Spiritual home...

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:36 pm

lakes!!!

yo! I'm down with lakes

TyroneShoelaces · Post by **TyroneShoelaces** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:46 pm

jim stone wrote:Sure what hears it calling, and wants to flock, is your spirit?

the flesh is willing and the spirit is weak.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:49 pm

Well said.

TyroneShoelaces · Post by **TyroneShoelaces** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:08 pm

jim stone wrote:Well said.

thanks, but i really can't take credit for writing it.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:26 am

Can a nomadic spirit have a home?

When I close my eyes and imagine where I want to be, I think of an article I read years ago about floating islands that break away. I have always thought about strapping thousands of barrels together and creating one. I would plant cherry trees and raise emus and bunnies on the island and teach the bunnies to harvest the cherries (perhaps using ramps or emus to reach the cherries). The strange thing is that I do not particularly like cherries.

My spirit would drift on the island and visit all of the places shown in this thread and other places that are horrible. It wants to see it all. Even Nuristan's beautiful blue waters would bore my spirit in time. It wants to find perfection and beauty where it is. Often it wants to go to a new place to find different beauty. I have not been disappointed.

A rucksack is what my spirit wants to call home.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:57 am

I.D.10-t wrote:Can a nomadic spirit have a home?
...A rucksack is what my spirit wants to call home.

That makes sense.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:49 am

Well, off you go, then. Don't let us keep you.

djm

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:34 am

Don't go into the light...

choose the dark side.

Mukade

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:22 pm

mukade wrote:

Don't go into the light...

choose the dark side.

Mukade

Slan,
D.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:12 pm

dubhlinn wrote:
mukade wrote:

Don't go into the light...

choose the dark side.

Mukade

Slan,
D.

I have to admit that I have slipped into the light a long time ago.
When I was in Dublin last summer I did go past the Guinness Brewery, and I sampled a few bottles of the dark brew, but I was not impressed. Maybe somewhere in the middle with a light amber would be great for me.

I have been doing some masonry work on my house this summer, so when I look at the above photo of the Guinness gate, I see masonry. I like the old stonework, but the new stonework looks like concrete blocks. I think that they should have taken the time to make the new masonry match the beauty of the old work. Yes, I know that sooner or later the beer truck drivers are probably going to run into it (I see that they have already tried that), but at least for awhile it could look really nice.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:31 pm

My heart is divided between the place of my birth, the American heartland, and my adopted home of 30 years, the American southwest.

Empire Beach on Lake Michigan is a place that I return to year after year. A free public beach with good swimming and magnificent views makes this a wonderful spot to relax. I love to walk along the beach to the large sand dunes along the shore.

As I mentioned above, I lived in Arizona for 30 years. I did field work in the rugged mountains, looking for minerals and whatever else I could discover. I feel more at home here than anywhere else I have been, which is not to say that I don't also like my present home in Indiana, my home state. I include this photo to show that sandals and socks also work on a mountain trail in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:55 pm

Doug_Tipple wrote:My heart is divided between the place of my birth, the American heartland, and my adopted home of 30 years, the American southwest.

Empire Beach on Lake Michigan is a place that I return to year after year. A free public beach with good swimming and magnificent views makes this a wonderful spot to relax. I love to walk along the beach to the large sand dunes along the shore.

As I mentioned above, I lived in Arizona for 30 years. I did field work in the rugged mountains, looking for minerals and whatever else I could discover. I feel more at home here than anywhere else I have been, which is not to say that I don't also like my present home in Indiana, my home state. I include this photo to show that sandals and socks also work on a mountain trail in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson.

Both of those places are miserable. I would discourage anybody from going to either of those places, bad places, bad places.

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:18 pm

dwest wrote: Both of those places are miserable. I would discourage anybody from going to either of those places, bad places, bad places.

I would also discourage people from ever visiting my home town, Santa Barbara. It's a nasty place.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:37 pm

I've only been to two countries and about a dozen states (including DC) but I've found nice things about all of them.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:28 pm