Old but still new

With care the old training airplane flies like new.
Keeping our body and mind fit they can last forever almost...
Lots of studies now support that physical fitness can make us sharp and agile. Fragility can be postponed.
Calm, happy and detached attitude makes an enjoyable life.

Lessons learned

A few lessons I learned after reading Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer:
"Practice makes perfect-only if it's the right kind of concentrated, self-conscious, deliberate practice";
"How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember..."
"...our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected common culture:all these essentially human acts depend on memory."

All these seem so obvious but they are not.

Smile on your face

While walking in the river walk along the Napa River in the downtown I stopped and talked to Lonnie who playing his music in the Veterans Park. He is the man tat rides a bicycle pulling a rig that contains music speakers and a laptop and plays all kinds of enjoyable music that everyone enjoys. His dog, Charlie, was resting next to him.

His last dog was stabbed to death.

Wherever he goes in the downtown he plays the music. He is not homeless. Lonnie plays the music and doesn't want money.

"I want to see the smile in your face," he told me. "I take those smiles home with me at the end of the day." The last time he was next to Ben & Jerry Ice Cream store "I met people from 15 different countries," he said.

Lonnie looks content. He is happy.

"Look me up at: man's best friend Napa and you will see the picture of me and my dog and my story". When I got home I did. I was impressed.