After I looked up acrophobia, I still don’t see a big difference between the two photos. Your climate change references are so funny. I hope there is one of my 5th grade students somewhere reading your writing and remembering all the Greek mythology I taught for years. I hadn’t thought of Gaia in a while!
G’day Judy! So good to hear from you. The photos were taken half way through a bus ride to the north of the island last week. We met up with some of dear wifey’s readers who were on tour “in search of Homer.” The photos I didn’t share were of me looking out the window with the fear of Zeus in my eyes… and afterward at the bar, recovering with an ouzo in hand. Best to you and yours!
Not only will the government do it worse than the private sector, it will create a monopoly on that activity, and assign itself the title of monopolist. And the victims have no other solution to the impending disaster.
Ah Iceland. I too have a hankering to go to Reykjavík & to Nuuk, Iceland - no Mr. Trump, you can’t have it! Being a person of winter, I’ve been searching BnB’s to escape the VA heat. Our own wife is none too pleased, especially if I venture abroad without her. So far discretion rules. Thank you sir for sharing your travels & your thoughts.
Never have I been discontented with winter. While I’ve enjoyed the varied beauty of our planet, from its parched deserts to steaming rainforests and its icy regions, I prefer being reasonably cold to unreasonably hot. Still, one adapts as one must. Thank you, I shall place your book suggestion on my list; I like solace too.
I live in the Sonoran Desert about 45 minutes east of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, my outdoor thermometer hit nearly 119F. By any standard, it was HOT. Yet, life went on as usual. The freeways were jammed as usual. Everyone went to their jobs (no business shut its doors due to extreme heat), Costco was packed, family and friends visited one another, hospitals treated patients, golfers golfed, and roofers roofed. Vast new developments of single family homes and large apartment complexes are springing up everywhere, as are gargantuan warehouses and new businesses. Last summer we experienced a record 57 days with high daytime temps reaching 110F or above - beating the old record by a hefty 21 days. More than several million people reside in the Phoenix Valley, with more people moving in daily. The only people dying are idiots who go hiking in the middle of the day with only an 8 ounce bottle of water. For the rest of us, life goes on.
After I looked up acrophobia, I still don’t see a big difference between the two photos. Your climate change references are so funny. I hope there is one of my 5th grade students somewhere reading your writing and remembering all the Greek mythology I taught for years. I hadn’t thought of Gaia in a while!
G’day Judy! So good to hear from you. The photos were taken half way through a bus ride to the north of the island last week. We met up with some of dear wifey’s readers who were on tour “in search of Homer.” The photos I didn’t share were of me looking out the window with the fear of Zeus in my eyes… and afterward at the bar, recovering with an ouzo in hand. Best to you and yours!
Not only will the government do it worse than the private sector, it will create a monopoly on that activity, and assign itself the title of monopolist. And the victims have no other solution to the impending disaster.
Remember, the first hundred years are the worst.
Ah Iceland. I too have a hankering to go to Reykjavík & to Nuuk, Iceland - no Mr. Trump, you can’t have it! Being a person of winter, I’ve been searching BnB’s to escape the VA heat. Our own wife is none too pleased, especially if I venture abroad without her. So far discretion rules. Thank you sir for sharing your travels & your thoughts.
Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland.
The Winter of our Discontent was not GE’s described experience, x (multiplied) 7. But & yet & still the cooking odor of it wafts from her page:
https://www.gretelehrlich.com/
Never have I been discontented with winter. While I’ve enjoyed the varied beauty of our planet, from its parched deserts to steaming rainforests and its icy regions, I prefer being reasonably cold to unreasonably hot. Still, one adapts as one must. Thank you, I shall place your book suggestion on my list; I like solace too.
I live in the Sonoran Desert about 45 minutes east of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, my outdoor thermometer hit nearly 119F. By any standard, it was HOT. Yet, life went on as usual. The freeways were jammed as usual. Everyone went to their jobs (no business shut its doors due to extreme heat), Costco was packed, family and friends visited one another, hospitals treated patients, golfers golfed, and roofers roofed. Vast new developments of single family homes and large apartment complexes are springing up everywhere, as are gargantuan warehouses and new businesses. Last summer we experienced a record 57 days with high daytime temps reaching 110F or above - beating the old record by a hefty 21 days. More than several million people reside in the Phoenix Valley, with more people moving in daily. The only people dying are idiots who go hiking in the middle of the day with only an 8 ounce bottle of water. For the rest of us, life goes on.
Joel, It is an enjoyable and peacefull video to watch . Thanks for this, and safe travels.
The CNS wiring-coursing generates fields, including of Dreams, that are hook-&-loop. And the static cling! Mein gott, the static cling!
Even The newly Plagueless & Warless life of JJ was re-subverted & re-sabotaged by the static cling.
He’d been to a town. He’d there worn & observed the ceaseless rhyming frown.
So he left. The Solace of Open Spaces beckoned & balmed.
But wherever Velcro Magnon Man goes, there he is. Cue, one possibility, Heart Shaped World, Chris Isaak, Wicked Game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZQdYvVXaug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqaRPOEuFjQ
“Skin that, Pilgrim, & I’ll get you another!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMQnDrBp60
Great note as ever and from one of our favouritist places!