May 07, 2008 - I'm back home in Red Rock
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Parked in the lower driveway for the summer, May 8, 2008
LD and I pass the test
LD, this old Lazy Daze RV, and I passed the test with flying colors - the test to see if my twenty year old dream of traveling full time about the country via RV has legs.
It has legs alright - strong, sturdy legs.
It's been a great trip. This old Lazy Daze has proven to be a comfortable place to live and has taken me to many new places and introduced me to some wonderful new friends this past winter that I want get to know better. I can hardly wait to get back out there again next fall to continue the adventure. Balloon Fiesta here we come!
Night camp
At home in Red Rock (near Chatham in Columbia County, New York)
That's the Point of Emotions: Survival
That's the point of emotions: survival. Normal emotions are essential to staying alive and well. ... To most people this doesn't make sense. We humans tend to think of emotions as dangerous forces that need to be strictly controlled by reason and logic. But that's not how the brain works. In the brain logic and reason are never separate from emotion. Nothing is neutral. That's what you have to remember. ... A lot of people's emotional life is unconscious a lot of the time, especially when you're calmly thinking something through. You feel like you're just using logic, but you're actually using logic guided by emotion. You just aren't aware of the emotion. ... I recommend Descartes' Error to anyone who's interested in emotions, intuition, and decision making. ... Nature seems to have tried to wire animals and people to have useful emotions, useful meaning emotions that keep us alive long enough to reproduce. Emotions keep us alive by letting us make good predictions about the future, and good predictions let us make good decisions about what comes next.