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15-JUL

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Tombstone

The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.

Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.

Entering, I found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors’ wives and widows.

A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.

Chapter 3 – The Chapel, Moby Dick by Herman Melville

12-JUL

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Fort Myers

Caloosahatchian Yearbook 1936 – Bud Baker

Forward – If, in this annual, the staff of ’36 can help to cast a backward glance over many pleasant, carefree hours spent in M.H.S. and cause us to live again those happy days of youth, we have reached our goal.

Fort Myers High School

16-JUN

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Going

As the bird flies a Great Circle

Non-stop flight from London to San Francisco shows up as a curve on a Mercator Projection map of the Northern Hemisphere. The trip takes 11 hours at 36,000 feet altitude in the cramped fuselage of the Boing 777 jet airliner traveling up to 590 mph.

Nowhere to Land

Return flight over Greenland across Hudson Bay into Manitoba, exposed scenes of boundless, deathly, frozen landscape.

04-JUN

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Anemometer

Airport in the Woods

Tells a lot about wind direction.

per·am·bu·late (verb)

  1. formal • humorous – travel through or around a place in a leisurely way. “With great pleasure she perambulated the square.”
  2. historical • British – walk around (a parish, forest, etc) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.

11-MAY

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Inner Coast Range

Sunol Regional Wilderness

Flag Hill at Sunol Wilderness is a slab of ancient sea floor which, in response to pressure from below, was tilted up more on one side than the other, revealing a cross-section of its sedimentary layers.

The hill shows a vegetation pattern typical of the inner coast ranges. During summer, the hot sun dries the south-facing slope. Only grassland and soft chaparral can survive under these conditions. On the north-facing slope where moisture lasts longer, trees thrive.

Sunol is one of the most beautiful parks in the Bay Area.

07-MAY

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Far Future

Doomed to do it again & again, no choice but to play a Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall.

Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome: ground to dust; plowed with salt.

Spain, France, Britain, America – burned into the oblivion of centuries.

–A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)