Please send Becca to Antarctica!
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S.B. left a comment on my last post that I’ve been thinking about all week:
“I don’t think human beings will stay happy very long if they aren’t doing something they feel is fulfilling to…
…we choose to live like monks anyway (having taken no such vow of contemplation) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.— Rolf Potts, Vagabonding
Music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy. The world has seemed more beautiful to me than ever before. I have loved the red rocks, the twisted trees, the red sand blowing in the wind, the slow, sunny clouds crossing the sky, the shafts of moonlight on my bed at night. I have seemed to be at one with the world. I have rejoiced to set out, to be going somewhere, and I have felt a still sublimity, looking deep into the coals of my campfires, and seeing far beyond them. I have been happy in my work, and I have exulted in my play. I have really lived.— Everett Ruess in a letter to Bill, April 18, 1931” - as quoted in Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty
At least that’s what *he* thought.
Evidently in 2003 he told French President Chirac “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”
And you thought it was all about al Qaeda…..HAH!

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