2006-Jan-23 - Diversions
It's impossible to chase your dreams all the time. Sometimes we need a break. Time to kick back, let loose, maybe even get away from the LA supermegopolis for a couple days.
I did just that this past weekend. Although we in this fair city must bare traffic, smog, car thefts, high priced real estate, high priced drinks, superficial people, haughty people, people on dangerous drugs, beaches full of human waste, mudslides, killer bees, scientologists, bad theatre, earthquakes, and no NFL football- we've got it pretty good. Within a few hours by boat you can see this (these shots were both taken above Two Harbors on Catalina Island):
 
Here, one is so far from the LA din, it scarcely seems to exist. In a moment like this, one finds oneself at absolute peace with oneself- unfettered by the tethers of the routine, the struggles of the city. Here one can find solace in the unadulterated landscape.
That solace, however, may only last so long if one decides to keep going along the remote path one intially decided to clamor up- and then it gets darker...
...and there are creatures about...
That's a deer up there.
...and one had decided to begin hiking wearing not hiking boots but flip flops, and being that this is Southern California wilderness there are large amounts of f*%#in sagebrush and
cacti!...
...and so one calls his g-friend to tell her he loves her and he's laughing at his idiocy while crying about having to maybe sleep up in the hills because he can't find his way back on the path and- who knows- maybe there's coyotes and he can't really defend himself because he's writhing from the pain from having done his best imitation of 'Brer Rabbit...
...but one eventually finds himself down the hills and back on the road and...
...although it's pitch black, at least there are no f*%#in cacti as far as one can see, and after all is said and done one is welcomed back by familiar faces and a shot of Kentucky's finest: Wild Turkey to ease the terrific pain one is in.
It appears others may have had their share of
the Turkey as well.
What is my point in all of this, you ask? I don't know. I'm so hopped up on pain-killers right now that I'm lucky I know my name. I guess what I want to say is that one's life path is a long journey so sometimes it's good to venture off in a different direction. But beware of that which lurks off the beaten path. And cell phone screens do not make for good flash lights.
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2006-Jan-23 - Poor thing |
| Posted by Anonymous |
| So, how many cactus spines did you manage to get stuck in you? Nice pictures : ) |
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2006-Jan-23 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Gray Shrink |
| You can take the boy out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the boy, but you may be a redneck anyway. This was beginning to sound like an episode of "Lost: Remedial Version". Peace and protect your integumentary system. |
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2006-Jan-24 - brother |
| Posted by Anonymous |
You always did remind me a little of the brer rabbit in the disney cartoon version. I'm not sure why - maybe its the pink button-up shirt.
-mjm |
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2006-Jan-26 - Thank you all for the concerns |
| Posted by KYJoe |
As of Thursday afternoon, I have all but like 17 sagebrush shrapnel lodged in my body.
What with the antibiotics, meds for my other ailment, ginseng, echinacea, and vitamin c, I'm takin 20 pills/day. If this is what it's like at 29, I can't imagine 40- let alone 60! I shudder at the thought. |
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