travel

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison I am moving a mountain again today. This one isn’t made of snow. As a matter of fact it has no physical qualities at all and it is the biggest… Read more

“I moved a mountain yesterday” she said in a victorious voice. We had our first blizzard like storm in a while.  The wind was blowing so hard there was nowhere for the snow to go and it blew into a snow pile right in front of my garage. If that pile hadn’t formed I could… Read more

It’s a snowy day here in the Northland meaning winter remembered us after all. I was thinking about back in the day that waking up to a snowy landscape was the signal for a do nothing kind of day. Schools would be closed and the sound of snow plows and blowers would fill the air.… Read more

Why is this thought trapped in my head. What do you want? What is that you said? as I forget again the thought trapped in my head But I felt it, sensed it, it filled me with dread the thought hovering like a ghost forgetting its dead. Go away and leave me thought trapped in… Read more

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau  After being in Sancerre where life is so quite and tranquil being in Paris was the direct opposite. The city bustled with life, art and and plenty of beautiful people. Being in the… Read more

Today is my last full day in Sancerre with one class left to attend and only 24 more hours to experience life in this very old tranquil village. Tomorrow I head back to Paris where it is beautiful but I would not call it tranquil, but I do love the bustle of a big city.… Read more

I stand for rational self interest as a primary value for one’s life. And, understandably I stand against the virtue of selflessness, this utterly false concept that you live your life in service to others. I stand for man’s ability to create, produce and achieve for his own happiness. What do you stand for? Scott… Read more

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings Found this quote this morning and it about sums it up. A fight begins in… Read more

I wake up in the morning and the sky is as dark as pitch. This picture is out my window at almost 8am. I thought Minnesota was dark in the winter nope. I go somewhere to get out of the dark of Minnesota and frankly the cold and here I am nearly at the same… Read more

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence English novelist (1885 – 1930) Silly as it seems this line came to me in the movie G. I. Jane. I watched this movie… Read more