http://childpsychiatryassociates.com/treatment-team/sheila_pottebaum-200/ I spent several days hiking the Devil’s Path this weekend, and when I got back I needed to attend to some internet matters and go to the supermarket. So I spent the greater part of a day in Liberty, where it was raining very impressively. I drove back not terribly worried. I didn’t realize that […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Mountain Floods and Mountain Life.
21-Sep-12Pros ton theon.
10-Sep-12“Shams and reality are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and […]
Old-Time Stumpworming.
08-Sep-12I highly recommend watching the Bill Clinton Democratic Convention speech (video with transcript here) – it is one of the most impressively American speeches I have ever seen – thoroughly and completely in the American tradition of political oratory, folky, homespun, pragmatism and idealism seamlessly blended, wandering, an afternoon’s entertainment in a sleepy little town, […]
Another Way of Looking at Flavor.
07-Sep-12Thoreau on eating wild things. True in many ways: To appreciate the wild and sharp flavors of these October fruits, it is necessary that you be breathing the sharp October or November air. The out-door air and exercise which the walker gets give a different tone to his palate, and he craves a fruit which […]
Wildcat Mountain Life.
04-Sep-12A great piece in The Glorified Tomato on a visit to our mountain. Love love love.
Rocky Soil.
03-Sep-12I had some friends up last week, who had to acknowledge that, as awesome as it would be to feed the world, I’m unlikely to turn my humble abode into the next Central Valley of California and an industrial food-production powerhouse. This they realized as we were working on building new garden beds. Not only […]
Lake Awosting.
02-Sep-12I’m always happy to learn something new about the area, and this time my discovery is Lake Awosting. An incredible place for a swim. It’s normally guarded by an entrance fee, but there are ways around the fee if you park in intelligent places. I am told the water this weekend is 76 degrees. You […]
Timber Rattler Sighting.
02-Sep-12I am aware that there are timber rattlesnakes in the area – my high-school girlfriend managed to grab one while climbing in the Catskills, thinking it was a root, and feeling its warm soft flesh threw it away from her before getting a bite. I’ve done a few landscaping jobs in the Shawangunks where I […]
Wealth, Christ, Romney, Mormonism, and the 47 Percent the President Shouldn’t Be Caring About.
18-Sep-12Shirahamachō-usazakiminami Sometimes I do think that Christianity’s preaching of poverty is a vice, which has broken people like me – that I will never be right, never be happy, never know what is is to be loved or to enjoy human life, because I have been exposed to the message of Christ. I look on Protestantism […]