Journal - Thor - Burnaby

There are breaks in the clouds with blues sky. It’s brighter and warmer outside.  Madigan is well. I am well.  It’s a new day. Hump day Wednesday

Thank you Lord for Carbons Dioxide.  Thank you for Oxygen. Thank you for the periodic table, Thank you for history and learning.  

Thank you for the new soft sensuous feeling SAXX and Jockey underwear.  I remember when Stanfields were rough and harsh but today I have the pleasure of clothing for an emperor or queen,  I like the pleasures of aging.  Young we prided ourselves in not washing some of our sports gear. Today i wash everything. I like being fastidiuouds today but I’ve never been a pig. Just not washing in winter hunting expeditions of a week or so. Changing standfields socks and long John’s and tshirts but not worrying about clothes or comfort so focused on moose hunting,.  We did have wet ones.

I love wet ones today too.

Sailing I loved being clean and living in just a sarong or shorts and sometimes a T-shirt.  I loved the lightness of dress in the tropics.  In the sub arctic wore layers of clothings and parka and wool pants and heady boots and mits and toques.  

I have become a softy with age.  I like the looseness and freedom and lightness of being,

I could live naked except for a loin clothe or khaki sailing shorts.  A couple of pair for washing every day or so. I used to just wear jeans and wash camping with a bar of soap wearing the jeans in the water.

I miss the lake here. It’s great being near work and having this urban routine but living as I might in the country but I’d like to be able to go out in the morning for a swim. 

I loved running naked down the dock and jumping into the lake as the first event after toilet before making breakfast.

I was a stoic young and read Marcus Aurelius but now I’m becoming a hedonist/epicurean.  I like putting lotion on my skin and sun tan oils when I’m outside.  I love Olay SPf 15 for my face.

I’m thankful for all of these luxuries.

Thank you for indulgence.

I dreamed that I was at the conference in the mountains and that women were helping me.  I especially liked one older lady who was untangling  a sweater for me. I loved remembering my mother untangling my fishing line when I was a child and we went out fishing with Ron and Dad and Her and I as a family.  Dad was impatient and only he and Ron seemed to have a line in the water because WI was always tangling my line and mom was untangling it patiently as I was frustrated wanting to catch fish.  I was 6 or 7 at the time.  

I had the fondest memories of childhood and my Dad and Mom helping us.  It’s probably why I like the baby elephant movies.  Thank you God for caring loving parents and kind communities and learning. 

I took Madigan to the off leash dog park and picked up mail.  I continue to work and be of service and am thankful for my health. Thank God I’m alive.  Thank you God for this day and all it’s possibilities.,