Day 4887: What is Kangieko? & Finland's Wireless Power.

"Protection": ink collage, ink sketch, digital.

                                                                       

  

Want music?

    Click: Jacob Collier, Time Alone With You.

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I found this sweet thought from a 2018 blog. And I still feel the same.

"I like this part of the new year.  A few days in when everything settles 

after the hectic holiday pace. Like a snow globe when the shaking stops." 

What is Kangieko?

The past years are my first to realize my health is finite. New revelations and limitations, are no fun. So last Sunday, January 4 was our annual Genbu-Kai Kangeiko*.*Traditional cold weather training, 5:30 AM, Huntington Beach.

I had never missed until five years ago.

So now, and since Sunday morning ... the mental dialogue goes on.      I miss it so.

At 84, an adult shouldn't pout but I do as I mope at home the day of Kangieko. The doctor advises against, WonderWoman agrees and advises to go bundled up and watch. Neither of those appeal to me. In fact it would be painful to go and watch, not because of the cold, but because I'd miss the actual training in the cold air and cold water, and of course the sand which is the coldest and like shards of glass on my old feet? And we do train in the water. 

These photos are from various years when I was still there.

So many memories, Walking in a drenched heavy canvas gi to change after is a unique experience. Often the tie on the gi pants, being wet, gets stuck and hard to untie when you're shivering. I brought a big trash bag for all the wet clothes and dried off as much wet sand as I could.

Sweats, and I still have the heavy, hooded green coat (that I bought at a thrift store for $5) just perfect to be worn once a year at Kangeiko, and Uggs were my salvation. We would go for breakfast and compare notes. By 8:30 I was driving home, ready to launder all the wet clothes, towels etc. Then a hot shower where I would lose the rest of the wet sand. And, usually a nap, since at 9 am I had the whole day ahead. So, can't you see why I miss it and wish I could still go?

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Finland is taking a major step toward a future without plugs or cables by developing a wireless power system that can transmit electricity through the air. What once belonged to science fiction is now entering real world testing, showing that energy may soon be delivered without physical connections at all.

For more than a century, electricity has depended on wires, grids, and metal pathways. This new Finnish approach challenges that foundation by using precisely controlled electromagnetic fields to send power safely through open space from a transmitter to a receiver. It signals a potential shift in how energy could be distributed in the future.

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Lettuce,  here

 

   

Just because ...

Siberian Bluethroat

Saturday's Smiles ... 

 

 

   Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.