began to glide....................

 

He went to find a shooting star
Around the bend that's where they are
I went along just for the ride
Suddenly I began to glide

Standing in a slide zone
I could be steppin' through a time zone

The air raced by there was no sound
We drifted high above the ground
And then said you know this place
And then a smile lit up his face

Standing in a slide zone
I could be steppin' in a slide zone . . .

Help me please I thought I said
Then something happened in my head
Music came from all around
And I knew what I had found

-John Lodge, The Moody Blues, Steppin' In A Slide Zone

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the road is the goal....................

“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

in the scene.................................

“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. 
      On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.” 


-Robert M. Pirsig,  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Is this a great world, or what.................?

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Madly...............................

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I don't know if people will actually...........

...........................................vote for him, but I suspect that the entertainment value in  #1 below is why he is doing so well in the polls.

thanks gerard

Fifty years ago................................

At the movies.......................................................Cat Ballou

Holy speeding ticket, Batman.......................

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On creating a legend..............................

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A historical fact...................................

The above was posted by Kurt Harden.  He's a youngster.  Back in my day, the photo would have included at least one of these beauties: