I’ll be hiking through Haleakala Crater tomorrow. I’m looking forward to being in that other world environment. Not so much to a couple of steep climbs on the route.
Here’s a video of a rainbow at the summit, dropping down into the Crater, in early December last year.
Sage advise in a public restroom.
A new version of iA Writer has dropped today, version 6.0, along with a new website. I have been beta testing v.6 and while there are new tools that I like and appreciate, I am generally underwhelmed by such a major upgrade. UI changes on iOS are welcome (lightening menu) content blocks feel tidier across the platforms, and there are more options for file sorting.
One major addition is wikilinks. I use these in other applications where I manage notes, but at the moment I am unsure how (if) they fit into my writing workflow. I am thinking that this is the reason behind me saying that I am ”underwhelmed” by such a major upgrade? I had hoped for inclusion of the outlining tool that is in the Windows version of iA Writer.
I had expected this to be a paid upgrade, but “no,” if you have the previous version you just go ahead and upgrade. iA’s website does hint though at some price changing policies,
We value ownership and choice. Our products are offered as standalone purchases per platform. Soon, the choice between ownership and subscription will be extended to all our products.
I still love the easy access to and working with plain text files, and for that reason iA Writer is staying in my arsenal of tools.
Just a few years after the movies release(1989!), I finally got round to watching Dead Poets Society and enjoyed it very much. What a lovely man Robin Williams was, and such a loss in his passing. 🍿
I won’t be watching the WWDC keynote. I have never watched an Apple Keynote. However, I will be keeping an eye on news sites and the Micro.blog timeline later in the day to learn what goodies Apple has in store for us - and opinions of those goodies!
Let the party begin. My grandson is having his 6th birthday party today. This water slide appeared outside this morning.
I’ve started playing around with Tot Pocket and Siri Shortcuts for getting text to different places. I don’t know if I will stick with this setup, but I realized what I have at hand and don’t use.
We watched the movie Language Lessons on HBO Max last night. Very different. Very “of the times”. Like a series of Zoom calls. Well acted, it held me. I recommend it. 🍿
May 2022 Dear Friend, Following a day of interruptions and what I might call discombobulation I wrote the following in my journal last week (and posted it to my blog), It’s been hard to find time to write today. I’m feeling it. Writing is important to me, very important. I can trace the start of my time putting pen to paper back to when I was traveling in my mid-twenties.
Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It felt to me like a contemporary presentation of Buddhist teachings on death, impermanence and letting go. I’m already trying to bring an awareness of what Burkeman talked about into my life, and will be returning to this book. 📚
Coming back from time at the beach and a swim in the ocean, taking a shower, and that taste of salt as water washes away the dried salt in your hair.
Remembering my father: sitting at home on a Sunday morning, listening to Classical music and reading (though he would probably be doing the weekly difficult crossword puzzle in the Sunday newspaper).
We watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) this evening. I knew nothing about the Tammy Faye & Jim Baker story, but thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Jessica Chastain’s performance as Tammy Faye was superb. 🍿
It’s been hard to find time to write today. I’m feeling it.
There is a wonderful description of meditation which describes the role that the mind’s innate spaciousness can play in meditation practice. I have read a couple of versions of this story, my retelling probably borrows from both. It goes something like this… Meditation is like trying to tame a wild horse. I could keep that horse in a small compound, giving it little room to move around in the hope that that will quieten it down.
Evening light as rain approaches, a rainbow framing the scene. 🌈
Reflecting at the end of another day.
I never met Corey B. Marion, the founder of The Iconfactory, but feel as though I in part knew him through the omni presence of The Iconfactory in my Apple life - Icons, Desktops, a host of apps including of course Twitterrific (which will be how I always see Twitter). Thank you and RIP Corey.
I’ve dropped the ball with Micro.blog’s current May Photoblogging Challenge, not getting past Day 1. Then when I do sit up and find a photo for one of the prompts, I am a day late!
So this one is for yesterday, Day 22 textile, from my wife’s online store for vintage textiles and ceramics, Cloth and Goods.
Not my choice of title, but the title that journalist Sarah Ruppenthal used following her interview with me four years ago. I was reminded of the article recently when an old friend got in touch having come across it online. I first met Sarah when she came to do an article about the house that my wife, Melissa, and I built here in Maui. As Melissa is an Interior Designer and had done most of the design work on the house, I stepped back a lot for that interview.