May 6, 2005
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FRIDAY FIVEWell, it’s meme day anyway, so here’s my answer to the one I got tagged with. The buck stops here though unless you want to respond with your own answers.
Find five things you could be and complete the sentence on how it would contribute to society:
1. I could be willing to tell my own story so that some descendent years from now can look back down the stream that has carried them and find perhaps a clue or two to the great mystery of how it all evolves.
2. I could be a lover of animals, willing to take responsibility for a few and delight from many, and willing to alter some living habits for their sake.
3. I could be a proactor for my health, diligent in protecting and supporting it so that I may stay here long enough yet to further understand the miracle and be of use.
4. I could be a student of voluntary simplicity, attempting to lighten the load of material clutter of all sorts in order to see and support the true beauty of life.
5. I could be an internal traveler, done with outer geography, packed and ready for meetings of the mind.
Deep Thought: “I’d like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he’s flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that’s a documentary!”
Today I am grateful for: Home
Guess the Movie: “Reagan usually does the driving. Stolen switch car. They leave it running… on the curb. It look sparked from the distance. When they run they dump the vehicle and they vanish… like a virgin on prom night. I mean they vanish, swishh…” Answer: Point Break, 1991.
Winner: soobee72.
New Rule to Open National Forest to Roads
New Federal Rules Will Open Up to 58.5 Million Acres of National Forestland to Road Building
by John Heilprin
The Bush administration, in one of its biggest decisions on environmental issues, moved Thursday to open up nearly a third of all remote national forest lands to road building, logging and other commercial ventures.
The 58.5 million acres involved, mainly in Alaska and in western states, had been put off limits to development by former President Clinton, eight days before he left office in January 2001. (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 9:44 pm
+ = Got an orchid from turtle_dove for Mother’s Day – super!
- = It’s going to rain on Mother’s Day – rats.
Comments (14)
I respect your five choices and shall adopt them myself If you don’t mind. They include some of my goals. Your #’s 1 and 5 are among those I attempt to practice when possible. I am working on my own health responsibility and though we are drowning in STUFF, my soul seeks simplicity and I am very aware of that.
Life is certainly an adventure. Have a good day and a delightful weekend!
I’m guessing Point Break?
And you are all those things!
Point Break wins!
five things i could be? damn, i have to think about this…..
Yeah, they filmed a bunch of scenes up at Beacon Rock State Park which is where I lived at that time when I worked up in the Gorge. They had a stagecoach and everything. It was pretty cool to watch them, the director, all the producers, their stand-ins. I think they even filmed the sternwheeler scenes right there at Cascade Locks on the river too.
1. I could be more of an educator – teaching educators how better to deal with kids who function the way I did (and other problems) – instead of cleaning up the messes at the far end.
2. I could be better to/for the significant others in my life, allowing them to feel safe with me.
3. I could be someone who thought more before he said things – and thus be somewhat more self-protective.
4. I could be less lazy, and thus get more done.
5. I could be dead, and not bother people anymore.
sorry, I’ll try that again on a better day.
Your five things are on my list, too. I know a lot of people (RYC) who gave up on lifestyle changes and went with medication, and a couple who did both. I might have done the same, had I been subjected to a bit more pressure. But I think it is better to live a healthy life and avoid drugs when possible. It’s easier when you have some support from others.
Happy Mother’s Day to you too!
Have a lovely Mother’s Day, and I hope the rain stopped a bit for you and yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wonderful site.. thanks for trippin through mine.. i reallly like it here.
That expletive deleted is dismantling every bit of environmental protection on the books, so that his big business cronies can make a profit, and to hell with the problems faced by the next generation! I get so mad I could …..
I love reading about what you could be and as your daughter knows…you already are.
Here’s to going deep internally.