Driving lessons on the San Francisco Bay.
Driving lessons in the San Francisco Bay from Justin Shaffer.
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“All corn is for Indiana,” Indiana said.
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“In longing for a simpler, more authentic life in a cabin, we keep reinventing happier pasts, pasts that never were.” —
There’s not much in Finn Arne Jørgensen’s article that jibes with me, certainly not his theory above. It amuses me that a magazine co-founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes nearly 3,000 words analyzing hipsters pining for isolation in 2012.
I love spending time in the woods because I believe it’s literally perfect. You could not design it better. It’s marvelous. And, when I’m in my cabin in those woods, I’m not fetishizing a simpler past, I’m fetishizing a simple present. I’m often thinking, “Holy shit, I spend some of my time working on the Internet, most of my time out here, I’m happy, my friends and family like it too, and this is economically sustainable.”
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.” — Laura Vanderkam (via swissmiss)
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My ride.
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My favorite moment this weekend, stumbling upon Vernal Falls from above.
It was an impeccable experience; it’s probably the most splendid national park I’ve visited yet.
Aside, I just read over at Poler:
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
I believe this.
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Arriving in San Francisco in March 1868, Muir immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Marquis notes that “he was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower.
A gifted inventor, Muir designed a water-powered mill to cut wind-felled trees and he built a small cabin along Yosemite Creek, designing it so that a section of the stream would flow through a corner of the room, where he could enjoy the sound of running water.
I’m staying home from Austin this year to go to Yosemite for the first time.
Vimeo cameo in the iPad 3 demo.
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“It’s my experience that artist communities are almost always camps because they appropriate space that nobody else wants (at the time), but by virtue of a creative progressive view of neighborhoods they create a demand from others that ultimately marginalizes them, so they are forever transient.” — James Lynch, founder of Fforest Camp. (via beaverbrook)
My parents visited me this weekend.
Scout was promoted to Director of Security at DIY
