still walking and waking: 7/3/11

Saturday, July 9, 2011

the train ride

four people, four bags, four pillows, and seventeen hours


Zoralee in the Observation Car, observing not so much the scenery as the rowdy preteen boys with their electronic games

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

from the mountains to the prairies

The kids (plural -whoa) my mama, and i came by train to north Dakota a few weeks back, Jason and kaladi by station wagon. No Internet yet, but by gum, when we get it, I've got stories and photos galore. This blippet alone is taking forever by iPhone, and blogger won't allow pics from the device (or I don't know how yet).

We'll catch y'all soon!

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When stories are shared, individual experiences become communal experiences. This is hospitality at its most profound.
- - - Doug Pagitt

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- - - John Muir

We can't be bored in the woods if we understand them.
- - - Ray Jardine paraphrased

Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.
- - - Jack Handy

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
- - - Max Ehrmann

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- - - Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
- - - Zora Neale Hurston

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you,
then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still.
Be still until the sunlight pours through
and dispels the mists --
as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
- - - Ponca Chief White Eagle

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
- - - Psalm 34:14