A relativistic perspective

One of the interesting things about current events at gulker.com, is how a relatively overwhelming life event distorts one’s perspectives. It’s sort of like Einstein’s relativistic events close to the event horizon of a singularity. Little things can take on enormous, distorted importance, while big issues are dismissed as a nit. For example, a small […]

A 6:30 AM walk with Kate

As Cassie and I made our 2 mile loop this morning, we fortuitously came upon our dawn community friend Kate, the plucky Brit. Bundled up against this morning’s sub-40F chill, and sporting one of her trademark chapeaux, Kate was kind enough to join me on the mile or so outbound leg of our circuit, which […]

Only 2 seizures today

Fingers crossed, but I can’t tell you how encouraging this news is. And we only had 5 yesterday. That’s down from a peak of 24 seizures a day 3 weeks ago…

The sun also rises

It was one of those mornings where the clear Eastern sky showed little color as the sun rose. The Western sky, however, had a rose hue, as seen here behind a couple of deciduous oaks - not Coast Live Oaks as I earlier thought, which are evergreen.
Cassie and I are in our third day […]

Noise, good and bad

The dawn sky was very pretty this morning as I made my way around the Stanford corral. I bumped into good dawn community friend Judy, who was kind enough to halt her jog and walk with me for a quarter mile or so. Judy is a lawyer and very organized: I don’t usually think of […]

A shining path

As I made my way home from the Stock Farm stop on the Marguerite Shuttle’s B Line, I arrived at this very nicely lit scene. Minutes earlier, a small squall had raced through, bringing swirling winds, a noticeable drop in temperature and a light dusting of rain.
It reminded me of hiking trips in Yosemite […]

The angels of UCSF radiation therapy

Chris, Lisa and Angela (L to R - Debbie was camera shy) are the radiation therapists and nurses who run one of UCSF’s two Siemens Mevatron linear accelerators (the one that’s set up mainly for brain tumors). I think of them as the angels of the radiation oncology lab, a place where I’m spending a […]

Back on the trail

I rose at 6:00 AM this morning for the first time since surgery, with Linda who has maintained the dawn patrol that has been a cornerstone of our 25 years together. We walk together the quarter mile or so to Sand Hill Road, then, at the bridge over San Francisquito Creek, we part ways, Linda […]

Ora et Labora

Those words, ‘work and pray’ were the motto of Taunton school, wher I spent the 1969-70 school year. They speak to the 2 essays I’ve been trying to write for weeks now, one about work, the other about faith. It seems like everytime I’m ready to begin, there’s a new development: the NY Times Science […]

Good night again

For the first time, a seizure actually woke me, at midnight, followed by one at 12:30. Both were a bit less mild than had been the case all day. After that, I slept until almost 8:00 (thanks, dear)… I can get used to this 8 hours without a seizure routine…

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