April 2007
13 posts
don't buy this piece of gear...
As piggy back to the previous post, I found an interesting write-up about gear testing, and the how its easy (definitely me included) for consumers to want the “best gear” but that the high-end gear may not be the best thing. For the record, I own way too many jackets for a single person, and I’m still learning how to turn off the “want better gear” voice.“We...
“We as consumers often have a tendency to look at a product and think, “Is...”
– Gravsports: Gear Testing
Don't Buy This Shirt Unless You Need It
I was talking to Polly last night about this and wanted to pass on the essay. From the website ChangeThis, and specifically this essay In an economy of abundance, there is enough. Not too much. Not too little. Enough. Most important, there is enough time for the things that matter: relationships, delicious food, art, games and rest. Many of us in the United States live in what is thought to be...
“Europeans enjoy a 25 percent higher quality of life than Americans (while we...”
– Don’t Buy This Shirt Unless You Need It
Or, look at the people of Bhutan, whose king insists on measuring “gross national happiness.” Any person or nation can grow fatter and fatter, richer and richer, sleepwalking toward disaster. Or we can choose to remain lean and quick, wealthy in beauty and time and, that word that inspired our forefathers, wealthy in happiness.
its snowing
I really enjoy the spring weather in a mountainous state. It was warm, windy but clear this morning. Then it started to sleet, and now that its snowing I can barely see across the parking lot in front of my building. Friday’s forecast is a high of 53°F and clear. I really like stormy weather. Snowbird is expecting 4 to 7” of snow. Too bad the canyons is already closed for the...
Thoughts continued
After thinkin’ some more about personal change, motivation, climbing and life in general. I’m pretty happy with who I am and where I’ve come from. Arkansas kid got married, got outta town, moved west, and is learning to life freely. I think my lack of internal motivation is just a convenient way to say that sometimes its just easier for me to be lazy. I am plenty motivated for...
Thoughts after City of Rocks
Yeah, this post is gonna take a bit longer to write, but the quotes are where it’ll start. The premise is that through several aspects of the trip I have found that I’m in need of some introspection and personal change/improvement. In a nutshell: I don’t climb as well as I’d like because I worry and I don’t keep up with things because I’m not organized or I...
“Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a...”
– Albert Einstein
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them...”
– Andy Warhol
A new look at bloggin
I’m thinking of moving my blog Dispatches of the Dacus to here. The idea would be to simplify the technical details of blogging and just post ideas, pictures, quotes etc with less fuss. That’s the hope and the promise of this service. We’ll see how it works out.