Mental Models

Take your pick, right?

Captain, Helper

My good cat Captain loves to help me with the laundry.

What that means:  Our washer is not balanced properly, so until I adjust the machine, the washer flips out and becomes unbalanced and galumphs galumphs galumphs.  I tend to grab a book to read and just sit atop the washer (instead of dealing with the balance issues).  Captain, bless his soul, likes to help me and comes running when he hears the imbalanced washer struggling--and so we both sit atop the washer.

Yesterday while I was at work, the washer was in operation and Captain heard the imbalance and came running to the rescue, standing atop the heaving machine and gentling it with his weight, just a bit.

Lao Tzu: "The Uses of Not"

THE USES OF NOT

Thirty spokes
meet in the hub.
Where the wheel isn't
is where it's useful.

Hollowed out,
clay makes a pot.
Where the pot's not
is where it's useful.

Cut doors and windows
to make a room.
Where the room isn't,
there's room for you.

So the profit in what is
is in the use of what isn't.

--Lao Tzu

from Ursula K. Le Guin's
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: 
A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

Red Line Morning

M D U: Profile Pic

Brief swim off Pelican Point,
Tomales Bay, CA:
2/3/18.

A little less than four hours paddling on the bay and probably only ten minutes swimming about and I feel so much more like myself: the saving grace of exertion and immersion.

Swimming: Above and Below

Ophelia: old clay.

Pelican Point, Tomales Bay, CA.

Tomales Bay Outing

Tomales Spit

Pelican Point.