April 28, 2013

The house finches have built a nest in the roll-up sun screen. Now— we await the eggs!

April 25, 2013

 

Current Reading list:

• The Eskimo and the Oil Man : The battle at the top of the world for America's future / Bob Reiss
• Soul of Nowhere : Traversing grace in a rugged land / Craig Childs

The lilac buds are ready to burst on some bushes— on others the killer temps have browned out the leaves already blooming…

The house finches are building a nest in the roll up sun screen outside and are filling the air w/ their ‘songs’… seems like a few pairs are nearby…

Carl Jung once said, people can get dirty from too much civilization. Even when we don’t want to be… 

Jung added, however, that whenever we touch nature we get clean.

April 17, 2013

Well, the warm-up on the Front Range has begun in earnest. The house finch pair apparently was going about putting together a nest on in the pull down sun-shade last week, BUT had other thoughts I think. Although some twigs are still up there on the roll-up, they must’ve smelled my hand on the twigs.

It is again snowing/ unsettled out there second day in a row. Reminds me about early -springtime conditions and waking up in the tent over on the shoulder of the Abajos one springtime past. The night had been relatively warm as it has been here. The snow load on the external frame tent was a little much and a couple of times I had to push up from the inside to relieve the pressure on the fiber- glass poles.

Upon awakening, and after the ritual pot of cowboy coffee made— I walked up the forest service roadway [in the heavy snow falling] to a point where the only soundings were of the snow flakes [ big and heavy] falling on the windbreaker I was wearing. I took refuge under a spruce tree and took some images of that morning and noted to self that there was a lack of birds and animals in the vicinity of where I was at.

Today’s snow falling reminds me about this and the above meditation.

Be well my friends—

      

Drama doesn’t just walk into your life out of nowhere; you either create it, invite it,

or associate with people that bring it.

February 5, 2013

There is something about arriving in a less congested place on the planet that after the necessary days of time… so- to- speak— one ARRIVES.

Arrives in the very moment that the instilled culture— the dominant modern society— has fought hard to distract us from. This arrival is the arrival to our intuitive senses.

One can not capture this sense of things and hold onto the sense of feeling one with the natural order of things when consistently distracted by the trappings of the affluent amenities American culture.

— Photosynthesis has begun here at this latitude— while out walking, one notices the new green shoots of grasses. They are now about ¾ of and inch in spots.  The pungent odor of the skunk is in the air! Some song birds are back and the intensity of the sun is felt.

This morning there were the lenticular clouds off to the west!

Sarah Wheeler has it coined— see below.

Thanks,

me

January 18, 2013

Some things like Rabbi Twerski has said …are okay.

He mentioned in a drug/ alcohol Tx tape that his idea—> the object is to be relatively happy although discontent… is not that difficult to practice. It remains to the practitioner of Hatha Yoga and the thru- hiker to BREATHE and become okay with the out and the in breath… to notice the varying emotional/ intellectual and physical states… to notice the benefits of this noticing. The dominant modern culture does nothing to foster this—> going INSIDE state. This said I do need a trip onto the Colorado Plateau.

Bo Lozoff www.humankindness.org — is quoted as—>

"

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all 

the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:

Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant 

lifestyle is not."

This reference point is where I tried to make a point in 

my soliloquy above. I can elaborate some in hopes of 

becoming clearer to your way of thinking…ok?

The modern- dominant lifestyle of many affluent white 

people is so much about promoting some ware [or some 

 object marketeered to them] or some enticement to 

separate them from their dollars. True? 

The US dollars are illusionary in the respect that they 

are merely transactional devices in place because we can 

not farm our way out of this dominant society. 

I like camping more than shopping at Macy*s WAL*MART and Soopers— even many times better than being seen downing the four dollar coffee at Starbuckeroos! Some of the dominant modern culture behave as though they NEED to be SEEN swallowing the Culture’s pricey non- alcoholic libation.

The clear- eyed distinguish the folly in this subscription for happiness.

Rabbi Twerski has it pointed in the clear- eyed direction… about being relatively happy although discontent…

Your thoughts?   

Thanks,

me

December 31, 2012

Please see link attached. Humankindness Foundation

This man and his wife made delivery of services to the BOP possible and by extension to the rest of the supervised populations in the US.

 http://www.humankindness.org/index.html

http://www.bop.gov/

thanks,

me