Awwwwwww.
Look at these two sing this great old song!
I love music so much….and I love music that touched me a long time ago and still can move me years later.
This is good stuff.
We say this prayer with the kids when they’re ready to go to sleep.
I’d tell them to shut up if they sounded like this.
This was early marketing at it’s worst….and one of the first instances where a child was given a toy that set the tone of what the experience was going to be ….and didn’t allow them to use their own imaginations to control the “action”.
These dolls were marketed for about 6 weeks and cost what, in our current money, would be about $200.00.
The recording devices were fragile….and often didn’t survive the shipping to market.
Man.
It’s a spooky thing to hear a doll like this.
It’s not a good thing.
Here’s Mo Rocca talking to someone about these dolls.
Knowing about the history doesn’t make them any less spooky.
Shame on you, Mr. Edison.
Shame on you.
Here’s a young couple vlogging a typical day on the road….living in their Toyota camper.
“Young couple”?!
That’s how you get old….in your head…..talking like that.
That’s profiling, too….they may not be all that young.
And….look at what they’re driving!!
What a rig!
Part of my adventure moving through this life is constantly being aware of the fragility of the various beasts that carry me.
What would it be like to drive something so new and so nice?
Would it allow me to be less of a worrywart?
And….what business do they do that allows them to work on the road and support themselves?
I need to figure some of that stuff out….although I work on the road every day to support us all.
The difference with me is that my chunk of road that I work on never changes.
I could use a good road trip soon.
Like….real soon.
Here’s a link to BOUND FOR NOWHERE.
And….here’s a video of the thing they’re driving.
I’m jealous.
Here’s a Swedish woman named Jonna Jinton taking an ice bath.
That looks cold.
It was so hot on the mail route, riding around for 7 hours without air conditioning, delivering all the mail and packages.
This doesn’t look cold enough to cool me down on a hot day like today.
Maybe a Norwegian/Danish hybrid like me needs a nice fjord to swim around in every once in a while to get my head on straight?
Maybe a sauna… like a mail jeep ride….and then a dip in the icy lake would do me a wonder of good.
I’d like to be cool for once in my life.
Too cool.
Eating a peanut butter sandwich and a banana while delivering the mail can never compete with eating fresh rainbow trout cooked over a campfire.
It can’t compete.
There is no comparing the two experiences.
But, and I was telling Jenny this the other day, I get so hungry on the mail route that a peanut butter sandwich, wolfed down while I move between delivery points, tastes like ambrosia.
Not the ambrosia with the little marshmallows…..I’m talking about the kind of food that tastes like a small chunk of heaven….with a small “h”, of course.
I’m talking about deliciousness…..not little marshmallows.
It’s all about real need.
When you’re really hungry, the most mundane “meal” is delicious.
Still….a rainbow trout, cooked like this, would be memorably better than a peanut butter sandwich.
And…..what restaurant, no matter how many Michelin stars it got, could match this for a wonderful dining experience?
What imitation of majesty could come close to a sky full of stars and a cool mountain top breeze?
Funny the things we measure luxury by.
We’re funny creatures, for sure.
What do we know about luxury?
We’d be the ones complaing about manna.
Here’s another video from the woman who did yesterday’s video.
This one features her children.
This type of video is good….meditative….good display of skills.
It’s good to be out in the woods.
Here’s the first episode of a series produced by Telus Storyhive.
This episode is about a family in Northern British Columbia…..living off the grid.
More at http://www.storyhive.com/ .
You try….you learn….and, maybe, you move forward some days.
Nice to see a realistic video every once in a while….and not some doctored bragging session.
“Do something….even if it’s wrong….”
Good advice….
How much joy have I gotten in my life playing and listening to the guitar?
This lady, Christie Lenee, is pretty darn great.
Just another bit of enjoyment.
Man….I love music so much.