September 1, 2014
Labor Day —[US holiday]—
Ever notice that when out and about here in America’s
“quiet places”— National forest campgrounds, the National Parks/ state parks
etc.—that the object is to eat all the food, come back lighter— hopefully
“refreshed” and save the memories on camera?
Ever notice the Inuit in northern latitudes when stopping in
the quiet places— they look to set traps, fish for graylings and look for meat
to carry them through? They seem to come back heavier after the work out. They
call it ‘shopping.”
“We call going to the mall shopping.”
Question to you my friends— why are Americans so preoccupied
and stressed- out with relaxing and lightening the load?
From— CHARLES
RUSSELL:
Shortly
before his death in 1926, the great western artist, Charles Russell, was asked
to speak at a Montana Booster Club meeting. When Russell heard himself
introduced as a “pioneer," he stepped to the rostrum and addressed the
boosters...
“In
my book, a pioneer is a man who comes to a virgin country, traps off all the
fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the
grass, plows the roots up and strings ten million miles of barbed wire. A
pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. I wish to God that this
country was just like it was when I first saw it, and that none of you folks
were here at all!”
