Our Paths in the Valley

Summer Work Projects

We both work part-time for school districts in Tehama County.  Now that schools are closed for the summer, both Karen and I are unemployed. 

We started a number of summer work projects in our house and gardens this past week.  We worked outdoors for over 8 hours each day of various projects. 

Karen updated our webpage on Work

Tarot Research and Studies

I continue to study the Tarot each day for one hour. 

This past week, I created the first draft of webpages on two of the Minor Arcana suits:  Pentacles/Disks/Worlds/Diamond Tarot Suit and the Swords/Spades/Crystals Suit. 

I choose one card for meditation each day. 

Ace of Disks by Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, the Thoth Tarot, 1940. 

 

The Labor Passes, The Good Remains

"If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains."
- Cicero


"To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life."
- Sir William Osler


"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
- Simone Weil

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi   

 

Work, Labor, Effort - Quotes, Poems, Sayings

 

Mike Garofalo - Part-Time Work Needed

I retired in 1998 as a Library Administrator for the County of Los Angeles Public Library.

However, I have been "semi-retired" since 1999, and continue to work part-time in a number of ways that might be useful to your organization.

I you are interested in having me work for you, lets talk: 530-200-3546.

Grant Writing and Grant Management

Educational Technology 

Advertising on my Popular Websites and Webpages  (I am not doing web publishing just for the money; however, some income is always appreciated to cover web publishing expenses.) 

Website Development and Blogging

Substitute Teacher

Yoga Teacher

Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong Teacher

String Figures Performer and Teacher


Experience and Qualifications

Michael P. Garofalo, M.S., Red Bluff, California

Resume

Technology and Media Services Supervisor and Grant Writer for the Corning Union Elementary School District

Short Biography


I work in the following geographical areas:

Red Bluff, Tehama County, North Sacramento Valley, Northern California, U.S.A., Cities and small towns in the area: Oroville, Paradise, Durham, Chico, Hamilton City, Corning, Rancho Tehama, Los Molinos, Tehama, Proberta, Gerber, Manton, Cottonwood, Anderson, Shasta Lake, Palo Cedro, Igo, Ono, Redding, Shasta, Colusa, Willows, Williams, Chester, Orland, Susanville, Weed, Gridley, Marysville, Yuba City, CA, California.

Will Power

"A callused palm and dirty fingernails precede a Green Thumb"
- Michael Garofalo

No one is wise by birth. Wisdom results from one's own efforts."
- Krishnamacharya

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."
- Frank A. Clark

"There is not great talent without great will power."
- Honore de Balzac

"Excellence is not an act, it is a habit."
- Aristotle

Green Way Wisdom - Will Power

Blur the Line

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
- Arnold Toynbee

“In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.”
- Alan Watts, Work as Play

“We may play with and pass on a garden, possessing one is an illusion.
Gardeners must dance with feedback, play with results, turn as they learn.
Some gardeners don’t grow old and stop playing; they stop playing and grow old.
Nature’s playfulness is a gardener’s delight.
A garden is a sporting field, an area for play.”
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions: The Maxims of Gardening