Ed Medley

Lost in Migration/Translation

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Ed Medley

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague in Iran suggested gently that my bimrocks.com site needed some overhaul. He had found it useful when starting his research a few years ago but now thinks it should be improved. He is right, I realized abashedly. After far too many years of sloth, it is time to update all three of my sites. Update? More like give the sites a thorough cleaning, retrofit, remodel…

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lights

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Ed Medley

sitting amidst crowds

I look up at lights solitary

stars accompanied

It has been 4 years since I wrote anything on the website

here be a haiku written in 2014 and retrieved 6 years later

still not too-decayed.

Mayhap I am decaying…

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Festive Friday! (Creative Altruism)

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Ed Medley

I am taking a 6-week online course: “A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment“. It is actually a happy and fulfilling course. Lots of fun. The third week Assignment is “Creative Altruism” – an exercise in which I (and tens of thousands of other students around the world) do something cost-effective that adds some joy and excitement into the lives of three strangers. I chose to hand make three greeting cards by pasting a snapshot into each card and composing/writing a haiku inspired by each image. Continue reading →

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seals (while sculling)

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Ed Medley

slack drift with the tide
peekaboo seal pups tease me,
silent – but for sploshes

(Corkscrew Slough, Bair Island, Redwood City near low tide, April 29 2014)

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BART morning haiku (lady 2)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ed Medley

corn silk tucked behind
a peeking, gem-studded ear
– my day starts lovely

(April 28 2014, on BART – San Francisco Bay Are Rapid Transit – to Oakland)

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BART morning haikus (lady 1)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ed Medley

rumble whine and screech
my train clatters to Oakland
lulling me to sleep

une jeune fille skips on
gamine, pert – my eyes gambol
and I stay awake

(April 18 2014. BART is the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit light rail system.)

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N07h1ng 15 51mpl3

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Ed Medley

I just learned yet again: Nothing is Simple. Or in leetspeak: N07h1ng 15 51mpl3. (Leetspeak is short for “elite speak”: communication where a letters replace numbers or other characters. e.g.: “leet” in leetspeak is 1337).

But “N07h1ng 15 51mpl3” is perhaps more positive than Nothing is Simple backwards: Simple is Nothing.

OK: time to go back to work.

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+1

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Ed Medley

A positive (+) look on life this morning:

+1 = 1 year since my last post (50/20) which celebrated two important events – the most important being my 20th wedding anniversary. Continue reading →

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50/20

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Ed Medley

50 years ago today John F. Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon within a decade. (Yes, I know: a man). And in 1969 it came to be, with a Giant Step for Mankind (Yes, I know. Man again). And the world view was forever changed. 20 years ago today, Julie married me. That was a Giant Step for Womankind; my world changed forever. 20 years later I am still over the Moon with happiness…