A Living Wall and Bone Health in Everyday Ramblings

This is the local community garden, an unused plot a couple of days ago. I love the light here. There is definitely a fall felling in the air.

During the day the classrooms I teach in are used by a private school. Last night they had parent night and the place was a zoo and they forgot to both unlock the door for us and put us on the schedule.

In the end I only had one student. So many of mine who are retired are still traveling for the summer and I have a couple that comes and the one that is working is on sabbatical. Yes. He works for a company that sensibly gives sabbaticals.

On Tuesday I went with one of my colleagues up to Vancouver Washington (just over the Columbia river but a snarl of traffic to get there) to a Lunch N’ Learn. It was like a school field trip and it was so great to get out of the office and visit another world.

It was at the brand new headquarters of a local chain of pet hospitals. It is gorgeous. West Coast rustic with lots of rough wood and vaulted ceilings and glass and a “Living Wall” like nothing I have ever seen before. The receptionists were professional and knowledgeable, and the food was hot and good.

The employees are allowed to bring their dogs to work so as we sat in the glass walled conference room we could see people taking their dogs out the front door for walks. They must have a dog park around the corner or something. Afterwards the folks from my outfit were all talking about how pathetic our building felt and our work environment in general.

It is nice to know that some enterprises out there are thriving. Pets are good business right now. I was so sad when Kes told me that their local animal shelter had cats for adoption that had lost their homes in the recent Louisiana flooding.

Our lives are so precarious and fleeting and I hope that I can be fully present in mine, the good and the difficult so that I never take the freedoms and the comforts I have for granted.

My library book in the series I am reading was due back today and I am very proud of myself for finishing it last night. It took a lot of focused effort to read that much in a few weeks. I could not have done it without the apps on my phone.

The weather here is changing to overcast and cool and gray by tomorrow so I want to try to enjoy as much of the last gasp at sun for a time as I can.

I now have a calcium and vitamin D supplement and am eating more greens and dairy and have a date with a cauliflower and a roasting pan later today but this other vitamin D supplement I bought made from rice bran is actually supposed to slow down calcium absorption.

Who knew? This bone health thing is a learning curve.

Last updated September 15, 2016