Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Thursday, 2025.10.16 
No man is an island--" Much as we may feel and act as individuals, our race is a
single organism, always growing and branching--which must be pruned regularly to
be healthy. This necessity need not be argued; anyone with eyes can see that any
organism which grows without limit always dies within •its own poisons. The
only rational question is whether pruning is best done before or after birth.
Being an incurable sentimentalist I favor the former of these methods--killing
makes me queasy, even when it's a case of "He's dead and I'm alive and that's
the way I wanted it to be." But this may be a matter of taste. Some shamans
think that it is better to be killed in a war, or to die in childbirth, or to
starve in misery, than never to have lived at all. They may be right. But I
don't have to like it--and I don't.

		Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

2006.12.29

Colorado Winter

A second sizable blast of winter arrived today and Jasmine was wearing the storm’s vanguard late yesterday afternoon. Being a Scottish breed, she is built for cold weather.

Jasmine

So far, the chimes still sing, but the drift is building. There is less wind this go around.

Chimes VI

And for Buddha, nothing special…

Winter Buddha V

This is how I remember the winters of my youth – lots of snow and cold.

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