“Whoever controls the past controls the future.”
George Orwell
Control
Words Seldom Seen: Palimpsest
Life Lesson
Will
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
Understanding
“One who understands the truth of things will be wise and happy.”
Hugh Downs at age 95
From: Old Man Country
By Thomas R Cole
Love Everybody
“Love everybody and tell the truth.”
From: Old Man Country
By Thomas R Cole
Another picturesque old tree on the slopes of Mt Baldy. Taken in 2015
Another Good Idea Gone Bad
The photo above shows a part of the Panorama Trail in Yosemite National Park. Sometime in the first half of the 20th Century the trail was covered with a few inches of asphalted like it was a small road. There are remnants like this all over the high country of Yosemite.
It is important to ponder that 70 or a hundred years ago enough people thought that it was a good idea that it got done. Now not so much. The tar is an environmental hazard, it is ugly and hiking on asphalt is not real hiking. What else do we do today that will it turns out be bad ideas in a few generations or even less.
For instance government insurance for bankers so they have risk free money to loan. For example: Student Loans, The FDIC,
How about letting Public Employees Unionize? How is that working out?
Windmills?
Birthday Haiku
Simon’s birthday dreams
Yosemite Half Dome looms
Free Solo awaits
Composed for me for my birthday by Bob K. Haiku-san
We had an excellent trip to Yosemite. With lots of good company, hiking and stream play.
A Great Life
“I’ve had a great life.
If I die today I would not feel cheated.”
Rabbi Sam Karff
From: Old Man Country
By Thomas R Cole
Photo is from the Mt. Baldy area in Southern California. There are hundreds of these lightening tested trees.
Dignity
“Death with dignity is mostly an oxymoron.”
Rabbi Sam Karff
From: Old Man Country
By Thomas R Cole
Photo is from a 2015 hike up My Baden Powell in the San Gabriel Mountains.