18 Days Left

Sun. Oct. 4/09 The Song of the Day Is : “I’ll Take You There “ by The Staple Singers The Quote of the Day Is: Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today. By James Dean
Mon.Oct. 5/09 The Song of the Day is : “To Love Somebody” by The Bee Gees 0710 I still try to go out onto the beach in the front yard just before the sun rises each day at say a prayer of thanks for another day and one selfish prayer with the hope of getting the means to fulfil my bucket list before I die. Each morning one sea lion (in my mind it is the same one each day) must hear my footsteps grinding on the rounded pebbles on the beach as I make my way to “contemplation log “. I make the same clicking sound each time I take the short walk and I am sure she/he hears my approach and each day seems to pop his/her head up above the salty water ever closer to investigate what now must have become familiar sound to him . This morning the sun was rising red from behind the mountains on it’s drift southward , seabirds poped up in front of me as if they were corks stuck to the ocean floor waiting for me to arrive so that they could pop themselves up into the air and then settle on the calm surface in the center of a bulls eye made by the ripples from their surfacing. This morning the sea lion came within 20 ft . stuck his head up and looked directly at me . I think the sea lion no longer sees me as a threat but has become curious Gee I suddenly feel like listening to Joni Mitchels “ California” . Pain and impending death be dammed , if it goes downhill from here it has been a good day anyways. 0820 Dam here comes the pain.