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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 09:39am PT
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Last night I saw a host of angels, and they were all singing different songs:
And up above kergillions of stars, spangled all over the sky:
And they were spirals turning, turning in the deep blue night:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 09:44am PT
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And suddenly for no reason, the way that angels leave the ground, they left in a kind of vortex,
Traveling at the speed of sound:
Just as I started to leave, just as I turned to go, I saw a man who'd fallen,
He was lying on his back in the snow:
Some people walk on water, some people walk on broken glass, some just walk round and round in their dreams,
Some just keep falling down:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 09:50am PT
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So when you see a man whose broken, pick him up and carry him:
And when you see a woman whose broken, put her all into your arms:
Because we don't know where we come from, we don't know what we are:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 09:54am PT
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So when you see a man whose broken, pick him up and carry him:
And when you see a woman whose broken, put her all into your arms:
Because we don't know where we come from, we don't know what we are:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 09:58am PT
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And you? You’re no one:
And you? You're falling:
And you? You're traveling, traveling at the speed of light:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 10:08am PT
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The day the devil comes to getcha, you know him by the way he smiles:
The day the devil comes to getcha, he's got a smile like a scar:
The day the devil comes to getcha, he's a long way from home:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 10:15am PT
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And then kerjillions of stars start to shine, and icy comets go whizzing by:
And everything’s shaking with a strange delight:
And this is it: the enormous night:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 10:21am PT
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Downward through the evening twilight in the days that are forgotten:
And all along the watchtowers and under the big western sky:
We're going to hang some new stars in the heavens tonight:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 10:24am PT
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And you? You’re no one,
And you? You're falling,
And you? You're traveling, traveling at the speed of light:
Lyrics by Laurie Anderson
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 10:24am PT
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At the end of every hard-earned day, people find some reason to believe.
-Bruce Springsteen
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 11:21am PT
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...At any rate, the loop tour which I just chronicled here on The Taco started at 6am and I was back at the car by 1:30 pm that day.
I always hustle on these things, due to weather considerations and my own disposition to aerobic extension, but on this particular spring day, Lisa was counting on me getting home by 2pm so I could drive her down to Pike's Peak, so she could train on it the folowing day, so I got home quickly and off we went.
Gotta love the at-hand diverse opportunity of those Colorado Rockies!
Pikes Peak, same day, but a bit later:
And the following morning, along the road to Pike's summit:
Bigger Bagger Buttress:
Lisa running repeats on the last few miles of Pike's Peak:
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Nov 11, 2007 - 11:54am PT
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that's beautiful, Tar...thanks for sharing.
-t
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 12:07pm PT
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Have a day Bro!
See you soon, Creek side, for some squishy fishy...
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mingus
Trad climber
Grand Junction, Colorado
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Nov 11, 2007 - 12:41pm PT
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That was a superb set of photos and lyrics to stumble ascoss on a quiet Sunday morning....You took me to the best of churches......ridge running in "The Big Empty."
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Nov 11, 2007 - 12:52pm PT
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Really Nice Roy!
Loved the high adventure
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 11, 2007 - 01:08pm PT
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Thank you, brother. Beautiful, beautiful.
Soon the Laurie Anderson started resonating; from nearly two decades back I just knew.
You're making me swallow some of that Sierra chauvinism.
So is the Coast Range.
COAST RANGING
Ridge rambles
Are where you find them.
This week, for me,
The Santa Cruz Mountains.
Billowing grassy tops
The sea far below covered in fog.
Couldn't seem to find Eagle Peak.
Surprised instead by a stone bench
Memorial to Wallace Stegner.
He ambled up one side of this ridge,
Me the other. Sat to have a smoke
With the writer who inspired my
Writing about the desert,
America's Empty Quarter.
But that's a different thread.
My phone rang.
(Phone?... Rang?...)
Snapped me out of this wild.
Hustle down the twilight
Too late to scoop up my son
From the surf.
In town, instead,
Wine and laughter
Wild friendship.
DR
11.11.07
For T and T
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hashbro
Trad climber
Mental Physics........
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Nov 11, 2007 - 01:29pm PT
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Roy-Boy, you are a brave, passionate and visionary poet......
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2007 - 01:36pm PT
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Thanks Hashbrother!
(near all of those words were from Dead Can Dance & Laurie Anderson)
And Doug Robinson drops in a wonderful sketch!
It's a free for all kids, post up whatever strikes the heart.
This'll be up for a while, as I've got lots more material from another season above ground and under the sun...
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Nov 11, 2007 - 01:52pm PT
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Aahh, it is a good sunday morning when the sun shines after a cleansing rain, and there is a great trip report from Roy to enjoy!
Thanks,
Peter
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