and don't forget to save, invest, be grateful, be kind, and exercise, too!
It had been a while since I was last in Napa Valley, so I thought it’d be fun to paddle by downtown and beyond, exploring the upper stretches of the Napa River past the Oxbow Preserve which I reached the last time I paddled the river. Plus there was a $5/bag book sale at the…
016. The Sweet Doll (La Muñeca De Dulce) Once upon a time there was a king who had only one daughter. The monarchs and the princess used to take walks around the palace almost every afternoon, and in one of those strolls they ran into a gypsy woman who offered to read the princess her…
感恩圖報 (Gǎn ēn tú bào) – Being grateful and seeking to repay the kindness In the Spring and Autumn Period, the general Wu Zixu from the State of Wu led troops to attack the State of Zheng. The ruler of of Zheng, Duke Ding (鄭定公), said: “Whoever can make Wu Zixu turn back and not…
September 17th was Shoreline Cleanup Day across the SF Bay Area. The idea is simple: there’s a lot of trash on our beaches, in our estuaries, along our shorelines, etc. and to give wildlife a chance we’d need to help pick up and put some of that away. There were multiple volunteer sites through out…
015. The Savior Calandra Lark (La Calandria Salvadora) A man who had a family that was the envy of everyone due to their affection for one another and the good directions of their affairs, had the misfortune of losing his wife and was left a widower with an older young boy and a twelve-year old…
負隅頑抗 (Fù yú wán kàng) (1) To use the terrain [to one’s advantage] and put up a stubborn resistance (2) To put up a stubborn resistance From https://www.chinesewords.org/idiom/show-869.html In the Warring States Period, there was one year when the State of Qi suffered from a famine, with many people dying from starvation. When Mengzi‘s student…
Technically speaking, the harbor is located in El Granada, a village that sits about 5 miles away from the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Arriving there at around 10:20 am on Saturday, I had no problem finding parking in the C lot. In fact, there were plenty of spaces to go about, and unless…
014. The Yellow Water (El Agua Amarilla) A king who had become king when he was still very young, was in love with the daughter of one of the guards who looked after the lands next to the palace. This guard’s house was within the boundaries of the palace’s gardens and the king used to…
負荊請罪 (Fù jīng qǐng zuì) (1) lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) (2) fig. to offer sb a humble apology From https://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/bookView.jsp?ID=46 According to the Records of The Grand Historian, Chapter Eighty One, Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, there were two worthy [great] ministers from the State of Zhao…
For this Labor Day weekend, I decided to head back out to Point Reyes National Seashore in Western Marin County and explored Drakes Estero. The Estero (estuary) is named after Sir Francis Drake, an English explorer who supposedly was the first European to explore the area in 1579 during his circumnavigation of the world. There…