Solstice Greetings to all of you!
However you choose to party or pray
May the light start shining on your way..
Moving out of this darkness into the light of a new day
Best wishes for a Happy Holiday!!!
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We have been having crazy windy rainy hailing thundering wild weather for days now with no end in site. I hope the skies part enough to see the Total Lunar Eclipse this evening.
I, for one, am very anxious for the light to return!
My friend just died.
We were tight in the 80’s in Fairfax.
Mahanaim (Naim) Satya - 1987
We worked together at The Good Earth Natural Food Store when it was on Bolinas Road.
We ate together at Wildwood Cafe.
We watched Purple Rain a dozen times!
He ‘turned me on’ to some fun dance disco music (Pointer Sisters) when dancing was my passion..and World Beat bands ruled Marin (think Freaky Executives, Big City, Looters). Although he never danced with me.
He taped the whole Bob Marley collection for me.
He was a complicated man, spiritual, musician, and chef.
He knew me in ways no one else ever has, he had that knack to get at the core quickly.
We lost touch when I moved to Humboldt in 1990, I only saw him once since then probably in ’92?
We reconnected last year on Facebook.
He emailed me last month and said he had a stroke but was healed miraculously.
He died yesterday, December 14, 2010.
Of course I am sad. Crying actually.
One of the things death brings up for me is not only do we miss the ones who left, they took with them the memories and knowledge of who we were to them (a part of who we are).
No one else has those memories of me now, ‘cept for myself of course. So it does feel like a piece of me died too.
Mahanaim Satya (Kenneth Jenkins)
23 June 1945 – 14 December 2010
I was super surprised to get a postcard from Bruce! Handwritten and thoughtful, and thanking me.
Made my day, actually it still makes me smile.
I just love this man.
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Background:
In July Bruce’s mother passed away.
I sent a card with my condolences and some thoughts, having just lost my Dad and both our mothers endured a 7 year bout with cancer.
He was still working on his latest cd recording. He also had a tour lined up to start in the beginning of October, when he developed pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung that canceled that part of the tour.
You can read about all this at Cockburnproject.net.
We bought a new to us Toyota Tundra.
I have been looking online, Craig’s List, from Oregon south to the bay area for a month or more, every day.
Seems like if you have a Toyota truck, especially a Tundra, you don’t sell them. They don’t lose value and there are few to find, especially in the price range I was looking for.
Russel needs a new work-school truck to haul his Aikido mats, his old 1990 Toyota is worn out, but still drivable, so the question was,
“Do we put a ton of money into it to keep it safe and functional, or do we get a replacement?” Then the thought was, ‘well I (me) didn’t want just another Toyota like his old truck, it was uncomfortable.’ And I couldn’t find anything for sale which wasn’t just buying the same problems we have with his 1990.
So after much looking and hard decisions, we decided to pull some money from our retirement account that my Dad left us.
Maybe not a smart idea, but that’s what we did.
2004 Tundra 4x4 Stepside SR5
We bought a 2004 Toyota Tundra 4×4 Stepside SR5 TRD… this truck is like new..really like new. You can’t tell anyone ever drove it. It only had 28,000 miles on it. It’s a bit fancy for our taste, but rides great, I don’t feel like I am in a blender, as I do in both of our other Toyota’s.
We need to get the truck bed a spray on bedliner, and a rubber mat for the bed. Still need seat covers and some really good rubber floor mats.
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Seem’s sort of fitting somehow.. today is my Dad’s birthday.. and he is still giving to us.
