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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2015 - 06:09pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]dig the last frame in the video.
c'st moi.
with friends like I have, I cannot but win out over this crap, this fated crap, which is here to test me.
so thanks, friends, thanks a million times over every day, thanks
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2015 - 07:06am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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Originally presented on STRICTLY PERSONAL
ON TOMORROW
We’re all brothers on tomorrow
(we won’t have to talk) we won’t need to talk
We won’t need to walk on tomorrow
Rush comes the love
shapes to share shapes
Love love love on tomorrow
baby springs on yellow wings red skies showing on
Lively ivy growing on tomorrow
Wish your way around hair stringin’ to the ground
Silver streams all our dreams
cleansed free of sorrow
Love love love love love love
Lush skies above shapes to share shapes
Peace escapes to play away today tomorrow
Mothers graze on grasslands
Grazin’ woman stands on today’s shiftin sands
Grazin' woman stands and baby springs on golden wings
flies free of sorrow (flies free of sorrow)
on tomorrow
woman grazin' on grasslands…..on which it stands
We’re all brothers on tomorrow yeah we’re…
--Captain Beefheart(1968)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Capt. Beefheart/The PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER SESSIONS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gwabDTsgI
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Nov 19, 2015 - 07:59am PT
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Hey!
I recognize that top image! :)
Mouse, I am glad you are doing so very well. I thought it was always warm in Cali. You must stay warm while you are healing, and also sleep a LOT of course.
(end of mom lecture) :)
It is 31F here right now, and a whitetail doe and her two fawns are just outside the door, nibbling the sunflower seeds that the birds scatter from their feeder. They are all in foraging mode.
We have snow coming from across the Divide tonight, I hear.
And I am off to forage for coffee.
Rest. Heal. Be Well.
Happy Thanksgiving, too.
ff
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 19, 2015 - 08:05am PT
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Flame on Brother B!!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2015 - 09:53am PT
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That's exactly what I intend,
Good Reilly, my recent old friend.
Thanks for the good wishes.
And feralfae--you ought to know that picture, as you sent it in that collection of old hardcover westerns.
You know they're not worth much on the open market because of their shape, generally.
But that doesn't mean that they are worthless.
In fact, because they were given me by a friend, they are prizes and I will treat them accordingly.
Currently I am seeking another bookcase of approx. 3' X 3' to hold most of the really old books in my poor collection.
I try to buy at least one used book a month...unlike Erasmus, who went without meals, according to him, in order to buy a book. He's a radical screwball whacko and a genius type, so he can get away with that.
Gene, if you are 'doing' the Flames, I hope you are enjoying that Hervey Voge guide to the SN.
Let me say that Gene's an amazingly giving person. He will be responsible for helping serve dinners for Thanksgiving to at least three, maybe four (?) groups this year. What a commitment of time over the holidays!!
YOU ROCK, Gene!!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Nov 19, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
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Smiles.
Mouse, as much as those old books got passed around and read and re-read, sometimes traveling in a pack, I didn't think they were worth anything,except for the memories of places they have been.
I am glad you have them. I hope you get a bookcase. I have 16'x6' of book shelves, and even that is not enough, or course, but I am slowly sorting and saying goodbye to some of them.
The new Alpinist has an article on John Waterman and his solo Hunter ascent, by the way.
ff
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 19, 2015 - 02:00pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... just found this by accident... and knowing how you love historic stuff... thought i'd send it along...
lillian gish... in THE WIND...
using the concept on how the wind made many woman folk,
left alone on the prairie, would cause them to lose their
grip, mentally...
you can do more research, as you like...
was actually filmed in the mojave desert, as well...
here you go:
they call it 'art' now... and an important
part of the silent film era...
also, one announcer said it was the first time the
lion logo, was used, in the mgm...
(after the studies merged?? something like that)...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
some fun, here... from lillian gish...
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i really know nothing about her, and am going to go learn too...
here is another clip:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish
hope this keeps you busy, :)
and is fun for you, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2015 - 02:06pm PT
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Thank you, neebee, from everyone who might watch these clips! I'm looking forward to watching them after lunch and a nap.
There are several of those westerns, especially, which I want to read this winter in that collection, feralfae.
These are some of the wootin'-tootin' titles:
Boss of the Big C
Flying U Ranch
Chip of the Flying U
Lord of Lonely Valley
Powder Valley Payoff
I read one Will Henry collection of short stories, Sons of the Western Frontier, and Ferber's Great Son (really good story @ Seattle).
Cosmic, that was very kind of you to call me this morning. You're a good friend. Thanks.
I just came home from a really arduous trip on the bus to Food4Less. I find I'm getting winded after just a short walk. And I was using the walker, too. But perhaps I was in too much of a rush. I only gave myself ten minutes to get to the Transpo Center, should have taken fifteen. Now I know better. I also just missed the connecting bus to come back this way because I lingered too long in the grocery store.
So I caught the next bus, coming from the Transpo and going around the loop...not all that long, really. I'm glad I did it this way. I enjoyed sitting in the sun waiting for the bus, and by the way, I'm going to sit in the sun outdoors in the mornings when the weather's fair like it is today...just like Roofus did this morning earlier.
Anyway, on the bus, there was a delightful little girl and her mom riding with us. She was about two and her finger in her mouth and a model-esque smile made us all grin out loud. She was an absolute charmer.
This same mom performed one of those random acts of kindness. Another woman was trying to get a ride, but had only one dollar, and the driver said he couldn't let her ride--the fare is $1.50 for adults, $.75 for seniors. The mom gave her her change card worth $.50, and then I gave her my change card for $.25, so we split the act of kindness down the middle. This mom looked as if she could use every quarter she could, and I have cards that I must use up soon laying in my change bowl on the dresser. It was the least I could do for her daughter's bringing a big smile to my and others' faces.
Things don't always work out, but when they do, it's a grand feeling, even if it's only small change.
Putting this morning's adventure (it's where you find it and what you make of it) in climbing terms, I did not "crush" but I didn't have to hang and I got up the thing and back down, too, with some good companions.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 19, 2015 - 02:39pm PT
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hey there say, mouse! wow, wonderful fun adventure there... :)
happy sun, too... roofus is a good teacher, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 19, 2015 - 04:37pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
one more 'historic' stuff... here...
about a family... :)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Nov 19, 2015 - 04:55pm PT
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Just had to post this.
There is a Crazy Woman Creek in Wyoming, near the Powder River (Mouse, if you ever find it, you might enjoy the book, "Hell Among the Yearlings" which takes place along the Powder. And do you enjoy Guthrie or Doig? So glad you got out for an . . . outing. :) Sitting in the sun sounds as though it might be a perfect place to meditate.
neebs, stand by.
:)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2015 - 06:01pm PT
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Oh, Guthrie is just one of my all-time faves. I've read just about everything of his.
As for Ivan Doig, there is none better from Montana. All his books are gems. My fave of his is the one about the building of the Ft. Peck Dam on the Missouri River from 1933 to 1938. That's simply because it's easy to imagine some of the Duff family's experiences in general being something like what my grandad went through as an operating engineer on the big dam projects across the West...Trinity, Whiskeytown, Shasta, Oroville, San Luis, Boulder, etc.
As for the Three Stooges, well, I can only say, "Woot-woot-woot-woot!"
Classy fellahs, those three.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Nov 19, 2015 - 06:59pm PT
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Ah, one of Margaret Bourke-White's photos. She was an amazing person. Fascinating life, great photographer. A true adventurer. You have a nice bit of family history there. Did you ever get to go to any of the sites with him to hear about what he was doing?
Okay, you have read Guthrie and Doig, so I will see what else is in the li-berry that you might like when I get back to the sorting. I am trying to pare it down to anthro/archaeo and art, but some math books still sing to me . . . and QM. I have too much stuff. And most of it interests me. I am working toward more simplicity, though. That sounds like a contradiction: more simplicity. Where is Thoreau when I need him? Dusting rocks, indeed.
I hope you sleep well tonight and with more ease.
ff
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2015 - 05:22am PT
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Math types should pay attention.
S+ means more simplicity
S- means clutter
R' means space and ease of locating titles
R" means over-crowding on the bookshelf and possible damage to book spines
So do the math.
(S+) = R'
(S-) = R"
It doesn't get any more simple.
The same equation exists for smoking vs. non-smoking.
I had a remarkable healing experience overnight, myself. I rested comfortably and basked in an aura of light and warmth for some time. I'm not making this up, gang. I actually had a healing experience.
I had been praying for individuals among us here at the campfire as I lay reclining (I still can't seem to sleep in my bed but I have to try again tonight.), and it came over me gradually and built in intensity until my back felt OH SO MUCH LESS PAINFUL, first of all, and I COULD TAKE FULLER, DEEPER BREATHS!
Call it what you will, I awoke feeling less burdened by pain and my legs were not swollen, either. I re-heated and ate the lentils I found I could not stomach earlier, as my body was upset.
Truly, the swollen legs had me sweating it. They are a sign of Congestive Heart Failure. The Palo Alto surgeons took me off of Furosemide (Lasix), the water pill, as soon as I went into hospital there. They left it out of the meds that they prescribed on my release.
On relese from hospital, my legs were OK at first, then not OK, then OK, then NOT GOOD AT ALL, and suppurating sores erupted, leaking down the legs and caking them with dried nasty lymph. Venous Stasis is what that is called. CHF exacerbates VS, quite obviously.
I am going in to the VA Clinic today (taking a cab, a real luxury). So I knew Doc Love would be aghast. What to do, what to do? Aha! I had my Rx stash of Furosemide still in my Mickey Mouse Club dispensing lunch pail and I took one about nine o'clock last night. I watched a movie on Netflix and then got settled in the recliner and tried to sleep a bit, woke and went to the bathroom copiously, came back to bed, got up a bit later to pee just as copiously, then retired, prayed, and the light came and I fell asleep thanking the Lord for His mercy.
Things could be much worse for me, I know. I'm glad my burdens are so light. We never are given more than we can carry, according to scripture. I reached my limit, apparently. And I'm happy to testify to circumstances and give credit to the Creator/Healer/Shepherd. I mean, why hesitate, if you truly want to believe, huh?
That's how "fairy dust" works, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2015 - 06:04am PT
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