Mile Marker Zion

[sooZen]

I will take Mingo's Chi Tai to heart. Sounds good to me.

And please no remorse on my behalf, I say whatever I want in my journal and that is the way it should be. Healthy to express your frustrations, me thinks and this is your place to do so. Fire it up if you so wish and more power to ya!

My tent survived intact, thank you but the same couldn't be said for all the tent show gypsies especially those new to the game.

And Nate is Nate, whatever that may be but a good lesson for me all the way around. He always says, "hi" to any and all. So "hi" back atcha.

You can find some pics of our booth here: http://soozenlee.blogspot.com/
thanks for the interest and sadly I am much amiss in keeping that portion of my "business" (posting new pics) up to date but that is the latest I have.

After this weekend, I need Mingo's Chi Tai! I think I can get up but at my age, it is getting harder. And thanks also for the warning about the number, I don't like numbers much anyway.

[judih]

ha Move number 1 of Chi Tai
the definitive move
get it right and it's all okay.

glad to hear your booth pulled through the storm, SooZen.
Shows you know your tent technique. the newbies need to watch you set up next time, but that's up to them, i guess.

do you think mingo's down or up at the moment. Has Chi Tai commenced?

[the mingo]

I'm up, Ladies, I'm up. A September morning's sun come thru the the leaves of the trees outside the south windows making dancing shadows on the wall & floor. Ain't it a hell of a grand day?

[WIREMAN]

dancing w/the world
tomorrrow i grab the
tiger's tail once more

[the mingo]

Sometimes I think I live on the tiger's tail. No big cats around here. Used to be cougars I've been told. All I got these days is coyotes. Lucky me. I like knowing they're out there though. They get going at night just to remind me there was once no roads here and wolves hunted the forests.

[the mingo]

I ain't doin' so stinkin' hot here
just smokin' up the cigarettes
and wonderin' 'bout the blues
(?) ...... I suppose I coulda done
different 'tween there & here
but that's like drawing a map
for a place don't exist
& now there's just me
not interested anymore
in inventing it

let them keep all those revolutions
I just want out of the convolution
you won't find me shooting
or hooting for any side
I'm taking my ride elsewhere
along the river maybe
all the way to the sea

or I could just dig in
the way the moss do
get green & pretty
and cover with myself
every rock in sight

[judih]

showing north
is revolution enough

[the mingo]

Mornin' judih

[the mingo]

Modern business practice is to buy an established name and put it all over a cheaper deal.
Name don't mean anything anymore.

Roads around here used to have real Names. But some years ago a push got underway to use numbers for roads the idea being it would be easier to dumb it down for the emt's and ambulance drivers & firefighters & police who couldn't be bothered to understand the place they were living in so they could "find" people in case of emergency. Hell, life is an emergency as in EMERGEncy.

Names are being shunted away from being of first importance. Person born now got to have a social security number. It is said it makes it easier. Easier for who? Easier for what? Easier for why?

Hell, we have let be numbered the children.

We will all be men & women of no name by & by.

"Hello, my # is ..."

[stilltrucking]

Many places were named by Native people, in birch bark canoes,
traveling upstream pursuing prey, eluding enemies, or visiting relatives
in other villages. Since these first people depended on stories and oral
traditions to convey their understanding and knowledge of the landscape,
the names they gave to places tended to create a visual image in
the traveler’s mind of rough rapids, good fishing or hunting spots, or
the beginnings of carry trails. For Native people, place names served as
verbal maps of their mapless landscape.

http://www.northernforest.org/downloads ... atives.pdf

And the European explorers changed the names to honor themselves.
Ah well.

I been thinking about getting my social security number tattooed on my forehead as a bar code. I worked for a guy who was Seventh Day Adventist. He was always talking about"the mark of the beast". (" so that none may buy or sell, save they have the mark") He was a sweet natured man, he did not rant and rave but he believed it.

[judih]

and what a fine painting you've placed up there a spell, mingo.
one balanced leg and a chi tai dance.

inspiring and sublime.

[the mingo]

Thanx, judih. Glad you enjoyed.

[the mingo]

Jack, I've heard that said too. About the beast that is. Scripture seems clear on that point prophetically.

[the mingo]

... and I'm clear too, ain't I? I have the jawbones of a deer on my porch. That's clear.

I found a timepiece in the trash yesterday.

Ever notice the {yes} in yesterday? There is no yes in the word tomorrow. Some Indians point forward to indicate tomorrow, overhead to indicate today and behind them for yesterday. Not much politics in that now is there?

But I love vanity. It's everywhere. Twisted, turned, raw, half-baked or well done. It's something you can depend upon.

I wrote a letter {yes}terday. Been so long since I wrote anyone with paper & pen I had to consciously remember how to form the letters.

This Internet has ruined me. I remember when I bought this laptop. Took it home. Set it up on the table & turned it on. It began to move it's hinged cover like a mouth and said "You'll - be - sorry" like the cow skull by the water hole in all those old cartoons.

God don't dream. He sees. I read it somewhere in one of the Prophets. It was framed as a rhetorical question. Went like this: Does not He who made the ear hear? Does not He who made the eye see?

I knew a girl growing up whose name was Betty. Like in the Archie comics. She wern't blond though. Brunette. Hair so thick you could get both hands into it. O Betty! You sweet sweet girl you!

Was raining when I woke up. Then it stopped 'bout the time the crows began giving out with their morning calls. You can hear them birds for more than a mile. I don't need to understand what they are saying to each other. I just like to hear them get going. Sure the word is important But it's the voice that makes it is the reason you listen.

Ok, time to gotta git. I've more destinations to make today. Did you see me pointing overhead when I said today?

[the mingo]

sooZen! I almost forgot! I checked out your site. I wanted to be there!
Just walk in the tent and eye candy myself right into a mess. Thanx!