Chazd's (Charles Dowdell's) News Burps

The first signs of spring are in the air here in Duluth GA. I took this quick pic of a bird meeting on Canary lake from the deck.

Confucious impressed on us the importantance of ritual. The modern world demands our attention more and more. The external grabs of attention continue to steal our precious and very finite time. In practice, we cope with our limited attention capabilities by shorthanding, by repeating what we can do over time, hours, minutes, days and years without thought. Although the words ritual and routine are quite different. Maybe the concept is the same.