Curiosity

Two ferries, ten hours, fifty dollars, and 100 miles is all it takes to see a friend. What a great day, drive, ride, sail, lunch and smiling granddaughter I experienced on my mini adventure. I took the Edmonds to Kingston ferry and drove down the Kitsap peninsular instead of I-5 to the West Seattle ferry, besides the last time I took that West Seattle ferry I got off on the wrong island. I made no mistakes yesterday.

I saw, read and thought about so much new stuff: I became curious about museums, parks, exits, distances, and traffic patterns.

Curiosity isn't that one of the best thing about life. I get fascinated by names, places, drives, food, people, stories, words, views, jobs, movies and other stuff. Everything from what's in that truck to where does that road go to what kind of name is Neomia. I always thought Neomia was native American due to being named after my mother's native American friend only to learn it is Greek for new moon. Who knew.

I love to type a nonsense word into Google to see what kind of "hit" I will get. The other day it was spudz: besides the rather kinky sites, I found a fabulous children's clothing site. There is a brand of clothes called Spudz and they are great. What a find. Isn't Google a curiosity?

Connor was sizing up my bookshelves the other day. I'm curious how long it will take him to attempt climbing them. He started to then backed off. I'm curious if some innate animal survival instinct said, "Not safe, not safe."

I observed Carol's granddaughter yesterday and wondered about other animal instincts us humans have as babies; grasping, lifing our head, mimicing.

I'm curious how Christian's romance is progressing. He was in Tacoma the other day.

I'm curious about the Ethiopian restaurant downtown that I haven't been able to try yet.

I'm curious how the TransLink/Sounder train connections work. Jerry and Jane want to use it and possibly Tal, Julia, Nora and Andrew so I guess I had better go test it out. I'm curious if I will actually do that.

I'm curious if Nora knows that it will be a full moon when they arrive in Seattle for their cruise. Now wouldn't that be something to sail out on the Big Ship up the coastal waters with a full moon shinning on your very first night at sea. If it is overcast and raining they can just imagine it.

I'm curious how imagination and creativity work. Now there is a subject that has been studied for a while.

I curious how scientist get so passionate about a subject that they do study it; mosses, diseases, gnats.

I'm curious where my friend Lynn has gone to.
I can't believe I got the books Alas Babylon and Earth Abides mixed up. Silly me.
I've been reading about the new films at Cannes, I should be seeing them about this time next year.


Hey Jean, I found a picture of Christian sitting in Grampa's sandpile with the yellow truck. Now that was wonderful.

Quote: Words have to find men's minds before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

Here's to a curious day, may yours have some in it.