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Which?
How about both?
Wisdom?
I make no special claim for myself, but as I age I no longer get involved in self-destructive activities that devour my time and my life.
Bedtime
I usually go to bed shortly after midnight, unless there’s a great movie on TV. I wake any time between seven and ten in the morning, depending on how much sleep I feel I need.
Comfort
Daily writing prompt
What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
- Most nights, I get eight or more hours of sleep
- I use mindful meditation to calm me down
- Most of the time, I prepare my own meals
- If I feel my body needs it, I take a nap
- Very important: I avoid getting sucked in by the news on TV
Future
Nothing. I am 80 years old, and thus—as they say in chess—well into the endgame.
Summer Is Icumen In
The Malibu Pier at Sunset
It’s not quite here yet, but it’s coming. Lhude sing cuccu … or whatever. Summer has its moments in Southern California. Mostly, it’s just hot.
This time of year, I like to read works by William Faulkner (this summer, I’ll tackle his Collected Short Stories) and travel books about Arabia and India (I’ve already begun Charles M. Daughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume I). Then, too, I will read the Travis McGee novels of John D. MacDonald and some Icelandic detective stories.
I will drink ungodly amounts of iced tea. I know it’s a powerful diuretic, but it does moisten the palate. This summer, it will mostly be the Ceylon loose tea from Ahmad of London. After the autumn equinox, I’ll switch to Darjeeling (when I need a lift) or Baruti or Ghalami Assam.
When it gets too hot, we’ll have a picnic lunch at Chace Park in the Marina and revel in the cool sea breezes, which typically die within a few hundred feet of the shore.
I will sleep without covers at night, usually with the window open. I will have to listen to all the dysfunctional car alarms, the patron’s of the bar across the street, and the cursing and moaning of all the street people.
In the end, it’s doable. One thing I will not do is travel—unless I could afford a flight to Alaska or Patagonia. The desert will be blisteringly hot, and we are surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert.
Memorable
My most memorable vacations were to Yucatán, Peru, Patagonia, and Iceland. My least memorable vacations were going back to Cleveland to visit my parents and be treated like a 4-year-old.
Authority
I am a published author on the use of census demographic data in site location analysis, but that was a long time ago.
Worry
I try not to worry about the future because worry tears you down over time. There are things happening to this country that concern me, but I have no intention of succumbing to worry. That goes against my instinct for survival.
Tarnmoor 
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