more to be here posted soon – Desert Adventure as a Slide Show
Eastern Sierra in the far distance. Back in 2007, M & I hiked all day in the scorching heat trying to reach Papoose Flat, where those little sharp peaks are in the distance (left of center). Had to turn around because the sun was beginning to set. Made it back to the car just in time before our water ran out.
It seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving & weaving away at the Fates; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
When I speak, my lips & tongue form the words that are on my mind. These ARE my thoughts, yet they are NOT my thoughts.
I’ll try to turn over a new leaf, a blank page, and start over.
In so many ways, better than a bicycle.
Piloting a paraglider around the turn of the millennium. (That’s M with outstretched arms.)
Flying machines epitomize the realization of a 3-D experience in the wind.
Now my wing is in the garage, ready for the museum. It’s still flight worthy, and it could still break my neck.
There was an indescribably hideous monster standing quietly behind him.
Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of.
“Bet you weren’t expecting to see me again,” said the monster.
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
People at the same place in different minutes. How crowded it would look if the photos captured entire days, or weeks!
Neurolinguistic Programming Tool: Picture the worst of a situation up close and all encompassing. In the distant background visualize the best possibility and make it grow in size and come closer until it replaces the worst image.
