Elizabeth S-F

There have been stressful interactions at work recently and I needed this reminder. Breathe and remember I can only control myself.

Because sometimes, people might come into a clinic defensive, scared, upset, or emotional. The best part of the person isn’t gonna come out the first day. But if I do my part and help them along, I get an opportunity to see the best part of the person as time goes by."
- Buck Brannaman

End Thread

The last time I was around Tom, he said, 'Don’t treat them like they are. Treat them the way you’d like them to be.' At the time, I didn’t know whether he was talking about horses or people. Later, I realized that he was talking about both. I remind myself of that from time to time.

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"Tom Dorrance once said, 'You can learn anything with these three words – observe, remember, and compare.' He said that beyond that, learn to adjust to fit the situation. That always meant so much to me.

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Poor animals on her farm.

Grey sky over snow covered pasture, red barn in the distance. Border Collie dog walks ahead of the photographer.

View on my morning walk.

Another bit of thawing yesterday and freeze overnight let us walk on top of the pasture this morning. I have a hearty laugh in surprise every time I suddenly sink into the snow. Temp of 32°F / 0°C

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YouTube video by Teacher's Notes 'How much is a million?' | Mathematics book read aloud

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Images from the Book "How Much is a Million" illustrating a Billion. They would stand up past the moon If you sat down to count from one to one billion You would be counting for 95 years.

Image from How Much is a Million. Children in a hot air balloon over a stadium sized body of water with the words: If you found a goldfish bowl large enough to hold a billion goldfish It would be as big as a stadium

The US is spending $1 Billion a day on the war in Iran.

I read the book How Much is a Million by David M. Schwarz, with Pictures by Steven Kellogg, to my children years ago to help them understand large numbers.
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Maybe our representatives in Congress should read it.

My Grandfathers were a Clock Factory worker, and an Insurance Underwriter
AND not to be forgotten
My Grandmothers were a Clock Factory Worker, and an Insurance Company clerk

Keep going.
March 4th!

Trees sparkle with ice, a farm road past pastures. Two Border Collie dogs walk along the road. Red barns in the distance.

View on my morning walk.

Yesterday's snow followed by freezing rain/ice gave us trees sparkling in the sunshine. Temp of 31°F / -0.5°C

Cloudy skies over snow covered pasture.

View on my morning walk Tuesday, March 3.

Too cloudy for Lunar Eclipse viewing at my farm. We are on the east side of the Hill, so likely would not have seen much anyway. Temp of 16°F / -9°C.

The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath*

“Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back”

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View on my morning walk, Monday, 2 March.

Bright morning with temperature of 13°F / -11°C.

Dear March, Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat-You must have walked - How out of breath you are. Emily Dickinson

Dear March, Come in -
How glad I am -
I hoped for you before -
Put down your Hat-
You must have walked -
How out of breath you are.
~ Emily Dickinson

Artwork: George William Russell

I see. Since revealing a person's heart and respiration rate does not seem to be much of a security violation, I am guessing the concern is she is wearing a device that is masquerading as a Whoop and has other capabilities.

YouTube video by Antônio Carlos Jobim - Topic Waters Of March (Aguas De Marco)

Enjoy a song to welcome March.

"Afloat, adrift
A flight, a wing
A hawk, a quail
The promise of spring

And the riverbank talks
Of the waters of March
It's the promise of life
It's the joy in your heart"

Moody grey clouds moving covering over one last bit of sun. Snow covered pasture surrounded by bare trees with a snow topped red barn in the distance. A black and white Border Collie dog stands on top of the snow facing the photographer.

View on my morning walk Sunday 1 March.

Yesterday we enjoyed sun and high of 50°F / 10°C which then froze with this morning's 30°F / -1°C. Dogs and I trekked to the back pasture (mostly) on top of the snow. Once there I proceeded to sink to my knees. Glimpsed a last hint of sun. Now it is snowing.

The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away [FREE TO READ] Every year, the weird, Womble-like ‘kurents’ gather in a medieval town in northeast Slovenia for one of the world’s most flamboyant carnivals

I can never recommend ignoring the news but maybe read this first as.ft.com/r/d2b6ae74-d...

From the photos it looks like she is wearing a Whoop. Hard to tell for sure. Whoop is a fitness tracker not a smart watch. This would explain why she wears a watch and tracker.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

YouTube video by Pete Seeger - Topic Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)

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Painting that looks like a comic book panel showing a fighter pilot in a cockpit shooting down a plane, with text: That was their mistake - because it gave me more targets than I could shoot at" and "No. 4! One more to make ace!"

This is probably either a really good or really bad time to point out that this classic Roy Lichtenstein Pop art painting from 1962, showing a fighter pilot shooting down a military jet, is in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/en...

Cream and seal point (brown) colored longhair cat sits in profile in the sun on top of a closed laptop. Rays of sunshine stream through the window behind the cat causing the cat to be in shade and slightly out of focus.

Happy Caturday from Lefty.

#caturday, #catsofbluesky

and you look down on the train at the person in front of you who's tied their shoelaces in a different way and you wonder, I wonder if they invented that.
Or who did?"

End Thread

But if you sit and cross two threads and then the next day cross three more and then you move them over a little bit to the left or a little bit to the right or you tie your shoelaces in a new way

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And the immense accumulation of information that were taking in now it tends to be a masidan... tends to be a sort of mixture that finally one thing cancels out the other. It's so overwhelming.

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But in the morning, if you've just been talking on the telephone or peeling carrots or hanging out on Instagram, you're not going to see anything the following day except an accumulation of information.

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