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Post by Jablea on Nov 25, 2012 8:26:42 GMT -5
Ha, I'll give ya bird photos.....
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Post by chapf on Nov 25, 2012 12:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 14:26:50 GMT -5
oooooooh.... BEAUTIFUL BIRDS!!!!! You guys have to watch this!! It looks best full screen.... And I promise I won't post anymore bird youtubes! I love ospreys! They apparently went extinct locally over here like 60 years ago but now there's a few nests reappearing
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 18:06:38 GMT -5
Hearts for all [img src=" i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/Quu3/Adam%20Smilys/Other%20Smileys/wub.gif"][/IMG] Moments allegedly by Jorge Luis Borges, but the author is really unknown
If I were able to live my life again, next time I would try to make more mistakes. I would not try to be so perfect. I would be more relaxed. I would be much more foolish than I have been. In fact, I would take very few things seriously. I would be much less sanitary. I would run more risks. I would take more trips, I would contemplate more sunsets, I would climb more mountains, I would swim more rivers. I would go to more places I have never visited. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more real problems, fewer imaginary ones.
I was one of these people who lived prudently and prolifically every moment of his life. Certainly I had moments of great happiness: Don’t let the present slip away.
I was one of those who never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, an umbrella, and a parachute.
If I could live over again, I would go barefoot, beginning in early spring and would continue so until the end of autumn. I would take more turns on the merry-go-round. I would watch more dawns And play with more children, if I once again had a life ahead of me.
But, you see, I am eighty-five and I know that I am dying.
The original poem: Instantes
Si pudiera vivir nuevamente mi vida, en la próxima trataría de cometer más errores. No intentaría ser tan perfecto, me relajaría más. Sería más tonto de lo que he sido, de hecho tomaría muy pocas cosas con seriedad. Sería menos higiénico. Correría más riesgos, haría más viajes, contemplaría más atardeceres, subiría más montañas, nadaría más ríos. Iría a más lugares adonde nunca he ido, comería más helados y menos habas, tendría más problemas reales y menos imaginarios.
Yo fui una de esas personas que vivió sensata y prolíficamente cada minuto de su vida; claro que tuve momentos de alegría. Pero si pudiera volver atrás trataría de tener solamente buenos momentos.
Por si no lo saben, de eso está hecha la vida, sólo de momentos; no te pierdas el ahora.
Yo era uno de esos que nunca iban a ninguna parte sin un termómetro, una bolsa de agua caliente, un paraguas y un paracaídas; si pudiera volver a vivir, viajaría más liviano.
Si pudiera volver a vivir comenzaría a andar descalzo a principios de la primavera y seguiría descalzo hasta concluir el otoño. Daría más vueltas en calesita, contemplaría más amaneceres, y jugaría con más niños, si tuviera otra vez vida por delante.
Pero ya ven, tengo 85 años... y sé que me estoy muriendo.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 12:03:16 GMT -5
What beautiful images and words to come back too! Hoopla and mirages, it was so nice to hear from you! chapf, your funnies make me laugh out loud! That is ADAM leading his band of Glamberts into the unknown! ;D And thanks to everyone for so much simple kindness and thoughtfulness, the birds and poor sad John Lennon and dragonflies and crazy trains and lychees and that wonderful "Moments." annala and other bird lovers, I promised you a picture of our backyard owl and here she is: I wanted to also share these images of sculptures by Richard Artschwager. He calls these "blps." They are open to interpretation. This article about a retrospective of Artschwager's work in New York has some good quotes about the artist: www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/10/6538724/whitney-retrospective-puts-exclamation-point-richard-artschwagerA master at gleeful surprises ...
His defiance of easy categorization may have placed blockbuster fame just out of reach. ...
The result is one of the most interesting bodies of work in late-20th-century American art ...
... it seems impossible to grow tired of what is on display. ...What do you think? Do you know any human "blps"?
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Post by mahailia on Nov 26, 2012 12:29:35 GMT -5
junie ~ stunning pic of Adam, I have not seen this one before, thanks for posting! And the words describing the artist sound just like Adam, spot on!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, I enjoyed mine so much I didn't even turn on the computer for 4 days!
Enjoying all the beautiful poetry and birds here. There is one that landed in my yard a couple of years ago that was really amazing. I have a pic of it, but it is in my email system and I would have to find it and load onto photobucket to post here, so it will not happen.
We have migratory birds that come through here every year. One is a flock of black birds with yellow breasts and a white stripe on their wings, they are here for about a week every year. We also have swallows that come every year and one pair of them builds their nest on a wire above our back door. They don't seem to mind it opening and closing dozens of times every day. I'm pretty sure they are the same birds, as they rebuild this same nest every year. And we have wild turkeys out in the pasture. I saw the movie "The Big Year" last night that mika wrote so eloquently about. It was a good movie with a great message, thanks mika for writing about it, because without your commentary and analogy, I probably wouldn't have watched the movie. One of the things I love about Atop and the people here, is all the great and wonderful things I learn and see, that I never would have been exposed to, if not for this amazing group of Adam lovers. Thanks Adam, and thanks to all of you here.
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Post by annala on Nov 26, 2012 12:46:55 GMT -5
Junie - love your little owl! Thanks for sharing!
And Mahalia - you may have those Mountain Bluebirds where you live - they love the wide open spaces and ranchlands of the west
Back to Adam - I posted one of my favorite interviews on the Interviews sub-thread - Scotty Rocker in NZ - he's kind of a strange dude, but he and Adam seemed like they were just guys talking together. I also really liked the Sarin Moddle interview. New Zealand comes up with some good ones.
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Post by Alison on Nov 26, 2012 15:32:56 GMT -5
I'm still super busy, but I heard your request Nikki (I won't forget). I should be around more in couple of months, but in the meantime I'm reading and nodding. I'll leave you lovely people with this.
Happiness Revealed -- Louie Schwartzbwerg
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWyWYxrcIg&feature=youtube_gdata_player [/youtube]
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 15:48:17 GMT -5
And Mahalia - you may have those Mountain Bluebirds where you live - they love the wide open spaces and ranchlands of the west You guys are so lucky There's like no interesting wildlife here. Back home there were a few herons here and there which I thought were pretty cool, and some buzzards but that's it. Whenever I went on holiday with my grandparents though they'd always take me to wildlife parks and animal shows. I've seen a lot of weird and wonderful animals that way. But I want to see them in the wild consarn it 8-) By the way you crazy moon gardeners, I noticed recently that one of my all time favourite videos is back on YouTube: Nothing beats this on HD full screen, listening through headphones, in a dark room. Holy trip Batman
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Post by annala on Nov 26, 2012 18:37:23 GMT -5
Nationalglampoon - You know, it's all there for you. Most of the time I'm just poking around my own neighborhood and nearby vicinity to try to see what there is to see. Every place has its own uniqueness. I know that if I were where you live that I would find birds and other things of nature that would be new and different to me. That's one thing I like about birding - no place is boring to me - every place has something special and unique. In the extreme I remember that during the height of the US conflict with Iraq, there was a medic with a special medical team who wrote a blog about the birds and other wildlife he encountered daily in the midst of all that chaos. Just start where you are and look around - you may be surprised and delighted.
Also, I loved your chill-out video. It has one of my favorite sea critters, the Mola Mola (or sunfish) - see .45 to .51. We sometimes see one or two in Monterey Bay - it's a big blobby thing, but it's also so gentle and benign.
Cheers!
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