Beach Oysters Test Pack

What a great weekend. Take my little neice on an overnite RV trip to olema ranch inn. Met friends there and we had a fire and made somemores and headed out for heart’s desire beach the next day (my fav place). The weather was beautiful and then we packed up and had some oysters at Johnson’s and the kids learned how oysters were made. and slurped a few themselves. (I don’t think I will be buying anymore oysters from Johnson’s after reading the Sierra Club article about them and their unsafe practices around oyster farming and the environment.)
Well, we have said all of our good-byes and the movers are coming tomorrow morning. We will stay at a holiday inn for a few days to wrap up some things. A major setback was this morning. I went to take my driving test with my hand controls and the instructor would not let me take the driving test because we did not have a license plate on the front of the car which is now a CA law. UGH! We waited in line and paid the $$ -got the plates- waited in line- and then pleaded with the safety office to issue me a new exam date right away. So- sometime this week I will be taking the test. Meanwhile-pack, pack, pack.
As you know I take notes weird bumper stickers. Here is a new one I saw recently:
“I love my country…… but I really think we should start seeing other people.”
Here’s a little something to chew on ( I can’t help it, I am a big H.H. fan!) :
Generally, the experiences that you normally regard as pleasurable and
happy, such as having the physical comfort of good facilities and so
forth, if they are examined at a deeper level, will be revealed to be
changeable and therefore in the nature of suffering. They provide you with
temporary satisfaction; because of that temporary satisfaction you
regard them as experiences of happiness. But if you keep on pursuing them,
they will again lead to the experience of suffering. Most of these
pleasurable experiences are not really happiness in the true sense of the
word, but only appear as pleasure and happiness in comparison to the
obvious sufferings that you have.
–from “Path to Bliss: A Practical Guide to Stages of Meditation” by
H.H. the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, translated by Geshe Thubten Jinpa,
edited by Christine Cox, published by Snow Lion Publications