Infinity

Afternoon,

For me Cancer & Paralysis were not on my Dance Card but, A friend  told me, of all the folks he knows, no one is better prepared for this adventure. Yep an odd way of saying "You can get through this" but I'll take the inspiration  from the honesty of that moment.

Recently returned from NIH for follow-up and the 3 Anaplastic Astrocytomas seem to be going away instead of me. 6 more cycles of Temodar to go and am Psyched for all six.

In the meantime, have been refreshing my mind through the Cosmos Series

 http://www.hulu.com/cosmos

While HULU has all 13 episodes with minimal commercials, was able to find full episodes uninterrupted on Guba and You Tube.  Just finished (#9)The Lives of Stars and am getting through(#10) The Edge of Forever which brings me  to guitarist Kaki King and her take on Infinity.

 http://www.ted.com/talks/kaki_king_rocks_out_to_pink_noise.html

Seeing it

Hearing it 

Infinity

 

is

 

Invigorating

As Usual,

 Enjoy

Peter Lott Heppner

Happy Memorial Day

From IKE

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682

From Rummy

http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430

From me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmrZTHlaD9I&feature=channel_page

To you

Will Do

Peter Lott Heppner

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Brain Injury Advocacy

Mornin',

Pass along this PDF

http://www.biausa.org/elements/media/biaa_cog_rehab_position_statement_2007.pdf

Chit with ya'

Whenever,

Peter

Next Question

24 hours is 24 hours
just like,
100lbs of feathers is as heavy as 100lbs of Gold

However,

How long does it take to get back to where we once were?
This includes rebuilding one's computer to priore specifications with a rebuilt computer.

As long as is required and it will always be in the past sooo, answer is Never! or for the delusional, psycho babble gobble dee gooked; the rest of one's life or at least till breakfast or after coffee or...

Patient Ambition is required to aspire.

Peter

How much time is there in 24 hours?

Recently a relative  told me that they were  so busy they hadn't time to open mail, the "old" kind in an envelope, let alone the volume deleted using the "new" kind.

Non-Replies to well wishes could get perceived as indignance or rudeness or at least a small feeling of irk by the sender.  Marketing Solicitations don't Count.

My mail is thin, manageable, welcome in any form, indicating a different kind of relationship with the world.

As this morning of 45 degree farenheit drizzle, nurtures grass seed, levels turned dirt, a trip is taken on a recumbent trainer.

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Time for my 350 mg of Temodar Day 4,  6th cycle.

Getting back to TOO BUSY.

Meals-on-Wheels will be by in a while.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Lots of Engineering & Manufacturing there.

In the details you can see the exclusive community (justifiably so) required for such an enterprise of human ingenuity  & expertise.

When one looks at an acorn again, what does one see? An Acorn? or an Ecosystem?

The same can be said for a pencil. Count the people that enabled its' existence.  In addition to the forrester, there's the miner, the trucker, the secretary, the sales representative, the printer,assembly line designer, the chemist, the machinist, the tree sap harvester.

The metallurgist.

The mathematician in it all.

oooo, aaaa, algorithims

Tatiana at 2

Back to busy.

If someone has the time to insult, do they also have the time to compliment?

If someone has the time to hurt, do they have the time to heal?

If someone has the time to lie, do they have the time to be honest?

If someone has the time to deceive, do they have the time to be selfless?

If someone has the time to smile, what are they doing?

If someone has the time to help, what are they doing?

If someone has the time to inform, what are they doing?

If someone has the time to reply, what are they doing?

Need more Keppra,

Need more Zoloft

Call Eva

Back to Busy

Phrases like " you're not on my list of priorities" float with revelations.

How many cliches can a person use to sound authoritative?

What are the contra-indications of that type of communication style?

What are your intuitions?

TOO BUSY means?  Perimeter? Shield? Filter? Funnel?

Thank God for Coffee

and Chocolate

and this swivel chair.

and the electric company for fixing the power failure of 9:03am by 11:30am.

now I'm having a power failure

the computer has a ghost in control

be back later

 it's 11:58am

Later is now 7:25pm

almost time for evening Keppra

part of the adventure with anaplasty

Dow Down 184.22

Rain delay for Cubs vs. Padres

Lights are on

Tarps are being pulled

 Keppra Down

Tarps off

Let's play Ball

Back to Busy?

Nope!

Ron & Pat

Play by Play

 

Today, lots of Napping 

Yawn, Yawn, Yawn,

Then Groceries & Medicine

Getting well takes energy

The recumbent trainer

will work me back

I'm a Lucky Man

Areola cheers

Cubs 5 Padres 2

bottom of the 4th

rain returning

Peter

Looking for Cloisters

Hello fellow outcasts

Mornin' Non-members

Sneetches without Stars

on bellies of thars

Created equally

Different at birth

Living Life

Discovering Borders

Wherein Venturing

Separated by Resilience

Care to connect?

This work in Progress

Physical Walls

 contain,

 restrain

Mental Walls

confuse

deceive

Ah this internet

turns thought into microbe

allowing visa free travel;

these are the blessings

of healthy addiction

to growth

Just Asking

____________________________________________________________________

What's our Name?

From 

Ted.Com

"Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change."

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

I would be honest, for there are those who trust me.
  —Howard Arnold Walter

Some of those around us seem to see only the good in us. They trust and respect us, even when we ourselves may not feel we deserve it.

A young girl once talked about her grandfather. She said, "He was the only person in my life who saw the good in me." She mentioned that she sought to please her grandfather and not disappoint the trust, which he placed in her. He brought out the best in her because of the way that he looked at her. Each of us can be like this grandfather by focusing on the good in other people. We can use our spiritual eyes to see love, honesty, trustworthiness, and unselfishness in the heart of another. As we look for the good, we are doing our part to help create it.

Do I see the good in those around me right now?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©1985, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

Being, Beingness

For me

God

 is

 Life

is

 Beingless

is

 Beingness

I am

 a

 being

Surrounded 

by

 God

and

 the 

Godless

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Generation Baseload

When it comes down to whose physiology is more immune to Carcinogens, Genetic Recombination will determine that the wealthy are just as disease prone as the impoverished, and as much in need of a night light to read.

This is Chapter 7 of 9 From PBS Frontline's Heat 

Very Informative about Information Manipulation, Short Term Memory Loss, Capitalistic Gains versus Environmental Damage.

Definitely worth passing along,

Chit with ya',

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. Watch the Entire Report

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/

P.S. 2 From the Arctic 2 hours ago Today

http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/The_countdown_begins

Push-ups

IN an I.Q. test,

The Tongue is described as being the strongest muscle in the body versus the bicep, or the hamstring or the brain which is an organ.

So  I tried to do some armless push-ups.

It's awkward expaining the need for stiches, gauze and rhinoplasty.

Peter Lott Heppner

Beings

We all will be beings that were

Hopefully

 We  all can be beings of worth

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On those notes

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

"Take it away at once," stormed the Princess, stamping her tiny foot in its embroidered slipper. "I hate real flowers; their petals fall off and they die."
  —Hans Christian Andersen

If love is reserved for things that never die, love is doomed to die. If flowers fade in a minute or two, will not stones wear to sand in time? Even this earth, this garden of life, one day will be like the dust of stars. We must walk gratefully, carefully on it now. Now is the lifetime that passes here, now is the best of all days; now is the flower's eternity in the sun, our chance of a lifetime.

This is all we have, this moment. Within it, anything can be done, any dream fulfilled, if we only use it well. Why hold back? There is nothing to stop us.

What can I do to use this moment well?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©1985, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

The Health of Air, Water, Soil, Integrated with all that has lived, is living and hopefully will live are full body concerns of mine.  Shuffle through my archives and you'll read testimony of my interests which are as diverse as the moments that have brought to this one.  This morning began with the usual readings and bemusement arrived in the Today's Gift entry.

A Sparrow just stopped to say hi. It's spring mating season and the females are being pursued by multiple suitors eager for temporary liason, in order to bring life to an empty nest. The visits are frequent.

Keppra and Zoloft in 30 minutes, coffee cup waits for refill, so what if it's from yesterday and outside cool temperature, a hot pot is only 5-10 minutes away.

Draft autosaved at 7:10 AM

54 Farenheit and it looks like the Rain Gods are going to do their duties.

Getting back to Air Water Soil & Fate:  Prior entries and Today's Gift remind again of seamless connectivity that  is everywhere, everyday.

A municipal maintenance truck arrives under the Ravenswood tracks then Nextel's  dispatch. 

• Private Contractor Logo unfamiliar, 
• conversation distant
  
• they wait

Waiting for an idea

Draft autosaved at 7:24AM

Chit with ya'

Peter 

Social Cognition

From MIT World

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/341

Change Your Mind: Memory and Disease

Thomas Insel
Li-Huei Tsai
Kerry Ressler
Ira Flatow

December 1, 2005

Running Time: 1:25:36

About the Lecture

"How do we distinguish our friends from foes? How does dementia destroy memory? And how can past experience invade the present with destructive force? Scientists are closing in on the biochemical roots of these neurological puzzles."

Repeat

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Repeat

Repeat

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Repeat

Peter 

tenth's (1/10's) of a degree

From MIT World

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/431

Climate and Energy: Uncertainties in Forecasts and the Problems of Scale

About the Speaker

RONALD G. PRINN SCD '71

TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Director, Center for Global Change Science; Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

June 15, 2006

Running Time: 1:01:47006

“The climate issue exemplifies the challenge between sustaining a habitable planet and satisfying everyone’s ambitions on the planet to live a better life.”

Ronald Prinn

That was the jist

 2 11/12 years ago, with data back-up

about the air

 we Share 

Peter Lott Heppner 

agua, water H2O HOH Wasser mizu shuǐ Eau Ha'

Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems

Rafael Bras '72, MS '74, ScD '75

March 30, 2009

Running Time: 1:05:18

From MIT World

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/658

"Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science, is MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2008-2009."

“It covers 70% or so (of the planet), but even more, water in the hydrology cycle sets the environment, makes life on Earth feasible, and whether we like it or not, we depend completely on it. It is the circulatory system of Earth, it is the lymphatic fuel of Earth.”

Rafael Bras

Along with air

Another thing we all share,

Have a word for

 a need for

And belongs to all Life

No One owns the right to it

Yet all are responsible

to hold those accountable for damaging it

Those are We

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How does a person survive death?

From Yale University

Via

http://academicearth.org/lectures/dualism-physicalism

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

"Professor Kagan discusses the two main positions with regard to the question, "What is a person?" On the one hand, there is the dualist view, according to which a person is a body and a soul. On the other hand, the physicalist view argues that a person is just a body. The body, however, has a certain set of abilities and is capable of a large range of activities."

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It'll sink in,

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. From http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

I have spread my dreams under your feet; 

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  —William Butler Yeats

When we hold a piece of crystal to the light, it paints rainbows on the wall. When we tap it lightly with a spoon, it sings like a bell. But when we drop it, it shatters in colorless, silent pieces on the floor.

Human beings, sometimes to our amazement, can be as fragile as glass. It's especially easy to forget what makes people we live with or have known for a long time shine or sing. We take for granted the very qualities that made us love them in the first place.

When we forget how to see and hear the people we love, how to appreciate them, we grow careless. Too often, from sheer neglect, the relationship between us grows dull and silent, then slips, falls, and shatters. Paying attention to other people's needs and feelings can prevent this.

Whose presence can I appreciate today?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©1985, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

My Kinda' Contagion

 Pick your Propaganda

Stick with it

Pick your cause

Live with it

"Enthusiasm is Contagious

Let's start an Epidemic"

Viral Videos

(A)H1N1

OR

Get Choreographed

"Smile

it increases your face Value"

Here From Charity focus

A Random Act of Song and Dance

♫♪Doe a Deer...♫♪

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That was Good for me

How 'bout You?

Peter Lott Heppner