Amber waves of Edye

With clouds like this, what else could we do but go out and stand in a field?

It begins...

Yesterday saw the kick off of dementiaCOMPASS, a project I've been working on for about 18 months.  For a while, I thought I was never going to get there, but then I realized that its time would come and 'not now' didn't mean 'not ever'.  This has been a lesson I've been exploring for about 15 years and has been gratefully shoved down my throat since I moved to Britain.  You see, things happen slowly here.  There is little of the instant gratification I would have expected from my life back home.  In fact, I don't even expect gratification, i.e., happiness, all of the time, it surely is nice but isn't necessary from every aspect of my life.  This seems to make life a little more enjoyable, strangely even gratifying.

So, when people say to me that I should have done something else to get a better, faster, more improved result, I hear their words differently.  I don't hear 'you did that wrong' as much anymore, instead I hear that given what they know about the situation, they would have played things differently.  Fair enough.  Meanwhile, I'll consider yesterday a success knowing all that I know about the day and all that came from it.

Let's hope I can keep that perspective as dementiaCOMPASS develops and grows.  The next few months will be interesting and I'll keep you posted.  There will actually be a website link soon, but not now and that certainly doesn't mean not ever.

Waving, jumping up and down, trying to get your attention...

- Hello?  

- Hello!

- Is there anyone there? 

- Knocking.

- Banging.

- Uhm, I brought cake.

- Oh, there you are.  It was cake, right?  Well, it would have got my attention, too.

- How are you?  It's been too long.  I know, things have been busy, and well, I didn't think you were there, so I stopped coming.  You always seem so busy.

- Yes, I'm back...  I know I spruced things up a bit.  Oh, good,  you like it.  Well, that's good feedback. 

- Nope, I'm not going anywhere, at least not for the moment.  I have things to share, things to say.  Will you stay, will you come back?  It's always no nerve-wracking, wondering if you're around.

Mobile Blogging

Laptops are nice... they get the job done. But, they're not very convenient. I don't want to take it on holiday with me. I can't use it from the car (as a passenger only, of course - blogging while driving will invalidate your warranty).
So I decided take the plunge into the smartphone age and try Blogging from my phone.
First attempt was to text a registration request to go@blogger.com. Alas, message not sent... So I fell back on the backup plan of Blogging by email resulting in the message you see before you.

The world will never be the same again.

Women and cats will do as 

they please, 

men and dogs should relax 

and get used

to the idea.

-Robert A. Heinlein