and don't forget to save, invest, be grateful, be kind, and exercise, too!
Pre-paddle warm up at Yosemite Lake, Merced CA (07/02/2022) As my cousin and a couple of their kids had never tried standup paddle before, we decided to have a practice run at the local Yosemite Lake next to the UC Merced campus. The lake is a 10-minute drive from their house, and is a popular…
003. The Gift (El Aguinaldo) These were some very, very poor children who, on the eve of Epiphany, were walking through a mountain, and as it was winter, night soon fell upon them, but the poor children kept on walking. Then they met a lady who said to them: Where are you going so late…
大器晚成 (Dà qì wǎn chéng) (1) lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly (2) in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state (3) Rome wasn’t built in a day From https://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/bookView.jsp?ID=156 The phrase “Great Talent Matures…
002. The Bogeyman (El Hombre Del Saco) There was a married couple who had three daughters, and as all three were well-behaved and hardworking, they gave each of them a gold ring to wear as a garment [ornament]. And one fine day, the three sisters got together with their friends and, thinking about what to…
大逆不道 (Dà nì bù dào) – Disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society) Source: “The Records of The Grand Historian – The Annals of Gaozu“: Today Xiang Yu killed Emperor Yi at Jiangnan; a most contemptible (disgraceful) act. Explanation: “逆” (pinyin: nì) means to rebel,…