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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Dec 26, 2006 - 11:06am PT
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Damn, Leb, I leave for a few days and when I return there is no hit that you have gone climbing as yet. Are you listening?
SHift from ideas to action. TIe in. Get going.
JL
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2006 - 11:24am PT
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Lois
if you want to understand something about climbing, then in your case you need to go climbing, and for one reason: you stated that "you" have no interest or desire to go climbing. Going against our passive "spectator" sides, to which we are identified as "us," as who we are, involves moving outside our comfort zone into places "we" have ruled out of bounds.
The thing is you have an IDEA about all of this and so far have taken the matter up in terms of ideas. A shift out of the merely mental would cause another shift that would address the inflexibility of your mental fixation NOT to do anything diferently and to follow the path that your mind has already decided for you. I'm only asking you to step one half of a foot off that path--and you can scramble back to it in a flash, in mere minutes after roping up. You will not die. Stretch yourself in some way that your mind refuses to do and you do yourself a great favor. In many spiritual disciplines the student must everyday do something he does not want to do. It's essential. It's rut busting and drags us out of smugly accepting that we can direct our own unfolding.
Seems like wise talk to me anyway
Peace
Karl
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Dec 26, 2006 - 11:32am PT
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Jeez. When John Long tells you to go climbing you just go climbing ;-)
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Wild Bill
climber
Ca
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Dec 26, 2006 - 12:19pm PT
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LEB, I think Largo is serious....better get a move on before the whip comes down
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Wild Bill
climber
Ca
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Dec 27, 2006 - 12:21am PT
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I'll try to lighten things up a bit. But seriously, LEB, we ALL started out as climbers (and artists, carpenters, etc) until it was beaten out of us. So I highly recommend bouldering for you - you don't need any specialized equipment, although you might have to get rid of those "Jersey Girl" fingernails!
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Dec 27, 2006 - 04:18pm PT
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Don't ever share that story on the internet LEB.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2007 - 06:41pm PT
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Bump for Lois
not to break the continuity of this thread but I was actually wondering about your garden and this seemed like the best place to ask.
What did you plant this year? How did you decide? On looks? On what you could eat? On what grows well? How did it work out? Did any varmits try to eat your stuff? Did ya want to kill em? or how did you chase em off?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Peace
Karl
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Wild Bill
climber
Ca
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Karl unearths a gem. Largo even tried to reason with LEB! Classic. I am totally in favor of a 'LEB thread' where everyone posts in strange roundabout ways.
But whatever would we talk about? Oh yeah - anything but climbing!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2007 - 08:13pm PT
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Cool. I hear bunnies are good eatin'
I can't grow much but native stuff here in Yosemite cause I'm lazy and my place gets little sun.
Peaches yum! I love smoothies with peaches, bannanas and Yogurt.
That's gotta be tons of work. How do you do the farm, work, husband, and Supertopo to boot? Hope you build in some chill time for sanity
peace
karl
Edit: Lynch team? For you! Perish the thought. I'm sure if we were to toss you into a pond to see if you were a witch, that you'd sink and prove your innocence and no lynching would be required!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2007 - 01:36am PT
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Lois, I remember those times when you used to complain that people's posts were too long and you didn't have time to read long posts....
and recently some folks have said your posts were long.
So I thought you'd be interested in this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6269204.stm
"....The common notion that women are the more talkative sex has been dispelled by scientists in the US.
Researchers who bugged 400 students to log their chats found little difference in word count between the sexes.
The University of Arizona study, in Science, conflicts with previous US research suggesting women talk almost three times as much as men.
Whether someone was an introvert or an extrovert was more important, said relationship experts.
In the study, women spoke a daily average of 16,215 words during their waking hours, and men 15,669 words....."
One sidebar had this quote
"The problem is not how much people talk or don't talk, the problem is how well people listen
Paula Hall"
FWIW
Karl
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