27 October 2023

My wife and I watched Interstellar recently, it’s certainly an epic, there’s one idea that the families are sending video recordings and it’s like the astronauts receive a life time of recordings at once. I mentioned that I write these to my daughter, and in that way they’re like the stockpile of recordings. I don’t assume she’ll read any of it, I say a good deed should never assume a thank you. I have coins with Alexander the great’s face on them, it’s done in a style where he is wearing the Nemean Lion which was the first trial of Hercules. As long as I’m around, Alexander is still great. There are parts of the past that we can allow to fall to the waist side over time and other’s worth defending. I’m not going in the streets defending, but I keep things alive; a steward of the land. I got my life in order when I began to plan for the next year, things got really good when I started looking at the 10 and 20 year perspectives. I thought I was doing well with a 300 year plan, but I was listening to the Dune audiobooks while driving to Philadelphia and Leto the second stuck to a 3,000 year plan, his “golden path”. I’ve always been good at finding a path. Land navigation was probably my best skill and I equally enjoyed it. Walking in the woods always knowing where you are, what’s not to like? I even bothered to teach land nav to the baby already, she might need a refresher someday. Today is my last chance to go to the YMCA before the great equipment replacing, it’s also Friday which means I won’t be writing the next two days. There will be a full moon, I plan to start counting how many full moons I’ve seen, this is #1. I like patterns and paths.