I just read my last post. Wow. Living in another dimension. Another dimension. I don’t feel that way at all now. I am living exactly in the same dimension I was living in a month ago. I am having a whole bunch of health issues in this dimension. Pain. Headaches, Sciatic Nerve, Hip Arthritis. I […]

These are Sleeping Beauty’s feet. Socks and sandals. One of the best parts of SB, as I will call her, is that she just does. Does what is in front of her. “It’s cold out. I’m kayaking. Can’t get my good shoes wet. Socks and Sandals it is.” To her, what anyone thinks is not […]

I can’t believe I haven’t posted these photos!!! When I returned from Cape Town, after my gun scare, I decided I needed to do something uplifting, to help raise my mood. It worked! MacAffee Knob is all it’s cracked up to be. AWESOME. SPIRITUAL. COMMUNAL. WHAT A SPOT! The most photographed place on the Appalachian […]

That is Cape Town, South Africa. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. I have been spending a few months a year there for over 20 years. I have never been the victim of a violent crime. Until my last visit. 11 October 2018. That is the day that my attitude got rearranged. […]

My friend Ronnie from South Africa posted this yesterday. A present from his Gran, 25 years ago. Just lovely, right? Just what I needed. https://www.facebook.com/666002792/posts/10155638230987793/ That is the web address where you can find a talk I did on how to love at my cousins’ wedding. Sorry, I think you will have to copy and […]

* I wrote this mostly finished draft, a short time before our return to Cape Town. Things are different now. Muizenburg! Well, my hiking on the AT is on pause. We are off to CT tomorrow for 2 months. Our friend Sleeping Beauty is supplying our lift to a downtown Philadelphia hotel for tonight. Uber […]

If you’ve read my “It’s Not Like TV,” you know the story. I still am not sure if I am ok. I have this division on my life now. I live in a world divided between the OK and the NOT OK place. The not ok life is anxious. Fearful. Angry. Sad. The OK world […]

October 2018 This…is the cottage I’ve rented for the next two nights. Boskloof Swemgat #3. Outside AND inside braai. I had some lamb chops inside tonight for dinner! Yes. I am a meat eater. I try not to think about it!!! I’m going up this mountain tomorrow morning, If it’s not raining! It has really […]

This is the former township now called Bo-Kaap. It means “Above the Cape.” On the hill looking over Cape Town from the Northwest, it’s my favorite section of the city. This is the center of the Malay Culture here. Painted in such bright and beautiful colors, these houses pretty much adorn that part of Cape […]

These are some of my bestest friends. Amanda, Jim, John, me, and Mike. Mike and John, on both sides of me, are very experienced woodsmen. Mike was actually a Boy Scout Leader! Master fire builder, he is! Even with wet wood! Mike and John parked at Rt 309 and hiked the 4, easy and flat […]