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Re: I am tripping more than you are. Battling razzberries
... afraid of anything anymore except for death and taxes and the spider in the coffee pot Kierkegaard ... in his outhouse Maybe Mingo is kind to a fault me and jitterbug Alamo rose said he was kind to a fault and I was ...
by stilltrucking
Yesterday, 8:31 am

Forum: The Luck of a Dame
Topic: I am tripping more than you are. Battling razzberries
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[the mingo]

CS - raining here - am hoping for it to leave off but it looks like it may hang for awhile - am wanting to hop on the bicycle and go for a ride - damn how I have come to love that stupid machine - ya know when I was a kid there was a period from about 8 yrs old to about the age of fourteen when a bike was my magic carpet and I could just go when & where I wanted - then the closer to 16 I got the more I wanted a car - more than anything and I was looking at my bike with disdain and as a child's thing I couldn't wait to leave behind me in the dust ... then a few weeks ago and me in my 60's the thought of a bicycle popped into my brain and wouldn't go away - for a long time now I have wished I didn't need a car - the cost & the damage done - license, registration, fees, insurance, the price of gas, of repair, all of it - still need one, mostly to haul groceries & whatnot & the kayaks from time to time -
anyways into all this comes the thought of a bicycle to my brain - so I start checking around and got a good shock - you can pay hundreds if not thousands for a - BICYCLE! WTF?
So being a natural born hunter-gatherer not to mention my veins run thick & hot with scavenger blood of the very first order I hit craigslist. Found myself a 3-speed, bought it. Didn't want to mess with 18, 21, or 27 gears and all the circus that comes with that. Trouble is It pedaled harder than I remember. but I kept taking it out everyday. Remember I ain't ridden for decades and my legs were not ready for this. Got to thinking maybe I did need some more gears after all, lower ones for sure. Back to craigslist. Bought another bike - 21 gears and first ride went AAHHH that's better - so from not having any bikes I now have two and am looking at a kind of bike called a "fixie" - not because it needs repair but because it has only one gear and that is "fixed" in place to the rear wheel so that anytime the rear wheel is turning so are the pedals.
You can't coast on a fixie for this reason - you are always pedaling. Sounds crazy don't it? Yeah, appeals to me. Want to try it. Something to shoot for anyways. So the bike is back in my life - a come-full-circle thing. I have been "readmitted" into the lore of two wheels and a chain. And I am loving it ! My legs have strengthened considerable in the past few weeks to the point I can even pedal the 3-speed around without groaning & bitching.

I had this key show up right in my lap and I weren't even looking for it and the key had one word written upon it and that word was "bicycle" - it's how things happen to me.

Key words - I love key words - hey, next time you go invisible give a holler - I've never seen an invisible woman.
Now it's time for bread, butter, peanut butter, and jam. Breakfast!
catch ya later, Jana.

[the mingo]

Hey Jack, sorry ain't talked to ya in awhile - been doing a lot of riding lately - bike riding - circles circles just going' around in circles - ya know somethin'? It occurs to me I ain't never been to Baltimore ... damn right here in the east too - 'course I ain't never been to New York City either ... maybe I could write a song about the irony of that - been to Japan, Hong Kong, Asia, but never to Baltimore or NYC - should I go country with it or maybe more of a jazz improv?

I think I'll go with the jazz improv - I'm in that kind of mood.

Pedaling along the river two days ago I couldn't get this tune out of my head -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

[creativesoul]

i had to buy a sleeping bag for the camping trip and borrow a tent- why all that causes that stress thing in the stomach- i imagine the usual camping- ceremony crowd and all that people thinking they know something- and -[maybe they do] but i cannot keep on with the 'knowing' like it is a badge of honor- it kind of makes you notice-ive taken to walking uphill- and the gym- with my gypsy woman crawl accross urban america before i go into the mountains- i know i will find a way to pluck my facial hair anyways-cooking for plenty people- and thinking i have to 'be quiet' because i feel like what i see is not really what anyone wants to hear- it would seem if i am not willing to be a slave of the grande pooba that i will have to just take a back seat-<><><><><><><><>being empathic-<>><><>< the health of people can and does affect me-<><><><>< time increments------------------------------------------------------------- with people that are not well- i would not be good at being a nurse= i can do some things - healing- but i stop and end there- i have to leave it up to creator= and i know next year i am going to stay with the crops and land here- and not do that social network up there- i am going to the south pole in sept- 15- porvnier- to see my youngest son- and to eat fish-
i am a mother - after all-
and talk story- because when you are going to be entering grandma hood- lil red riding hood has to take a back seat and make good frenz with wolves- wish i could ride on hwy 30 - i watch enviously when they ride on the path while i am driving my lil toyota truck that i wash like a child- transportation- and i hadda have a truck- because i like going out to the coast and getting slabs of wood- that have been floating in the sea-driftwood- etc- and i could n0t do that with a chick car-[ honda]---

the phone rings incessantly- i do not answer- the phone tells me who it is-and right now- i am writing- ceremony -
i want a bike-

[the mingo]

That is a beautiful ribbon dress - I love the colors in it - you make it yourself or did someone make it specifically for you? When I saw it my first thought was autumn - I saw a fixie bike just yesterday that had almost these same colors and made me think the same thing - autumn. We go camping here too but it's always out-of-the-kayaks camping so there is a bit of stress in getting ready to go ya know - food water flashlights and all the things that just have to go so and did we forget anything - of course we did! Thing is it's usually only once a year. I wish it were more. We head into the mountains find our river get the kayaks down off the Jeep and into the water then start loading all the gear into the boats - it's an art ya know getting all the stuff ya bring packed through those little hatches and into the boat or tied on to it That's not so bad if you are only going overnight or for a weekend but if you're going in for a week Holy Jesus Chrysler ya need a bigger boat. The first kayak we ever bought was an older model tandem with a huge open cockpit. Our single kayaks are 11 feet long with a single watertight hatch in the back but the tandem is 16 feet long and thirty inches across at the beam - I call her the Big Girl or, when I have to wrestle her in confused waters, the "Bear" - the only reason I have kept her around is that she has proved out to be just the workhorse for week long camping trips. She does have a watertight hatch in the back but her biggest advantage is I take the rear seat out and then you have all that open space behind the front seat to put gear and I mean you can PILE it in there without having to be so precise about it - just load her the hell up and go. She's a handful but once you shove off into the current and get her up to speed with all that weight on her she just begins to glide like she owned the place.

You have a Toyota truck? One of the older smaller ones? I mean when they were still small. They ain't anymore, there as big as any Dodge now. I loved those early small trucks.
So ya go down to the sea for driftwood? Yeah. I go down to Lake Ontario for my driftwood runs. I used to walk the shore but now I use the kayak. Began just by using them to scout for likely looking pieces but I learned I could use the boat to get driftwood back to the Jeep - up to a point anyways. I get to combine two favorite things - time in the boat and driftwood scavenging. I love it when things happen out like that.

And if you want a bike I'd say go for it but be careful about listening to a man in love with bikes.

[creativesoul]

Wow- my roomie - when she is on the water - is another soul altogether- part fish- I have been dabbling in kayak myself- I think that having to get everything together is kind of a deferent to doing it more often..., I like stand up cuz ya grab it and go- and it's water- so getting wet is fun- well I know everything is polluted- what's that a " paper mill" over there?
Perhaps it is good I'm being converted-
No it isn't my dress- my dress is turquoise like the water- like the stone- because- all of our water supply is threatened- idle no more-
My dress was made for me- I can cook- clean and pray- camp cook- I wonder if I will love it as much as I did last time- after all- it is a mountain! St Helen's waving in the distance- mt baker- Indian heaven- it's cowlitz land- sacred- only women pick the huckleberries-and children - the men had horse races- I love those kind of past lives- ghost guardians- spirit helpers- blessed beyond belief to be alive- defying medical science with herbs and food as medicine- yay!!!

[the mingo]

Some days are a whirlwind - rain last night - the traffic making that swish sound as it goes by - end-of-summer spirits walking the land preparing the way for the turn to autumn - yesterday Jess got his fixie bike - had to partially assemble it then we hit an abandoned parking lot - fixie bikes whole different world from other bikes - your approach has to be completely different - fixie has no coasting function - none - bike in motion pedals in motion - the thing is its own world - went kayaking last Sunday - we did it up right

[Diana Moon Glampers]

I walk the streets of Nagasaki with Lawrence Ferlinghetti

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: The last year of the war, I was a navigator on a big troop transport, and we started out to go to Japan as the invasion force. We had [5,000 troops] on board, and we were headed for Japan when the bomb was dropped.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: How close to the time it was dropped?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: About six weeks after Nagasaki had been bombed, we went over there on a train. No one knew anything about atomic bombs, and no one ever heard of radiation, and we walked around the ruins of Nagasaki, which was just like a couple of square miles of mulch, nothing but mulch with human hair and bones sticking out, and it was a horrible sight to see.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Did it begin the process of your becoming very political?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Oh, definitely, yeah.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: How about pacifism? Are you a pacifist?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Oh, definitely.

PBS interview

talk at ya later
in—Friendship

[the mingo]

I'd still like Emmylou Harris as a birthday present -

[the mingo]

we got little problems
we got big problems
the whole nation is a fiction
tribe rules
there are lots of tribes
gonna poof woof
goin' out through the roof
people blowing strong
ravel up the travel
hit the gravel
throwing stones up at goliath
the man had no music
was bound to fall
to little david who had no schedule
just his God
look out the man
is reaching for his horn
and the tribes
gonna dance

[Diana Moon Glampers]

that's my problem
no music in me
it just passes through me

Sorry I deleted one here, hid it over on my artbog

"Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him" The Brothers Karamaazov

I am a word freak, what can I say, a word kook from the git go
"pussie in peril" Maureen Dowd— Are Men Necessary?

[the mingo]

" I forget whose turn it is to buy so I'll just do it myself " -
Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn

Got a word fetish myself, Jack, and a knack for arranging things over & against, up & down, in a line or in a circle and for turning the whole thing inside out.

[stilltrucking]

concrete words
chiseled in stone
or wrote on mud
washed away with the tides of time

haunted by words,
haunted by gods
in the good old days before words and
after thoughts
before speech
before I had the capacity to lie
back when I was still a laid back ape.


obsidian words that cut just like a razor blade
encouraging words where the Buffalo roam
words for sale cheap

[the mingo]

" Words are also the inhabitants of a traveling summer carnival. "
The Pocket Distant Dictionary of Bones - Hut Natch

[the mingo]

A library has become something to carry around in your pocket. When you want it simply pull it out of your pocket and turn it on.

The Constant Carnal Nature of Curves - Karbella Velkaas