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Neil Diamond   Forever In Blue Jeans

You Don't Bring Me Flowers 1978

RADIO SHOW:

The Magic Carpet Ride was over the top and couldn't be more jazzed about it. Listen HERE NOW while you surf the world wide inter webbie. Simply click on Thursday the 19th , Magic Carpet Ride, and then Dan Yankee. I linked the calendar to the above 'here now' for easy navigation. 

The theme for your listening pleasures would be The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling's words of wisdom. The music gracefully intertwined with the short clips and the feedback was beyond my wildest dreams. Phone calls rang in from enthusiastic folks that I hadn't heard from in many many moons. I thought a lot about how to smoothly pull off this show, made copious notes, and this show is a representation of complex prep work. It's a damn entertaining show and worthy of a stream. Stoked 

ANIMAL:

This would be an explanation from the rattlesnake photo in my previous post. A few of you showed interest and here we go. 

I attended a Personal Facilitation course way back when and there was rousing chatter regarding spirit animals and medicine animals and all that good hippy dippy Indian stuff. The instructor agreed to lead us through a guided meditation of sorts to discover our spirit animal. We relaxed stretched out on the floor, dimmed the above LED lights, and slipped into a parasympathetic state of being. 

He descriptively began our journey through an open meadow and explained how we would reach the first of many forks in the path. He would always give us the option of moving down or towards or up and would give us silence at appropriate times for a few seconds as our thoughts sank in. And then he painted us onto the next section of our journey along waterfalls, woody forest, etc.

At some point, we were hiking along a ridge line and a rather large opening between builders was presented to us. Very comfortable and we casually followed the space between that narrowed into a warm cave like opening. Something like that with my elementary rescripting here. We were then asked to imagine the first animal that came to mind while we calmly stood there in this opening. 

For whatever reason, not of fear based judgement, a fully belly coiled rattlesnake appeared in my third eye. No Rattle, No Protective Strikes, Just A Coiled Happy Reptile. So my spirit animal became a Rattlesnake. My medicine/healing animal is the Great Owl from another class/exercise. My power animal happens to be the mighty BLK Bear. My birthday animal is a vividly colorful butterfly because nobody ever suspects the butterfly. Long Live Bart Simpson 

ECLIPSE:

North America was so LUCKY as we were able to watch the lunar eclipse during the last full moon. Mr Full Moon appeared to be so bright and full as it crested over the Grand Mesa. Within about 45 minutes or so, Mother Earth's shadow slowly slithered up from the bottom left side of the moons surface. 

As the shadow engulfed Mr Moon, an eerie blood red dot hung in the night sky. The star constellations popped as much as possible with the light pollution beaming from the Big City of GJ. My mind always drifts off during these celestial events. What would the moment have been like back in BC or Roman Times or whatever when they witnessed something like that?? A Blood Moon 

DOG ON IT:

What A Classic!! My current read while I am dog/house sitting. Spencer speaks two languages fluently. Dog And Suspense! This is a tale of a DOG that flunked out of K9 School and hooks up with a private eye. Been highly amused throughout the chapters so far and the unique style keeps me from falling asleep around a decent time frame. Sure hope this dog doesn't die in the end. 

CYCLING:

Burning the legs and covering some higher ground. Then, some weeks are working like a yahoo and nearly covering 20 miles / 32km for the week. Talk about your ups and downs. 178miles / 274kms one week and almost nothing the next week. Feel free to leave me with 4 of the 6 lottery numbers as living independently wealthy sounds terrific. And you all know me, would happily donate a healthy amount to Roice Hurst Humane Society. 

Road riding has been exactly the same as it ever was. Talking Heads there for ya. The River Trail is always there and who cares about the headwind both ways. I ride while catching up on phone calls and the flying wildlife is remarkable. Never A Dull Moment 

The single track is just as dusty as ever. The trails are well used by trail runners and MTB Bikers for sure. My favorite by far are the blooming cacti and the Spring Time Life in general. 

The high desert fools us into believing everything will be okey dokee. Hillsides are lush, succulents are going off with color, and the snow melt run off is totally misleading. Rain Dance Please

Overall, my fitness is par at best but The Western Slope is Flippin Gorgeous. I become antsy while working because I want to be submerged in it. Will be posting more photos for sure. Thanx for checking in, have been commenting on your blogs, bat sh*t crazy busy still, and will keep you in the loop when my next radio show is offered up. Big Hugs 

What Will Your Future Self Be Proud Of,

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