"... And I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."
J. Kerouac "The Dharma Bums"

Stoke 3

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-- Robert A. Heinlen

...

"'cuz you got your purse and I got my hat and we might never make it back..."

Stoke 2

"Now I dream of the soft touch of women, the songs of birds, the smell
of soil crumbling between my fingers, and the brilliant green of plants
that I diligently nurture. I am looking for land to buy, and I will
sow it with deer and wild pigs and birds and cottonwoods and sycamores
and build a pond and the ducks will come and fish will rise in the early
evening light and take the insects into their jaws. There will be paths
through this forest and you and I will lose ourselves in the soft curves
and folds of the ground. We will come to the waters edge and lie on the
grass and there will be a small, unobtrusive sign that says --
THIS IS THE REAL WORLD, MUCHACHOS, AND WE ARE ALL IN IT. -- B.Traven"


Charles Browden
Blood Orchid

Stoke 1

Everyday above ground is a gift

Breaking Free

"Once you put the plow in the land you can't lose sight of what you are doing..."

http://matadornetwork.com/breaking-free/

...

"cause the lesson that surfing teaches you is that you go surfing when there is surf or you go powder skiing when there is powder snow. You don't go next Tuesday at 2 o'clock, otherwise you become a loser with an attitude like that"

-- Yvon Chouinard