re: gigantic plants They must really be something for a man from Portland/Seattle to be impressed. We in the midwest think the giants grow there. Hope you do get another camera as the picts are great. I'd love to see some of the more rural areas....do be careful at the next fotbul game. I've heard rumors about those wild fans!! ;-)
Sorry to hear it. Sorry to hear about your camera. You should get another. The pictures are great. I hope you are well. Please keep us posted and what do you think of a family moving down there? Please do some scouting.
Randy of seattle.
A picture is worth a thousand words... Well my friend, it sounds like you better sharpen your pencil and start pulling out the dusty adjectives. Take the camera getting stolen in a positive light and view it as a chance to improve your writing. Let's start with never describing a sunset as only "beautiful" ever again, especially when it really deserves so much more... =)
This little piggy Ok, I can tell that's a cow on the right and the poor porker in the middle, but what in the world is that on my left (not you, kind fellow!) :)
Perhaps it is best that I not know the identity of the mystery meat, eh?
THanks for the photos. It's grand to see Brazil and you! Love yah, mom
hahaha!!! Oh man, that photo with you near the meat rack is HILARIOUS!!! A typical Kirkley shot!
Speaking of chickens, we got some babies in and hopefully we'll have birds ready to eat by the end of July...muhahaha...
re: aprendendo "Listen up America, because it's exactly where you're headed."
It might take a while for the US to wake up, but it's not hard to see the signs. Sometimes the clearest view is from the outside looking in. When I went back home to the Philippines, I saw people who were hopeful of seeing industrialist style progress - golf courses, modern malls, airports, tourist hotels, things that "civilized", "first (class) world" elites bestow among the "culture deprived" masses. It's not hard to see where the masses fit in the vision of the expert leaders - as future wage-slaves catering to the whims of the moneyed people. Am I training my daughters to grow up like that, spending 16 of their best years to learn the tricks of the trade, of how to become entitled so they don't have to work and make others work for them? Unfortunately, I have to unlearn so much myself; I'm probably not even qualified to complain about something that I'm struggling mightily not to support.
And it should not be about fear or escaping, either, or believing some expert spouting numbers and statistics. The people driving in the fast lanes might have a hard time recognizing the worn out street signs, or perhaps just not care enough to pay attention; but for those people on the margins, on the wrong side of the road, it's simple and clear enough: it's a matter of life and death. When they look at me and what I'm doing, do they see life, or do they feel death?
Superb Glad to see you made it there safely. Did you manage to read about the tar in heaven in the Constitution-Journal while in Atlanta? Alas, before we end up as litter patrol minons in that utopia in the sky we can only hope to be as totally sweet as that woman you met on the plane, moving to Brazil while confined to a walker. Phenomenal it is, that human spirit.
On the flip side, today I went for a 17 mile bike ride through Finley National Wildlife Refuge (binoculars around my neck the whole time), mowed my yard, built an incubator box for the baby chickens we'll have soon (coop comes next), and discovered that my pond is home to two not-yet-identified turtles. Not as cool as Brazil, but almost liveable.
Tomorrow I am off to a wilderness area in the coast range for a dayhike with Mae. I imagine that you, as well, are doing the same old shit--passing time in some urban wasteland--just with a radically different environment. Reminds me of Thoreau on the oppressive nature of habits...
It is moments like these when--as I search for an excellent phrase--I wonder what Jon Suter would say. But then I remember: Who cares, he's in fucking MISSOURRI. And you're in BRAZIL. And I think that's all I need to say.
BLAHDOW!!!!!
~Josh
Bon Voyage Hi Chris....It makes me happy to see you doing something that you have planned for so long. You inspire me to open the door and step outside my comfort level. Dad and I are looking forward to seeing next winter in South America. Take good care of our favorite son. We love you! Mom and Dad
Go Chris Go! Your family loves you and misses you already. But we're also very much behind you and wish you nothing but great experience after great experience. Play safe and know we're here cheering you on. Go Chris Go!
aunt judy
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re: gigantic plants
They must really be something for a man from Portland/Seattle to be impressed. We in the midwest think the giants grow there. Hope you do get another camera as the picts are great. I'd love to see some of the more rural areas....do be careful at the next fotbul game. I've heard rumors about those wild fans!! ;-)