I’m enjoying my vacation with friends and our catching up on each others lives and sharing new experiences has been so wonderful and so exhausting. I feel like I’m asleep on my feet or living a dream right now. We have developed an pattern of relaxing on the beach early in the mornings and late [...]

It was an overcast, cool and breezy morning when MrT took me out walking today. I have been trying to further the time and distance I established in my spring conditioning program but I’m not making much progress. I haven’t been sleeping well. I’m experiencing severe joint pain, and spasms in my legs that ZING! me wide awake every couple of hours. Walking seems to help a little but not as much as I had hoped for, and I found myself sitting in the ditch and resting while the spasms passed.

I’ve been considering choosing a hummingbird or a dragonfly as a favicon. I have always identified the hummingbird which is one of my totem animals and where my First nations name (brightfeather) is derived from, so choosing a hummingbird as a favicon is a natural choice but I’m also drawn to dragonflies. I’m asking my readers to weigh in on choosing a hummingbird as a favicon or choosing a dragonfly as a favicon. Please let me know which one you think is the best choice for me and why.

Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

It’s not mindreading but scientists can use high-resolution brain scans to identify activity patterns that develop into thought patterns, revealing what a person plans to do in the near future.

The problem with intelligent, smart, educated people is that they are very good at finding the best excuses. Some time the dumb people succeed simply because they don’t see any reason for failure.