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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Two nights in a row I started to get a little sleep and then
woke up with a whole lot of stuff in my brain
Clio, Euterpe, and the other muses demand sacrifices for their favors, Pat. Look at what happened to Van Gogh . . .
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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rats!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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It's Sept 3 in Japan. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAT ! The check is in the mail.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I hope that someone will give Pat the names of those who have helped. Many may not care that their support be public, but would want Pat to know, and the setup for donating wasn't clear whether that would happen.
Bump.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Mighty, I had just told Roger I want to personally thank any and all who have helped. So you were reading my mind.
Jan, great to hear from you. I appreciate you. I have been thinking a lot
about you lately, wondering if you thought I was a lost cause and
that I should "get my act together" or something. I wish I could.
I hope I do. I have faith I will come through these trials
without having to cut off both ears.... Let's believe, I guess.
I found an old photo of you and me with Dean Juhan. I am about to
lead the first pitch of T2, and you and Dean sit there shoulder to
shoulder in the bushes, ready to belay... I think it must have been
taken around 1963 or so. It's so small I doubt I could get much of
a scan from it.... Are you going to stay in Japan?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Pat-
No doubt you are a lost cause in any conventional sense and you do need to get your act together as best one can under the circumstances, but please don't cut your ears off!
Personally I'm still trying to figure out what to do when I grow up which most people I know think should coincide somehow with retiring next spring. I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of moving all my stuff, and four dogs and a cat halfway across the world to a house that I haven't bought yet. I might try to spend part of the year here and part of the year there until I get re-established in the U.S. And to add to the confusion, my mother needs to move out of her house and into assisted care about the same time.
Meanwhile Deane's career took an interesting turn. He dropped out of a Ph. D. program in English lit and got involved in body work at Esalon and has written a well known book about it.
http://www.amazon.com/Jobs-Body-A-Handbook-Bodywork/dp/1581770227
Here's an interview of him.
http://www.abundanthealth.com/DeaneJuhan/deanejuhaninterview
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Thank you so much, Jan.
I immediately tapped into the interview.
So much time has passed. It's hard to see the
old Dean in this polished, venerable gentleman,
yet now and then a laugh... and a smile, and
I see it.... Oh I have so much unhappiness
for those days, as I was such a bumbling idiot
then and did so many things wrong... even
though I have photos of all the climbs he and I
did... I was just a teen, yet I managed
to sabotage the friendship, as
I did many times through the next years, some
kind of deep self-loathing that I had to get
control of somewhere in time... wow... that
wasn't meant for here.... Oh well.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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First I've heard you had any problems with Deane. I'll bet he'd appreciate hearing from you though and being reminded of his brief rock climbing past, especially if you have a photo or two.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Ahh, yes, I was a troubled soul for a period there,
right around 1963 and '4. That was when I almost got
married to young Pat, and what a disaster that was,
and I needed attention, and I had no idea I had the
whole world in my hands and all the blessings
the gods could think to give me already.
I was really dumb at times and mixed up and said and did things
that make no sense whatsoever. Why? I have not the
slightest idea, but I was on some kind of
self-destruction course. I think maybe Royal saved
me or was it Gill, or... but Dean and I were a
fatality, not one ounce of which was his fault.
Some of my pictuers are slides which I will need to
scan. A while back I bought one of those slide scanners, but it
doesn't produce very good scans. I hope to write Dean
one day. What a genius he was/is. I really loved everything
about him.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Pat I would like to wish a very happy birthday and thank you for blazing the trail for us!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Happy Birthday, Pat! I hope this next year (and many to follow) bring you both health and happiness!
Ken
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Ahh, Donald. That was strange. I only noted that Dylan once said
Bloomfield was the best he had heard. That's a well-known quote,
and certainly Bloomfield was in good form on Highway 61 and however
else he helped Dylan and others, but in that thread
people started beating up on me, arguing the merits of their
own heroes.... I wasn't in a very good place at that moment, and
I should have simply laughed it all off. It was a case of shooting the
messenger. But yes, I would enjoy hearing anything by Mike. I have
always loved all the great musicians and guitarists. Time, or one
of the big magazines, recently did a piece on the best guitarists.
They put Jimmy Hendrix first. And Bloomfield was in there among the
greatest. But what people don't realize is how silly these
comparisons are, because each person is so different,
so very individual, and there are many great artists
who are not known and how fantastic certain classical guitarists are,
maybe Segovia, for example. There are people with technical proficiency
far beyond all the rock and blues guitarists. But then maybe they
couldn't play rock and blues so well? Or maybe they could, if
they had the desire. Each is his own gift, as I say. That is my
philosophy, to honor each person for his or her own unique talents.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Well said, Pat.
;>)
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Paying it forward. Pat has only ever had kind words for both Jack and I over the years. Sending lots of love and healing vibes, Pat!!! :-)abrazos,
Pam
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Thank you so much John and Pam and everyone.
Pat
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Beet
Big Wall climber
bonn, Germany
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Sahib, what will you do with 5,000?
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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I don't know yet what the fundraiser brought, if it even
remotely approaches that amount...
I have not been able to work much this last year and more.
You can imagine the challenges such a situation creates...
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