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Monday, December 3, 2012 - San Antonio Mechanic Shop, San Antonio NM

Eared Grebe, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 30, 2012
Eared Grebe, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 30, 2012

Time for a tuneup

About the only thing I've done to this poor old Lazy Daze tuneup wise is change the spark plugs years ago. Salvador is going to change the plugs, install new plug wires, distributer cap and rotor. And change the transmission fluid, also long overdue. Things are so hard to reach on this big V8 in a van chassis this is a two day job so I get the dubious distinction of sleeping here again with my head 10 feet from busy US 380.

Nightcamp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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