http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/634414I have gotten so many comments of great support to the previous post, and congratulations for the grand thing of saving a life. Now I am understanding why people who perform CPR or happen by a situation in which they end up saving a life in peril--especially at little risk to themselves--tend to be very modest about it. When it is your job, your training, or simply your nature to act in such circmstances, then the real challenge would be to walk away without acting. I suspect most of us who...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/634199It started Friday afternoon with an email from someone who was a friend at one time, so I considered her--a strong personality, which I appreciate, but with, as it turned out rather too much in the way of controller personality, too. On an occasion when I declined to be controlled, she became decidedly unpleasant about it, and I decided I didn't need any of that. So I pretty much let it go. She moved to Hawaii, and our paths did not cross. Friday's email was an apology that she could not pay...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/633455for my friend who has decided music is better than booze.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/633280As I said before, the whales never came in close to our cove during the day. We watched them far out in the waters of the Johnstone Straits, usually traveling along, occasionally feeding. They rarely did anything more dramatic than that, though one day when there was thick fog, we could hear them having a grand party with much breeching going on, water-slapping, and oh such shenanigans that would have been a complete delight to actually see! However, at night when we were at our quietest and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/633057One of the great frustrations of our 5 weeks on the island was that the orcas never came in close to us when we could see them well. It has been observed in other times and places not distant from our island--therefore involving the same whales, same pods of whales--that the orcas do not tend to come close when people are agitated, upset, emotionally out-of-true; they come close when observers are calm and centered, in quiet emotional trim. Interesting, though circumstantial rather than...