WOW!!
I am wowed and in awe my friends and family...I havn't had much time for a lot of things, like checking my L.J. Being one of them. I have a lot to say, and well, not much time to say it in a most of you know. So I'll try and keep this a oraginzed as possible, but bare with me.
I didn't go hiking up south Sister yet, but this last weekend I whent up Mt. Bachelor for my annual Mt. B climb. There is a lot of reasons why I do this, I don't have the time to go inot it now, if any of you are ever curious, ask me sometime and I'll tell you. What I was/am getting at is that I've never made it to the top in 2 hrs. or under. But I did, i did it in 1 and50 min. ROCKIN! Plpus, I've never made it down under an hour and half; and there is snow that stay there on one part of it all year around. So I get to sled/surf/slide all the way down that part. But this year it was littleral amlost completely gone. Wich also made me sad and worried for reasons I'm sure most of you can understand. Anyway, I made it it down in about 45 min.!! YAY ME! I can't believe I did that. It makes me very thankful to God for creating my body the way he did! Plus, having the right mind set helps more than anything I beleive too!
So, this next weekend, being labor day...I'm going to hike up South Sister, the 3rd largest Mountain in Orgeon.. All 13 miles up a mountain of it! There's a glacier lake named Lewis! Since that's my legal last name, I am going to bring my camera and take a picture of it. I'll post about that experience whent i get bakc from it.
Well, since I moved in with my friend Paul into an apartment, I've been biking to work. On my firt ride to work since i moved into the apartment. I have a very sad experience. I was riding my bike to work around 6 am when I came across this male duck/Mallard that had been hit by a car. I could tell it had happend farely recently. There was a femal e duck right besie him in the middle of the road that was his mate (at least that what I gathered.) My heart whnet out to her, and still does..because people wher driving by and she was littleraly staying by his body and wouldn't leave. So when cars came by she was ltterally dodging them and making sure that his body and she did not get hit. When she saw me (I slowed down and gotoff my bike) she started to tallk to me and cry (lots of different quacking and looks) and I swear to you that I could feel her pain. I truly felt SO bad, I could this huge emount of painful and sad emoton flow right into me and had to choke it back. My friends and family....People where littlerally driving like they didn't care. I GOT SO FRIKIN PISSED OFF!! I got in the rodethe fist chance I got and where making people more aware to pay attention and have a little heart...The lady ducks mate/love had been slaughtered! This one guy next came up and expressed his mutual pain and concern and he an I got her mates body of the rode and onto the natural ground on thre sie of the road. I made em so mad, sad and ashamed at what had happened! Then towrds the end of prrtecting the female in the road until i could get it off the rod (when i left the road for a sec to talk to the guy who helped) this uncompassionate stupit hic dumbass drive by in his hot rod going faster than nessisary doesn't even try and go around the female and amost hits be she got out of the way just in time. I got so pissed I whent in the rod and flicked him off and he slowed down and yelled something hostile at me and and I didn't help extingwish the feeling cuase I was to mad and yelled back "FUCK YOU!!" he didn't like that very much and just kept going. After all this happend i got to wrok almost late for a meeting and told my fellow co-workers what happend. They didn't even seem to care at all. None of them expressed the slightest hit of remorse. Mckenzie (a girl I work with) actually LAUGHED! Needless to say, I was a disapointed in them.
I started reading this book that Ren loaned to me called "in praise of wolves". It's been really great and I'm laring things i had no idea wolves felt or displayed. i had some idea when the ones from M.W. came hrere and I got to look into there eyes and relize they where lookking INTO me. When Once came up top me and let me pet her and cshe licked me (wich is something the the creator of Mission Wolf said they don't normally do, save to once they feelr eally comfortable with) I knew ther was a very strong divine pressence to them that at least meet if not excells ours. Anyway, I was reading this part that i now don't have enough time to go into. But it totlay astonished me what I read. I have this feeling of GREAT awe, respect, and understanding. yet at the same time ashamed of my own race. Because most peole don't even have what they still have; and I myslef felt totlaly connected to them istantly, just from what o learned.
Now I must go, take care godspeed,
"No real naturalist assumes that he knows all about any mamal species. If he ever reaches that point, he is promptly disilusioned by acquaintance with an individual that behaves as nother of his kind have acted before..." -Victor H. Cahalane,
Mammals of North America
I didn't go hiking up south Sister yet, but this last weekend I whent up Mt. Bachelor for my annual Mt. B climb. There is a lot of reasons why I do this, I don't have the time to go inot it now, if any of you are ever curious, ask me sometime and I'll tell you. What I was/am getting at is that I've never made it to the top in 2 hrs. or under. But I did, i did it in 1 and50 min. ROCKIN! Plpus, I've never made it down under an hour and half; and there is snow that stay there on one part of it all year around. So I get to sled/surf/slide all the way down that part. But this year it was littleral amlost completely gone. Wich also made me sad and worried for reasons I'm sure most of you can understand. Anyway, I made it it down in about 45 min.!! YAY ME! I can't believe I did that. It makes me very thankful to God for creating my body the way he did! Plus, having the right mind set helps more than anything I beleive too!
So, this next weekend, being labor day...I'm going to hike up South Sister, the 3rd largest Mountain in Orgeon.. All 13 miles up a mountain of it! There's a glacier lake named Lewis! Since that's my legal last name, I am going to bring my camera and take a picture of it. I'll post about that experience whent i get bakc from it.
Well, since I moved in with my friend Paul into an apartment, I've been biking to work. On my firt ride to work since i moved into the apartment. I have a very sad experience. I was riding my bike to work around 6 am when I came across this male duck/Mallard that had been hit by a car. I could tell it had happend farely recently. There was a femal e duck right besie him in the middle of the road that was his mate (at least that what I gathered.) My heart whnet out to her, and still does..because people wher driving by and she was littleraly staying by his body and wouldn't leave. So when cars came by she was ltterally dodging them and making sure that his body and she did not get hit. When she saw me (I slowed down and gotoff my bike) she started to tallk to me and cry (lots of different quacking and looks) and I swear to you that I could feel her pain. I truly felt SO bad, I could this huge emount of painful and sad emoton flow right into me and had to choke it back. My friends and family....People where littlerally driving like they didn't care. I GOT SO FRIKIN PISSED OFF!! I got in the rodethe fist chance I got and where making people more aware to pay attention and have a little heart...The lady ducks mate/love had been slaughtered! This one guy next came up and expressed his mutual pain and concern and he an I got her mates body of the rode and onto the natural ground on thre sie of the road. I made em so mad, sad and ashamed at what had happened! Then towrds the end of prrtecting the female in the road until i could get it off the rod (when i left the road for a sec to talk to the guy who helped) this uncompassionate stupit hic dumbass drive by in his hot rod going faster than nessisary doesn't even try and go around the female and amost hits be she got out of the way just in time. I got so pissed I whent in the rod and flicked him off and he slowed down and yelled something hostile at me and and I didn't help extingwish the feeling cuase I was to mad and yelled back "FUCK YOU!!" he didn't like that very much and just kept going. After all this happend i got to wrok almost late for a meeting and told my fellow co-workers what happend. They didn't even seem to care at all. None of them expressed the slightest hit of remorse. Mckenzie (a girl I work with) actually LAUGHED! Needless to say, I was a disapointed in them.
I started reading this book that Ren loaned to me called "in praise of wolves". It's been really great and I'm laring things i had no idea wolves felt or displayed. i had some idea when the ones from M.W. came hrere and I got to look into there eyes and relize they where lookking INTO me. When Once came up top me and let me pet her and cshe licked me (wich is something the the creator of Mission Wolf said they don't normally do, save to once they feelr eally comfortable with) I knew ther was a very strong divine pressence to them that at least meet if not excells ours. Anyway, I was reading this part that i now don't have enough time to go into. But it totlay astonished me what I read. I have this feeling of GREAT awe, respect, and understanding. yet at the same time ashamed of my own race. Because most peole don't even have what they still have; and I myslef felt totlaly connected to them istantly, just from what o learned.
Now I must go, take care godspeed,
"No real naturalist assumes that he knows all about any mamal species. If he ever reaches that point, he is promptly disilusioned by acquaintance with an individual that behaves as nother of his kind have acted before..." -Victor H. Cahalane,
Mammals of North America