In Winnipeg

 My son Tony & I are in Winnipeg.

My wife is in Vancouver.

We’ll all be together after midnight.

Coming into Winnipeg, we drove along Roblyn Boulevard. The Assiniboine was high but not that high.

Sunday 5:03 AM

Later this morning, we drive to Winnipeg.

My wife’s flight is in the air.

Monday 9:23 PM

It is comfortable outside.  Smooch the cat is lying down outside, very calm and content.

I hope I don’t forget to let her back in.

Meanwhile I read this:

The emperor’s bedding in the imperial bedchamber is placed with the pillow facing east. Sleeping with the head in this direction generally confers dynamic yang energy, which is why Confucius also slept thus. Mansions built in the shinden style often have the bed facing south.

Retired Emperor Shirakawa slept with head to the north. However, the north should be avoided as inauspicious. Someone also pointed out that the great shrine of Ise lies to the south, and surely it is wrong for His Majesty to lie with feet pointing towards this sacred shrine. When worshipping the distant Ise Shrine, however, the emperor faces not due south but south-east.

AKIC blogger's pillow is on the north side of the bed.  AKIC faces south when he sleeps.  What direction should AKIC be facing?  Not eastwards towards Mordor.  Maybe westwards towards the new republic.

AKIC's wife Jenny is currently on her way to the Shanghai Pudong Airport.

Monday 6:43 PM

 

It is hot in Brandon.

How hot?

Today, I talked to Spain. Heck, even some pretty Senioritas.  Earlier, I talked to Wuxi.

I then drove to the valley to see the Assiniboine River.  Boy! She’s high! I tell ya!  But the 18th street road and the Correll Centre are not impacted thanks to the dyke that was built blocking the Grand Valley Road 

And speaking of Senioritas, my wife’s plane will land tomorrow midnight at the Winnipeg Airport.  Tony & I will drive to Winnipeg tomorrow morning.

Monday 5:15 AM

 Up and at ‘em!

I got a six AM IELTS class to teach!

Sunday 7:30 PM

 The triangular shadow is the roof of my Mom’s house.

Be firm. Be virile  Be a man. And then… be a saint.

The monk Zehō is among the finest scholars in the Pure Land sect, yet he doesn’t parade his learning; he lives in calm seclusion, chanting the nenbutsu day in day out. An exemplary existence.

If nothing will be gained by changing something, it is better not to do so.

—Quien no vuelva la espalda al mundo actual se deshonra.

—Whoever does not turn his back on the contemporary world dishonors himself.

Erickson: Leda Lake

Lots of Dragon Flies there were.

 The video:

The temperature:

Thankfully, I was inside with A/C and didn’t have to deal with it.

Driving the #10 North to Erickson

 

Assiniboine River

 I took the video as I was driving to Erickson.  The water level was very noticeably high.

Sunday 9:00 AM Mass

 Father John presiding.