Hot Season

The Thai summer is here again, aka the Hot Season.  We will be sweating it out more than ever until the wet monsoon comes in late May or so.  The temps have been pushing 100*F this week, and of course the humidity is off the charts.  The only things keeping me going are iced drinks, an electric fan, and Snake Brand Prickly Heat cooling powder.  This last one I apply many times a day, especially to my back by putting it on a dry long-handled shower brush to reach between my shoulder blades.  Ahh, the cooling relief! 

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-Zenwind.

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Reading Nietzsche on My (recent) 63rd Birthday

After finishing a long reading project, I had the great pleasure of deciding on what next to read out of many choices.  I reached for The Portable Nietzsche, edited, translated and with commentary by Walter Kaufmann.  This is a classic that I first read 40 years ago, and it is still as fresh and relevant as it was when it was first published. 

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Nietzsche is ruthlessly honest, boldly curious, iconoclastic, and timelessly in tune with the human condition from ancient days straight through into our own future.  …  The man continually amazes me. 

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-Zenwind.

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