition I think, to do something they can control.  All of this weight that we are all feeling, I’m feeling as well and it’s weighing my mood down.

So this weekend I needed to just do some things that made me feel good.  For me, both for the good and the bad, a lot of that surrounds food.  When my mood tanks I need to eat well, and feel satiated, one way to do that is with good deserts, comfort food and my drug of choice, Coca-Cola.  However, in trying to control my blood sugar, those aren’t really options beyond my weekly cheat meal.  So I’ve been on the lookout for new recipes that are healthy and would satisfy my desires.  I found a recipe recently that I really wanted to try, a recipe for zucchini fritters.  It’s low carb and does something really good for me, and that is it’s a side dish.  I’ve been making a lot good low carb entrees, but my side dishes have been limited to cooked and raw vegetables and I’ve been missing having something else.  The fritters, here’s the recipe, were easy to make, the only ingredients I needed to pick up were ricotta cheese and almond flour.

So here’s a little review of the process that I went through.  First off, I rarely make a recipe as is.  First, I found the recipe to be a little bit bland, so I decided to add some things to spice it up.  So in addition to the shredded zucchini, I also added minced red bell peppers, scallions, garlic and some jalapeno peppers.  I also used liquid eggs instead of whole eggs, for me that works better if you have to adjust amounts and turned out to be a good thing with this recipe.  Here’s what the batter looked like:

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Then you heat up a thin layer of oil and drop them in:

The first batch that I did had two deficiencies.  First, they didn’t hold together very well, so I added more eggs and almond flour.  Second, although good, they needed a little salt and pepper.  So I decided to, once I dropped in the batter, salt and pepper each fritter and that worked very well, I just did it on the first side.

After that, they came out very well.  The only issues were getting the heat level right, I had it a little to high in the beginning which over cooked them a little.  You have to wait for them to cook a bit before they are solid enough to flip.  If the heat is too high they get over cooked on the first side.  The second was getting the oil level correct.  You want a really thin level of oil.  I made five batches in all, and the last three came out really well.

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I’ve enjoyed them twice so far, first as part of a Mexican food dinner.  I make what I can only describe as a Mexican stew, pork stew meat, beans, black olives, scallions, peppers, jalapenos, spices and a can of my favorite commercially available salsa, Herdez Salsa Taquera.  I topped the stew with some cheese and instead of making the dipping sauce from the recipe site, I used a little salsa verde.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This morning I enjoyed them with a veggie and cheese omelet and some sausage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am really happy with the way they turned out and being able to make a big batch and store them through the week means I will get to mix up my vegetables with another side dish.

Finally this weekend I did a little dreaming.  I have somewhere in the neighborhood of five years until I retire.  And over the last year or so I’ve started thinking about my living situation once I retire.  I’ve decided that I’ll likely be leaving California.  I’m hoping to buy a home in the east, hopefully within a few hours of family, waterfront property and something that’s got a little land, is a little remote but within a reasonable distance to a city.  Rhode Island is becoming a focus of my search, as are lakes in the Adirondacks and Southern Maine.  I spent a good amount of time looking at homes for sale Friday night.  There were a number that fit my criteria all under $300,000.  Some at even half that price, so that gave me some hope to accomplish my goal.

My retirement plan at this point looks like living in that home from Apr/May to Oct/Nov.  I hope to spend three months a year in Oaxaca City, Mexico like I did a couple of years ago.  That means February to May each year is available for travel and long-distance hiking.  I tentatively hope to celebrate my 60th birthday the same way I did my 50th, by attempting a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.  Now of course all of this depends on my health and the universe not throwing any major curve-balls in my direction.  That has rarely been the case in my life, which why I have always said, my planning consists of picking a direction, and the universe will give me a final destination.  Have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane

 

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Hiking Happiness: Bear Creek Redwoods

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Michael Kane

Hiking Happiness: Bear Creek Redwoods

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Look deeper into nature, you’ll understand everything better ~ Albert Einstein

Originally published July, 2019

So I have a friend who is visiting family back east and she left me with a couple of challenges before she went and one of them was to do a new hike.  So, always up for a challenge, I had remembered reading recently about a new trail that had recently opened up just outside of San Jose near Los Gatos.  The trail is called Bear Creek Redwoods and it was the formal site of a Jesuit Theological College and its grounds.  The site is over 1400 acres of secondary growth redwood and fir forest.  Recently the site has been bought and set up as a reserve, trail work has been done as well as some site renovation.  There’s a new parking lot, bathrooms and trails.  There will be more trails in the future but right now the primary trail is a nearly 7 mile hike that leads from the parking area up 1400 feet to Madronne Knoll.

Down at the parking area is a lovely little pond called Upper Lake, sorry it’s just not big enough for me to refer to it as a lake.

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You cross the rode to the Alma Trail and immediately start going up.  The initial tenth of a mile is steep then it settles into a more gradual climb.  There were some beautiful trees early on in the hike.

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A little further up the trail I heard a red tailed hawk calling and here’s a link to that sound, it’s one of my favorite bird calls.

After the initial steep climb the trail settles into about a 400 foot per mile climb.  You do a mile before the first junction to a trail that creates a loop with the Alma trail.  I’ll talk more about the Redwood Springs Trail a little later on.

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Heading past the first trail junction, you climb another mile up to the second junction point with the Redwood Springs Trail.  At the same point you hit the junction point for the Madronne Knoll trail.  at this point you are at around 1800 feet with 600 feet to climb to the knoll over the next 0.9 miles.

The last kick up to Madronne Knoll is good workout.  The knoll is not the most exciting spot, at this point at least for me, I’d hiked up into the fog.  So there was no view off of the Knoll and just a little loop road that runs around it for 0.2 miles.  Perhaps if you catch a day without the fog you might get a view.  However, without the fog and the cool wind that comes with it, the hike might get a bit toasty.

I returned to the parking lot via the Redwood Springs  Trail and I have a little warning for you.  At first, as you expect, you start heading down, but then, after you have descended a few hundred feet you hit a spot where you switchback up about 100 over about two tenths of a mile.  Not a terrible climb but when you are mentally prepared to be descending, to suddenly have to climb hits you mentally, so fair warning.  The trail then runs the 1800 foot contour of the mountain until a quick drop down back to the Alma Trail.

It was really wonderful to be on a brand new trail.  The trail was perfectly groomed, no roots, no rocks, no trees across the trail.  packed dirt and blue stone logging road for the most part.  It turns to a more traditional trail up near the top, but again a trail that hasn’t been beaten on by feet, wind and water for decades.  This made the walking really easy, even when it was steep.  Another advantage is that with no trip hazards, it was comfortable keeping your head up and looking around far more than you normally would. You should carry water, but there are a couple of small streams that cut the Alma and Redwood Springs Trails.  They were small but running in mid-July so likely spring fed and year round.  Even so, I’d recommend filtering if you use them for a drinking water source.

The whole hike, including a nice 20 minute break to eat my peanut butter and honey sandwich took three and a half hours.  I don’t hike fast normally and I average 3 miles an hour coming down so, I was only doing about a mile and a half an hour going up.  That did however include stopping to take pictures and investigate some of the more interesting spots like a fence line and old chimney off the side of the trail.

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As any hike in the Bay Area, there are more people on the trail than I normally like to see, even on a Friday morning.  But it wasn’t horribly crowded, I’m someone who prefers to walk solo, slow and quiet.  That approach gets me more wildlife viewing but even today I saw a red-shouldered hawk, heard a red-tailed hawk, saw a few squirrels and lizards.  The area is said to contain a lot of wildlife (black-tail dear, bobcats, mountain lions etc…) unfortunately didn’t see any of them today.

It was a calm and happy day my friends, hope yours was the same. ~ Rev Kane

 

 

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Pushing Positivity

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Michael Kane

Pushing Positivity

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative  stress  into a positive one.  ~ Hans Seyle

Originally posted April, 2019

Well, a lot has been going on in terms of the job search.  I’ve had several interviews and I have several more scheduled.  I’m hopeful to have an offer soon, but things don’t seem to be moving forward so maybe I missed on the first  job, maybe it’s just moving slowly and likely I’m over thinking the whole process.  You see that’s the problem with job hunting, I have very little control.  I’m someone who is quite fond of control, I feel responsible for my own actions and can be that way because I usually have a great deal of control, as we all do, over what happens in my life.  This is one area however that I have almost none and it has me in limbo land.

As someone fond of control, limbo land is a really terrible and stressful place to be.  You see as this process slowly winds forward and I can’t travel or take off to do fun stuff.  So, I’m sort of stuck hanging out and waiting.  Don’t get me wrong I’m staying productive, I read every day, write almost every day, I study Spanish religiously every day and work out most days.  I’ve also been using my time to catch up with old friends, in fact, dropped a couple of notes on friends I haven’t talked to in over 30 years and was excited to hear back from both.

I’ve also been living in a decent size American city for the first time in a long time and frankly traffic is driving me nuts.  People drive like lunatics and turn into rage monkeys sometimes for purely mysterious reasons, sometimes it’s more obvious.  Usually, I handle all of this pretty well and don’t engage but I have to admit totally and honestly, justifiably losing my cool once last week.  Although I feel it was justified it bothered me that I engaged and so since then I’ve really been trying to push positivity.

What do I mean by pushing positivity?  Just what it sounds like, trying to be overly friendly, kind, grateful and forgiving.  It’s not always easy in a world where people seem to be increasingly self-absorbed.  So it means all of the little things, smiling, being grateful, it means holding doors even for that person who normally would be too far away.  It means being less concerned with getting places fast, letting that guy turn in front of you and sometimes two cars.  It also means doing your best not to engage people as they gripe, grouse, flip you off and turn into rage monkeys.  For a long time I’ve tried to de-escalate these folks by giving them the prayer hands to say I’m sorry.  And I try to blow kisses at the rage monkeys, especially when they are male, they don’t seem to know quite what to do with that, but it typically ends the encounter.

The world would be a better place if we all did this, consistently.  I’m even trying to garner support for the idea of making Mondays on Social Media a non-negativity day.  Try to get folks, just one day a week, to not post politics, disaster, dystopia or other negative topics.  One day a week to fill our feeds with positivity, humor and happiness, I’m going to call it Magnificent Mondays, I hope you will all consider doing the same, and push some more positivity, it will help you have happier days my friends. ~ Rev Kane

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Learning like a child

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Michael Kane

Learning like a child

Curiosity is the wick of the candle of learning. ~ William Arthur Ward

Originally posted November, 2018

I suddenly really have a lot of respect for three year-olds.  Because you see, in terms of learning Spanish right now, I’m basically a three year-old.  The parallels are frightening.  I can tell you in Spanish what I want to eat, I can point to what part of me hurts.  In context and when being able to generally anticipate what the conversation will be about, I’m right there with you.  But when the subject is unexpected, or you use a complicated term, I have a tendency to either stare blankly or smile and nod like a confused three-year old.

This means my life on the Spanish language spectrum is a bloody roller-coaster.  Yesterday in the mini-market by my house I held my own in a conversation with two Oaxacans.  I understood enough of what they said, to be able to understand and respond accordingly and felt really good.  Then this morning at the market, when I pulled out my phone I dropped my shopping list.  A really nice older man pointed at the ground and said something quickly.  I had no idea, at first I thought he was yelling at me perhaps for taking the picture I took, which made absolutely no sense, then I finally caught the Spanish word for paper and looked back to see my list on the ground.   Because the topic was wholly unexpected my brain just couldn’t keep up.

In one sense that seems terrible, but I’m so much better than I was a couple of weeks ago.  Language school here in Oaxaca has been incredibly helpful.  It’s been a really comfortable environment to learn in and I’m really glad I took this opportunity.  My interactions in the street at the market and in restaurants have really improved.  I feel far more confident and more willing to engage.

In many ways in learning Spanish I’m like an idiot savant.  On one had my pronunciation needs a lot of work, my vocabulary is pretty good but at times I’m really advanced.  I have the benefit of having previously studied both Italian and Portuguese.  My level of Portuguese was pretty high fifteen years ago and this has the effect of at times making me seem really advanced, and at other times getting me utterly confused between the two languages.

This situation is exactly what I wanted, I love learning and although at times it can be frustrating, it is a really positive change.  What travel and learning in general do for you is give you purpose, challenge you, get you out of your comfort zone and help you grow, all of these things together will make you happier.  I can’t wait for the day when I feel fairly comfortable in Spanish, it’s not here yet, but I’m on my way.  Have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane

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Happiness Resources: What Does it Mean to be Happy

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Michael Kane

Happiness Resources: What Does it Mean to be Happy

happinessPeople take different roads seeking happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne

Originally published, July, 2018

Today a quick tour around the web looking for resources centered around the question, what does it mean to be happy. ~ Rev Kane

From Psychology Today, What Does it Mean to be Happy

9 Signs you are going to die happy

Being Happy Doesn’t Mean Everything is Perfect

What Does it mean to be Happy

What Does it Mean to be Happy Anyway?

 

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My COVID Times Diary – Do we get it now?

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Michael Kane

My COVID Times Diary – Do we get it now?acceptance quote

Originally published July 20, 2020

When the coronavirus first struck the United States earlier this year, there was a large amount of incredulity from the President on down to the people in the street.  I constantly heard how this is nothing more than the flu.  People debated about how few people had died.  I heard a lot about how shelter in place was a giant over reaction.  People felt very confident that the virus would disappear in the summer, you know, when it got it hot.

People have been, and amazingly still are, protesting mask wearing recommendations as an infringement of their personal freedom.  As if their ability to cover their face should be more important than keeping people alive.  People screamed loudly how this fake health crisis shouldn’t hurt the economy.

Well, let’s address reality at this point.  Here’s a couple of images from today’s Washington Post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What these images show us are two very important things.  The first, at least 137,000 people have died in America from the coronavirus.  That number is certainly an underestimate, by comparison a really bad flu year would be 60,000 deaths.  The number above is from about five months.

The second thing the images show us are, is that at one point we had as many as 2,000 Americans a day dying from COVID. That number which had been significantly decreasing is now starting to trend upward again, we are quickly re-approaching 1,000 people dying a day.  And the number of cases is escalating at an alarming rate, and given the significant lag time between infection and death, it means that the graph of deaths above is likely to continue to climb again for some time.

All these fantasies we put forward in the early days including fully opening the country by Easter, then by Memorial Day all have faded away, as early openings, protests, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July gatherings and even “COVID” parties have led to skyrocketing infection rates.

One of the hardest lessons for people learn is a very simple one.  There are consequences to your actions.  In some countries the government and the citizenry took this virus seriously and life is returning to some semblance of normal.  Countries that acted quickly and stuck to the basic tenets of fighting pandemics have fared much better than the US.  There is nothing complicated about what you’re supposed to do.  You shelter in place and use that time to ramp up testing, quarantining and contact tracing resources.  Once you’ve accomplished that, you slowly and carefully begin to re-open.  You do this with heightened testing so that you catch hot spots quickly, then you quarantine folks who are sick or exposed.  Where infections stay low you can progress with opening, where they spike you shut back down.  It was well explained in a piece earlier this year called the hammer and the dance. You work this process until there is a viable vaccine developed and distributed.  Oh, and while all this is going on, you wear a damn mask, which has been shown to seriously slow the rate of infection.

wear a maskBut in the United States we didn’t do any of these things, we opened indoor restaurants and bars, we didn’t implement mask mandates and even where they exist there’s no real enforcement.  We’ve pushed for even looser restrictions, to open schools for face to face instruction.  We’ve joked that we’re culling the heard, laid off what happens to fate.  At least people do that until someone in their family gets sick.  Chuck Woolery, former Wheel of Fortune game show host, has been on Twitter for months, claiming that the virus is a hoax meant to hurt Donald Trump’s re-election chances.  He became quite the media darling for this, frequently being re-Tweeted by the president and other conservatives.  This week, Woolery’s son became ill with COVID-19, he simply Tweeted it’s here and it’s real, then deleted his Twitter account.

I tell this story to illustrate a simple point, it’s a virus, it doesn’t care about our politics, we are just a host to hit, a vector for it’s transmission.  If we don’t respect what it is, and what it can do, it will punish us, and it has.

This week, amongst rollbacks for restaurants and bars being open, with new mask mandates being put into effect in places where they were previously resisted, we see a sudden reckoning for our laid back attitude about this virus.  As people start to realize that secondary schools are likely not going to be opened this fall, as colleges go to online schedules for likely the entire 20-21 academic year, as college football continues to look like a smaller and smaller and maybe no season, as all of these things that we thought for sure would just be back to normal by this point aren’t.  We may finally be getting it?

So wear a mask, wash your hands, do the things you’re supposed to do.  And I won’t even suggest you do it for others.  Selfishly, do it for yourself, your family and the people you love.  Do it so that the mythical someday of normal life comes to pass sooner than later.  But realize, that time is not weeks away, it will need to be measured in months and likely years.  We had a chance for that not to be the case, but as a society we opted to be selfish, stubborn and ignore the science.  And this is the new reality we face. ~ Rev Kane

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Some of my favorite posts

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Michael Kane

Some of my favorite posts

being happy quoteOriginally posted on July 19, 2020

Tonight I’m being a bit lazy, I just haven’t been inspired much this week.  I’ve dealt with the some work frustration and an unfortunate bout of insomnia, as well as tweaking my knee on a run.  So I’ve spent this weekend taking it easy and trying to recharge a bit.  So for tonight I want to revisit some of my favorite posts.  Enjoy and have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev  Kane

Remember the Sweet Things – Maybe the best story you’ll ever listen to and a great reminder of the beauty inherent in life.

We all have to stop being afraid –  What does your fear limit you from achieving?

What is your most persistent illusion? – A question that we all need to ask, but is always something difficult to acknowledge and address.

Happiness is Not Safety – The beautiful outcomes  of taking risks.

Worry is the Enemy of Happiness – Why we need to worry less and how to do that.

On Hiking Alone – A meditation on the joys of hiking alone.

Appalachian Trail, Precious Moments – Some of my best moments on the Appalachian Trail

AT Happiness: Four Trolls on a Bridge – A short little story about a funny incident on the Appalachian Trail between a beautiful young women and four old hikers.

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Happiness is a few minutes of peace

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Michael Kane

Happiness is a few minutes of peace

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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Originally posted June, 2018

So tonight friends a post inspired by a message I received on our Facebook page.  A group called A&S Elegance sent me a link to a lovely and really peaceful video with some of their original music in the background, a wonderful break, give it a look at listen.  Here are some other peaceful images and videos that you can use to take a little meditation or rest break, enjoy and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane

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Wow, there are a lot of these sorts of things on YouTube so here’s a whole collection:

4 hours of peaceful music by Utopian Sounds

8 hours of peaceful nature sounds by Johnnie Lawson

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A shorter 13 minute nature sound recording by Johnnie Lawson

A 15 minute piece of meditation music by Yellow Brick Cinema, I really like this one a lot.

Finally a quick 5 minute piece by Yoga Meditation Music

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Happiness & Expectations

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Michael Kane

Happiness & Expectations

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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Originally published November,  2019

I think it is a true thing that your happiness is primarily determined by one person, you.  At the end of it all, we determine how we perceive our world; we decide whether what just happened was good or bad, or how we will react to it.  It is our decision alone to determine whether or not we will face the day smiling, frowning, whether we’ll be present in the moment or float through the day worrying about other things.  However, not everyone, and to be honest I’m in this crowd, is to the point of self actualization in their life where the actions of other people don’t impact them.

We’ve talked before about taking responsibility, how to keep others from bringing you down.  The positive effects of smiling, focusing on the good things, and what being kind to others and forgiveness can do for us personally.  In all of our discussions we’ve talked about finding ways around others in order to retain or gain our own happiness.

Today I want to talk about a little different perspective on things; sure there will always be people we have to work around to be happy. However, sometimes we have to give people the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes we have to let people actually exceed our expectations. I know it’s not an easy thing, particularly when people have let you down many times before in your life. It is worth a try though because when it happens, when someone does something positive, something you were so sure they would not do, it’s a magnificent and wonderful feeling. Have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane

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Walking Glasgow

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Michael Kane

Walking Glasgow

Originally posted May, 2019

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Spent all of today walking Glasgow while doing errands.  There was a dual purpose to my wanderings. First I had errands to run, I needed to pick up a few things for the trail. Second, I wanted to walk for at least 5 miles today, I’ll try to do 8 tomorrow as a warm up for starting the West Highland Way on Thursday.

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A mosaic at central station

I also needed to find the train station where I’ll be leaving from on Thursday morning.

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The streets were lively today and I saw someone taking the art of the one-man, pan flute band to new heights. Not just a pan flute rendition of Funky Town, not just the standard one man band, not just an ankle tambourine, not just a guitar, not just a prop Lama but all that plus three synchronized marionettes.

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Again the subtle differences slip in.

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Did you spot it?

First full day in the UK so fish and chips with mushy peas were an absolute must. I’m always amazed at how good the fish always is in the UK and Ireland.

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Saw some great architecture including this giant metal peacock, sorry it’s a bit hard to make out.

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And to be sure, there’s a little weird in Glasgow.

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One of the things that has made me happy has been the little punk edges in town. Seems punk is alive and kicking in Glasgow, lot’s of piercing, punk tees, doc martins and a little bit of attitude.

Off to Thai food, have a happy day my friends. – Rev Kane

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