Here’s two videos from the brothers at americarecycled.org I made some fun of the folks up in Asheville in yesterday’s post…but this is pretty amazing what these brothers are doing traveling around America and filming what they see. I’ve talked … Continue reading
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This kind of stuff used to look appealing. I used to think that communal living would be pretty great. I was born in 1960…so even if I was just a kid, somehow I identified with all the hippies and that … Continue reading
I have a bunch of places on my mail route where I have to cross a dormant railroad track. I slow down each time I cross it…look both ways…and then remember that it’s been years since a train has come … Continue reading
We were kidding around coming home from town the other day. It was kind of inappropriate, but we were talking about what some people might say to scare people away from our mountain region… things along the lines of “don’t … Continue reading
“Beautiful enough to cause the Angels to stop in mid-flight.” That’s a quote from this film about homesteading. These are my people. This is where my family came from. It’s funny to listen to this…all the cadences of the voices…the … Continue reading
Something free sounds pretty good to an 18-year-old manboy. The summer before my senior year of high school, I went up to Minnesota with a buddy to work for a high-voltage electrical contractor. The contractor was building power line towers … Continue reading
I woke up this morning and realized that it was the beginning of another 6-day cycle. I woke up this morning and was rooted to the bed after remembering that this was the day that starts the whole thing over … Continue reading
This is a video about a guy named Heimo Korth who lives a backwoods life up in Alaska. I’d read a book about him a while back called “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic … Continue reading
I see these videos and it just cements something that I always knew… it’s a big world out there. Looking for a video to include in the blog this morning, I thought that it was kind of funny now that … Continue reading
I have a friend who is a songwriter who has absolutely zero internet presence. I’m not saying that he doesn’t have presence…he has more presence than most people I know. He’s a very charismatic guy. It’s just that he hasn’t … Continue reading