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Monthly Archives: July 2014
July 30, 2014: Time to Browse, Time to Dream
Today’s Perfect Moment is having and taking time to look around the bike shop. There is just something fundamentally satisfying with looking at new bikes. It could be the mechanical precision or the sleekness of a modern bike that … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection
Tagged bicycles, browse, fitness, free time, freedom, riding, specialized, tarmac, tools, wind
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July 29, 2014: Being Nominated for a Very Inspiring Blogger Award
I was nominated for a Very Inspiring Blogger Award this week. I was pretty surprised to see that in my inbox. I might have written 80 some odd posts, but I do not know how much , or if … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections
Tagged award, recommendations, thanks, very inspiring blogger award
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July 28, 2014: The Monday After the Rain
I probably should write that interaction with my fellow bloggers has been today’s perfect moment. I have decided to hold off on that until I get my thank you post written for that. It is a bit more time … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Perfection, Reflections
Tagged calm, coffee, cool, Monday, rain, zero humidity
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July 27, 2014: Lightning
Mother Nature is awesome. When I say that, I don’t want you to confuse what I mean by awesome. I don’t mean cool, radical, sick, hip… or some other similar word. I mean awesome in the old, perhaps biblical, meaning. … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Perfection, Reflections
Tagged awesome, cool, driving, fish and chips, free stuff, hip, lightning, mother nature, ominous, optimum card, power, radical, shopper's drugmart, sick
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July 26. 2014: No Better Price than Free
I go through a lot of phases or periods or …whatever. I like something, and I get really into it, then the thing fades to the background for a while, maybe a log while, maybe a short while. If you’ve … Continue reading
July 25, 2014: A Walk Amongst the Books
I’ve got it in my head to start riding my bicycle again. As a result, I am doing an overabundance of research. I say overabundance because I have an older bike, but for reasons not even clear to myself, I … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection
Tagged bicycles, books, bookstore, calm, classics, cycling, Japan, Japanese, Kinokuniya, literature, magazines, maintenance, meeting, relaxed
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July 24, 2014: Finding a Bit of the Profound in the Most Unusual of Places
As an ESL teacher, I come across lots of creative English. While my students produce their fair share of it, I am not writing to ridicule them. They are trying, and when they make the effort, mistakes are just mile … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection
Tagged cute, decoration, deep, Engrish, errors, ESL, Japan, Korea, notebooks, poem, profound, quote, teacher
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July 23, 2014: A Calming
Today’s Perfect Moment is all about having time. Too often I am rushing around trying to utilize minute fragments of time to get things done. At times, I am looking ahead to something while the current moments slip away, only … Continue reading
July 22, 2014: The Era into Which We Were Born, The Era in Which We Belong
On the bus this morning, I met one of my commuter friends that I hadn’t seen in quite a while. I have a number of these people on my bus route. You can distinguish these from my commuter crushes because … Continue reading
Posted in Aspirations, Reflections, Perfection
Tagged accept, adapt, Asimov, commute, era, golden age, Heinlein, Kerouac, meeting, Paris, people, science fiction, the beats, the Futurians, writing
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July 21, 2014: Needing the Good to Balance the Bad
Life is full of little headaches. I think that is why I started writing this blog. I knew I had to focus on the positive because there are so many negative things. Today I have decided to focus on two … Continue reading
Posted in lifestyle, Perfection, Reflections
Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, books, bus, changes, chipmunks, classroom, commute, deck, dynamics, eating, reading, squirrels, The Fountainhead
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