"Not always do we seek..."

 this old heel found at the homestead is too far gone even for cobblerG

eight days in the mesa country  revitalizes my spirits...20 degrees above "normal"

symbol on the bottom of a can...how old?...what does it mean?

Arthur S....not the pessimist he is often described as...

i will see if this blog is allowed to be posted...the close surveillance has followed me north...i think i have been banned from the dollar a pint grocery stores in yumertonville under suspicion of "reading the labels on the food"...maybe it is more than that which makes me "persona non grata"...here now so i need to adjust to this locale again...i have been watching the green clad folks who celebrate the "emerald islands" far away...i think people get too emotionally involved with their so called "identity"...i was thinking of a speech i heard recently..."i would like to thank all those who came before me..." yeah me too...like the denisovans and the neanderthals and the homo erectus and the "ghost" ancestral DNA (thanks ms Lindsay)...where does it start?...where does it end?... anyhow "be here now"...i got a new phone for $39 and got the no limit data package for $50 plus tax so i can look at youtube without being cut off...this make viewing more productive as far as informational access goes...i watched some strong stuff last week "Spiritually depraved misery inducing landscapes of north america" (18 min)@"crime pays but botany doesn't" in this critical view of current landscaping trends mr Anthony rips the landscapers a new asshole...they deserve it...i worked for three landscapers at once back in about 1973...Charbel, Walter, and Eduardo...these were good guys just getting started and i was a skinny kid trying to make enough money to get out of town...i hated laying sod but Walter used to pick up a roll and say "life is no joke! you have to make it count!"...he is an old man now and he doesn't lift the kind of weight he used to..."The woman who shook Nietzsche" is an excellent short piece about Lou Andreas Salome who lived her life independently and attracted a lot of attention from some of the most intellectually prominent men of her time...Nietzsche wanted to marry her, and she influenced S, Freud and the poet Rilke... strong stuff!..."Lets GO Geo" (Heather) has a great piece on creosote bush and "Itchy Boots" makes it to mongolia with a bad shock absorber and "Little Chinese Everywhere" Yan eats very well in Iraq.."All that is sacred" is a short documentary about the "HAPPENING" that was key west in the early 1970s...Lafayette, Louisiana had some of that fibe at that time....but with a cajon accent...i heard where one of the crew on "The deadliest catch" was drowned on the job...i cant get too excited about groceries that people have to risk their lives for..."Not always do we seek a solution, while of the truths we cannot do without." Lou Andreas Salome...