warm hands = puppet hands!
parked & sketched, random house in Berkeley, CA, is it yours?
2/26/12
2/22/12
career night
PANEL Career Night @ Merritt College
Where is my education taking me? What employment opportunities are available to me? What ice cream flavor is better - *coconut or jasmine green tea? Q&A panel, meet & greet, discussion thing at the Horticulture Department next Tuesday, 2/28, 6-8PM.
* It's coconut! @ Tara's Organic Ice Cream on College Ave., Berkeley.
2/21/12
music
LOVE OF THE DAY music
Franz Liszt, Liebenstraum (Love Dream)
1. Franz Liszt, piano @ 90.3 fm classical kdfc
2. Spanish guitar @ 91.5 fm kkup people's radio
3. Zydeco, live @ Bluz By You Cajun restaurant
give me a piano, please.
2/14/12
2/9/12
SCORE
WORKSHOP Small Business Fundamentals, Silicon Valley
Every month @ Silicon Valley SCORE in downtown San Jose
Next one: Saturday, February 18th 8AM-4:30PM, $70
covers business plans, cash control & records, taxes, business law, banking, insurance, marketing & sales.
(SCORE is a national service that offers free business consulting, mentoring, and workshops for start-ups and entrepreneurs.) Found out about this workshop from the SBDC/Small Business Development Center, which offers free one-on-one consulting to established business.
2/8/12
today
TODAY I pruned fruit trees and it was great.
Thanks to:
For summer (& winter) pruning of fruit trees:
1. Define the general form.
2. Thin for optimal light exposure.
3. Cut to weakness.
yayyy
2/7/12
Film Festival in San Jose
FESTIVAL Cinequest Film Festival 22
' n e v e r e n d i n g p a s s i o n '
Found a guide to the Cinequest Film Festival on the dining room table today... go San Jose!
February 28 - March 11, 2012 @ downtown San Jose
$10 general per film, $5 students (student ID 4ever!)
H i g h l i g h t s :
Thursday, March 1st, 7:30PM @ Camera 12 Cinemas
Shorts 1: Beginning, Middle, End: 6 shorts to remind that life is beautiful, painful, difficult, but most of all, a blessing.
Saturday, March 3rd, 7PM @ California Theatre
Let the Bullets Fly: Machiavellian mind games, a twisted vendetta, and high-octane gun slinging...
Saturday, March 3rd, 4:15PM @ Camera 12 Cinemas
Unfinished Spaces: Three brilliant architects reveal a different Cuban revolution.
Sunday, March 4th, 1:15PM @ Camera 12 Cinemas
Shorts 4: Animated Worlds: Why accept our reality as the only one?
Saturday, March 10th, 11aAM-12:30PM @ Camera 12 Cinemas
Youth Voices: films by youth on 'issues'
Sunday, March 11th, 11aAM-3PM @ California Theatre
Encore Day: gourmet food trucks + award winning films
2/5/12
Legacy Project
PROJECT Legacy Project: Lessons from the Wisest Americans
The Legacy Project is a research project/database of advice from American elders compiled by a professor of human ecology at Cornell University. Interviews, articles, and lessons. From the project, a top ten list of life advice:
1. Choose a career for the intrinsic rewards, not the financial ones. Although many grew up in poverty, the elders believe that the biggest career mistake people make is selecting a profession based only on potential earnings. A sense of purpose and passion for one’s work beats a bigger paycheck any day.
2. Act now like you will need your body for a hundred years: Stop using “I don’t care how long I live” as an excuse for bad health habits. Behaviors like smoking, poor eating habits and inactivity are less likely to kill you than to sentence you to years or decades of chronic disease. The elders have seen the devastation that a bad lifestyle causes in the last decades of life – act now to prevent it.
3. Say “Yes” to Opportunities: When offered a new opportunity or challenge, you are much less likely to regret saying yes and more likely to regret turning it down. They suggest you take a risk and a leap of faith when opportunity knocks.
4. Choose a mate with extreme care: The key is not to rush the decision, taking all the time needed to get to know the prospective partner and to determine your compatibility with them. Said one respondent: “Don’t rush in without knowing each other deeply. That’s very dangerous, but people do it all the time.”
5. Travel More: Travel while you can, sacrificing other things if necessary to do so. Most people look back on their travel adventures (big and small) as highlights of their lives and regret not having traveled more. As one elder told me, “If you have to make a decision whether you want to remodel your kitchen or take a trip—well, I say, choose the trip!”
6. Say it now: People wind up saying the sad words “it might have been” by failing to express themselves before it’s too late. The only time you can share your deepest feelings is while people are still alive. According to an elder we spoke with: “If you have a grudge against someone, why not make it right, now? Make it right because there may not be another opportunity, who knows? So do what you can do now.
7. Time is of the essence: Live as though life is short—because it is. The point is not to be depressed by this knowledge but to act on it, making sure to do important things now. The older the respondent, the more likely they were to say that life goes by astonishingly quickly. Said one elder: “I wish I’d learned that in my thirties instead of in my sixties!”
8. Happiness is a choice, not a condition: Happiness isn’t a condition that occurs when circumstances are perfect or nearly so. Sooner or later you need to make a deliberate choice to be happy in spite of challenges and difficulties. One elder echoed almost all the others when she said: ““My single best piece of advice is to take responsibility for your own happiness throughout your life.”
9. Time spent worrying is time wasted: Stop worrying. Or at least cut down. It’s a colossal waste of your precious lifetime. Indeed, one of the major regrets expressed by the elders was time wasted worrying abou things that never happen
10. Think small: When it comes to making the most of your life, think small. Attune yourself to simple daily pleasures and learn to savor them now.
#6 and #9!
PLAN TO PLANT
Looking to employ myself! In the meantime, planning a vegetable garden at home - this week, started tomatoes, eggplant, okra, peppers, a couple of varieties of each. They are currently sitting next to the window, protected. I am sitting next to them, waiting. Almost ready to plant - Japanese bunching onion, Chinese flowering cabbage, and chrysanthemum greens.
T O M A T O E S
Bonny Best The famous old canning tomato that was introduced in 1908 by Bonnie Plant Farm in Union Spring, Alabama. It became one of the most respected canning varieties in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Medium-sized fruit are round, red, meaty and loaded with flavor. A good producer that makes a fine slicer too. Becoming hard to find due to modern, flavorless hybrids.
Orange Icicle Sweet, rich and flavorful with strong citrus overtones made this Jere’s favorite eating variety last season. We just couldn’t get enough of the sweet, luscious, glowing orange icicle-like fruit that are like an extra long paste tomato. This variety also makes a lovely orange ketchup and a superb salsa. It was a definite winner, and plants were quite productive. In our opinion, this is some of the Ukraine’s finest tomato breeding.
O K R A
E G G P L A N T
Ping Tung A wonderful eggplant from Ping Tung, Taiwan. Fruits are purple and up to 18 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. This variety is so sweet and tender, superbly delicious! One of the best Chinese eggplants on the market.
Udmalbet A rare colorful eggplant from India. Egg-shaped fruit are light green, streaked in purple. Used in chutneys & curries; from a Tamil village.
P E P P E R S
Jimmy Nardello This fine Italian pepper was grown each year by Giuseppe and Angella Nardiello, at their garden in the village of Ruoti, in Southern Italy. In 1887 they set sail with their one-year-old daughter Anna for a new life in the USA. When they reached these shores, they settled and gardened in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and grew this same pepper that was named for their fourth son Jimmy. This long, thin-skinned frying pepper dries easily and has such a rich flavor that this variety has been placed in "The Ark of Taste" by the Slow Food organization. Ripens a deep red, is very prolific, and does well in most areas.
Up Chimayo Red hot pepper we got from the UCSC Farm & Garden.
Santaka Chile Popular in Japan for their hot and spicy flavor, Santaka peppers are only 2 inches long, but pack a punch. Use fresh peppers in a variety of Asian dishes such as stir-fries and soups. Peppers can also be dried.
Hot Paper Lantern The same blistering heat as a Habanero, but much better adapted to the north and much earlier to produce elsewhere. Lantern shaped, 3" to 4" long fruits are also bigger than a habanero. Tall, vigorous plant gets loaded with fruits.
S E E D S <3
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