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Forgot to take pic - 01.05.12 Circa Summer ‘05 No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. — Xenophanes

Forgot to take pic - 01.05.12

Circa Summer ‘05

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

— Xenophanes

14 March 2012 • 01.05.12 wc nd badlands trnp julie

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12 Circa Summer ‘05 Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going. —Hunter S Thompson

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12

Circa Summer ‘05

Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

—Hunter S Thompson

14 March 2012 • 01.04.12 wc nd dad badlands trnp

circa late ‘98, early ‘99 I forgot to take a picture for 08.15.11 I also forgot to tell you about my hot sock. I lost my camera bag on some trip. To remedy the situation, my brother-in-law, suggested I use a sock to protect it from getting scratches & stuff. I buy socks by the 6-pack from Ross, so I have 12 of the same sock, and inevitably one of these pairs loses a mate. So I grabbed one of my single estranged socks and started putting my camera in it when it was in my bag. I was at Apex with my housemates & Radhika having a brew & a burrito from Los Gorditos.  Whenever I go to Los Gorditos I stock up on their hot sauce.  They recently started making a new kind that I call the face melter. Well, as luck would have it, while my bag was sitting on the picnic table seat at Apex, it fell and one of the little plastic carafes of the face melter spilled open and all over everything in my bag. I cleaned up as much as I could, but my bag still kinda smelled hot & garlicy.  I washed the sock and did a more thorough cleaning the next day. Jump to my MN trip, my uncle and I get delayed 12 hours in PDX, so we get to MN and the hotel at like 7a. I hang out for a few hours, waiting for my folks to arrive. I end up talking one of the hotel clerks into let me into my folks’ hotel room early, so I can shower & nap. After my disco nap & shower, I change my clothes. Later that evening, one of my feet was experiencing a burning sensation.  I didn’t think much of it, but did find it curious.  The next day, my other foot starts burning.  Then I realize I was wearing the sock I spilled the face melter sauce on, and I happened to switch feet the next day. This sock had worked its way into my sock rotation and one wash was not enough to remove the face melter. Nice.

circa late ‘98, early ‘99

I forgot to take a picture for 08.15.11

I also forgot to tell you about my hot sock.

I lost my camera bag on some trip. To remedy the situation, my brother-in-law, suggested I use a sock to protect it from getting scratches & stuff.

I buy socks by the 6-pack from Ross, so I have 12 of the same sock, and inevitably one of these pairs loses a mate. So I grabbed one of my single estranged socks and started putting my camera in it when it was in my bag.

I was at Apex with my housemates & Radhika having a brew & a burrito from Los Gorditos.  Whenever I go to Los Gorditos I stock up on their hot sauce.  They recently started making a new kind that I call the face melter. Well, as luck would have it, while my bag was sitting on the picnic table seat at Apex, it fell and one of the little plastic carafes of the face melter spilled open and all over everything in my bag. I cleaned up as much as I could, but my bag still kinda smelled hot & garlicy.  I washed the sock and did a more thorough cleaning the next day.

Jump to my MN trip, my uncle and I get delayed 12 hours in PDX, so we get to MN and the hotel at like 7a. I hang out for a few hours, waiting for my folks to arrive. I end up talking one of the hotel clerks into let me into my folks’ hotel room early, so I can shower & nap.

After my disco nap & shower, I change my clothes. Later that evening, one of my feet was experiencing a burning sensation.  I didn’t think much of it, but did find it curious.  The next day, my other foot starts burning.  Then I realize I was wearing the sock I spilled the face melter sauce on, and I happened to switch feet the next day. This sock had worked its way into my sock rotation and one wash was not enough to remove the face melter.

Nice.

21 October 2011 • 08.15.11 fargo nd ginger hair

2/14/97 Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. —Gustave Flaubert

2/14/97

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

—Gustave Flaubert

1 September 2010 • 2/14/97 arielle v-day williston nd

8/7/10 He hadn’t a single redeeming vice. — Oscar Wilde

8/7/10

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

— Oscar Wilde

10 August 2010 • 8/7/10 fargo nd todd inger

8/6/10 Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/6/10

Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are.

—Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

10 August 2010 • 8/6/10 wc parents mom dad nd roadtrip

8/5/10 Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/5/10

Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled.

—Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

10 August 2010 • 8/5/10 wc nd backyard mom garden

8/4/10 If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise. —Goethe

8/4/10

If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.

—Goethe

4 August 2010 • 8/4/10 matt nd wc badlands trnp

8/3/10 Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. —John Moffat

8/3/10

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

—John Moffat

4 August 2010 • 8/3/10 wc nd dad's study

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3 August 2010 • 8/2/10 wc nd mom garden

8/2/10 You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. — Ramana Maharshi

8/2/10

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

— Ramana Maharshi

3 August 2010 • 8/2/10 nd theodore roosevelt nat'l park badlands

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2 August 2010 • 8/1/10 new salem salem sue nd

8/1/10 “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain

8/1/10

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

— Mark Twain

2 August 2010 • 8/1/10 dickinson nd sunset

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2 August 2010 • 7/31/10 jason fargo nd

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2 August 2010 • 7/31/10 arielle gus wahpeton nd