Many years ago, a co-worker was discussing the merits of meditation, and stated that he felt certain that meditating twice daily made him smarter.

After hearing this, another colleague, who didn’t meditate, laughed and said he sure hoped the first guy was getting smarter, but he thought it was attributed to age.

A new study from Yale, Harvard, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that meditation increases the gray matter in brains.

The study was a small one, using participants from ordinary walks of life, meditating 40 minutes a day.

It weighed 2.6 lbs and was snapped up by someone from Hong Kong.

I am making chicken pot pie, which is labor-intensive, but the skies are what the kids and I used to call ‘Grandfather Twilight’ after reading the book.

I’ve seen small v-formations before, but nothing on this scale.

I was trying for a picture of the pink clouds when they happened by, honking.

It amounts to 180 billion over the next 15 years. Sources will include wind power, hydropower, and solar power.

They go in the spaghetti sauce.

My Romance, from When I Fall in Love.

It was meant to be quick trip, but apparently there is no such thing. I went for curtain rods, and emerged with a desk lamp (the old one made a tapping sound whenever I used the keyboard, as if it were mocking me), a couple of jade plants, some bath mats, a flowerpot, and the rods. Breakfast was in the plan, but we got there a bit late. I did get to make faces at the baby in front of us in the checkout line to keep him from crying.

If my ankle can survive this, it may be closer to those brisk walks again.