Words, Music, & Outdoor Adventures

Love this quote from Al Franken’s facebook page - About Me Section

I have been married to my wife, Franni, for 31 years–many of them happy. We are the proud parents of two wonderful children–and my Facebook “friends”–Thomasin and Joe.

On top of SolVista looking east to the Indian Peaks and the Continental Divide

June 21, 2009

“Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

I just got this month’s Poets & Writers magazine. The Editor’s Note really strikes me, page 6. Mary Gannon writes:

It’s through reading that we engage with the larger truths of being human. In books, we experience our private struggles as universal and come to realize the value of compassion, which is the first step toward creating a more civil and culturally rich society.

http://www.grandcountylivingmag.com/features08_Art_Artists.html

This is a link to my new favorite song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6Wv1wEDw0

Shout out to Bold for introducing me to this song. It will forever make me think of you and everything you’ve done. You Rock, in more ways than one.

I haven’t read Ulysses, but I think I might go to the library today and get a copy and start reading. On  June 16, 1904, at 8 a.m., “stately, plump Buck Mulligan” greeted the morning just as Mr. Leopold Bloom, of 7 Eccles Street, was beginning to prepare breakfast for his wife, Molly. During the next 18 hours or so these people — and hundreds of others — will leap to life in what some literary scholars call the greatest novel in English of the 20th century. During the final 50 pages, Molly Bloom lies awake and revieals her innermost thoughts. The last words of the novel, her memory of Bloom’s marriage proposal:

” . . . and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

I love this introduction to David Sedaris By MICHIKO KAKUTANI NY Times Book Review:

As readers of his 1997 best seller ”Naked” already know, David Sedaris is part Walter Mitty, part Garry Shandling, part Andy Rooney, with a little bit of Oscar Wilde thrown in for good measure: a campy commentator on the absurdities of contemporary life, a writer whose favorite subject always remains himself.

My tree in winter, see this post.

Here is my tree in summer:

A Volunteer who let me take her picture:

Swim: I love masters swimming. I’m not good at all. I’m slow and don’t finish the drills but I love it. It pushes me to go faster.
Bike: Biking has been difficult due to the winds. I am biking to work every day in the afternoon wind. Tomorrow should be a good biking day. I just need to put in more miles each week.
Run: No problem here. I can easily go out for a 1 1/2 hour run with hills and feel great. It’s amazing, really.

Life is good. 10 more days until the Ironman Coeur d’Alene lottery. I hope I get in. Good luck to all the athletes participating this year. I’ll be watching and hoping the water warms up in the lake.

I took Daisy and Abbey for a short walk in the Fraser Experimental Forest. The logging has stopped for now and there are a lot of trees on the ground. The St. Louis Creek runs through this area and I think that is the creek the dogs are playing in.

What, yes, it’s true and here is the article about Aspen Reopening for a day of skiing.

Here is the view from my 16 mile bike ride to and from work:

“There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every inch on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of wilderness”.

- Bob Marshall

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