Wave walk

Berkeley, Sunday, August 16, 2026 1:54 am

The title is a colloquialism from Cuenca, which does not translate the same exact way.

Three ounces of wine in, after a good walk. I also agree to eat at top dog, which has an excellent high pace and straightforward vibe.

fr. S said, earlier this week, in his homily, that generosity should be not measured. It comes whole heartily. It does not expect anything back.

A Siri Lanka friend might think about the limits of generosity.

I learned a bit about Florence, Oregon, and the good shrimp there. And about Bingen, Washington. Likely, those were found by Italian and German expats respectively.

Saint Hildegard von Bingen was from the same name town next to the Rhine.

I just said this through message to a friend. I assume the similarities between or one of the name reasons of the Washington Bingen town name is the sitting next to an important river, the Columbia in the WA case.

Seriousness allows to slip in several jokes in. There are many angles to seriousness. Brokeness does not allow that. Good nights of sleep are closer to seriousness.

Yesterday, was a day of obligation, a solemnity. A very important one, with beautiful scripture as well. I missed the morning masses, which I do not know until what time in the afternoon might be 2 pm. After a certain time in the Saturday afternoon, it becomes the vigil and equivalent to the Sunday mass. Usually, and likely most of the time, it has the same readings than Sunday.

Arrived about 20 minutes late to the evening mass, on Saturday, still to the homily. I apologized to the priest. But I need to plan better the day, the day before, allowing some flexibility.

One hears several ideas.

I did waste several hours on youtube yesterday. Might be first time of a distraction of that caliber since 2023 or so. Even during the world cup, it was not that continues. It was more measurable an active. So, I need to be careful with the causations.

Adapting to the new routine, particularly transit. But particularly falling a bit behind in some reading, and leaving not enough time for the actual writing might be one of the reason. Yet, still is possible to handle with grace adverse situations and several pressure, when it comes again.

The training is on daily basis though.

There are things that fill the self. There are comments to others which always are complicated to let them out, unless that the person is present in the conversation. That actually is a very healthy thing to say things that are in favor or against directly. The second or third person talk does not give a healthy feeling, particularly on a public sphere, but everything is sort public. So respect and zeal are key components as well of life.