Found this looking up videos about Jeeps….trying to figure mine out.
Check out this young bass player backing these guys up!
What a low-end zen master!
“Low-end” like….bass…low end.
Man….there’s a lot of interesting stuff in the world!
The band is The War and Treaty…..the song “Jeep Cherokee Laredo”.
And….CHECK OUT THE KID PLAYING BASS!!
I’m moaning and groaning about driving the mail around on a sunny day….listening to the radio and getting to go home at the end of the day….tired but clean.
I’m just tired….whining some.
I’m not down in some mine.
That might be good.
I guess that any job….if you have the wrong mindset…can get old.
Listen to these guys talk about taking care of their families and how they take pride in what they do.
That counts for a lot.
I’d rather get my power from the sun if I could manage it….but you have to admire guys that do something hard to take care of their families.
I should quit whining inside my head.
It’s a good thing to take care of your family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFClGV8WJ4
When you buy a Jeep with issues….and then plan to drive it across the country after doing some work to it….it’s a faith drive.
That’s pretty cool.
A combination of skills and experience are the only thing that would allow you to do this.
Or….lack of experience and blind optimism.
When you don’t know what would potentially happen in situation like this, you might start off on a long trip in a car that didn’t deserve any confidence.
I’ve done that.
Now, I know enough to worry about everything.
I love the junkyard shots.
It’s a good thing to see potential in what other people would see as “junk”.
Seeing potential is a good thing.
Here’s a follow-up to this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tma8WNMucQg
Here’s some video from last year’s Coon Dog Day.
This year, I had to deliver the mail on a Saturday because my sub quit.
It poured.
Now, rain makes a day of delivering mail pretty rough.
So does a town full of partying people.
But….when the rain makes the partying people all go home, it’s easy to deliver the mail.
I don’t want the rain to….rain on anybody’s parade….but…I was thankful that the day was easier.
Coon Dog Day is pretty cool.
I wish I was just walking around eating a corn dog and not delivering the mail, though.
That would make it a lot more fun.
Did I mention that it POURED this year?
That was rough on the party.
I remember the local junkyard loaning me some tools to take something that I thought I needed apart….and then not even charging me for the part that I destroyed before I realized it wouldn’t work for what I thought I needed it for.
Man.
Here’s a guy who made a 30 minute video about what tools you might need at the local pick-a-part.
It’s pretty interesting….if you’re in to that sort of thing.
Here’s a funny new one from Ry Cooder….from the album “Prodigal Son”.
I feel like a beat up shrinking man after a hot and hard day delivering mail.
We shrink when we get older.
How small am I going to get?
From Happen Films description of this video:
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on an urban 1/4-acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals. They grow most of their own food, don’t own cars and ride their bikes instead, use very little electricity, and forage food and materials from their local forest. We found their story super inspiring and we think you will too!
Find more from Happen Films Here!
And….watch their feature “Living the Change” https://livingthechangefilm.com/watch
This is the artist…who designed the sculpture….that’s going to NYC….after being built by my daughter, Zoe, and her engineering co-horts….
That is pretty cool.
I met Mel at an unveiling of the sculpture….pre move to NYC….that the artist and engineers had at UNCA earlier in the week.
Mel has a good and mellow sense of humor and I enjoyed meeting him.
This installation of the sculpture and the augmented reality part that goes with it is a big deal.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anything like it.
Of course, there’s a whole world of things that I haven’t seen and that I don’t know about….yet.
I wonder how much I’ll see before I leave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gL6gW8FNcA