Today I am trying to practice mindfulness. It’s hard, when I am not able to keep October’s cucumber (or equivalent) in mind. Today’s mindfulness is from Philo of Alexandria – interesting dude, dead these two millennia. “Be kind,” he said. “Everyone you see is fighting a great battle.” I had cause to be mindful about that yesterday when a guy in a pickup pulled up alongside and started shouting obscenities at Loki. Loki returned in kind and I told the guy he was beautiful but needed dental work. I think he was too apoplectic to take in either but the body language probably gave our thoughts away.