Friday, February 1, 2013

"Curiouser & Curiouser"



I find the human race to be a curious bunch.  We seem to have an irresistible urge to communicate with each other, even to the extent that we reach out to people who we don’t even know, and conversely who will never know who we are.

We carve our initials into the bark of trees so someone we don’t know and will never know, will see them and know we were there even though they will never know who we are, or why we were there.

We write notes, seal them in bottles, and cast them adrift into the ocean with the faint hope that someone we don’t know will find it, but they will more than likely never know who we are.

We paint obnoxious graffiti on walls and bridges in a desperate attempt to let people we have never met know that we were there, even though those same people don’t and may never know us, but will think our message and communication techniques are disgusting.

We place flowers, teddy bears,  ribbons, and all sorts of other mementos at memorial sights so that people, we don’t know, will know that we were there and that we cared.

Today I found another novel way that people are attempting to communicate with others that they don’t know.  It’s called “Letter Boxing”.  I was hiking down a hill off the beaten path when, by chance, I found this small box hidden under a Yucca plant.  In the box I discovered a rubber stamp, a small blank notebook, and a type written instruction sheet.  The idea is to carry your own rubber stamp, ink pad, and note book.  You stamp your stamp into the book in the “Letter Box” and stamp their stamp into your own notebook.  Once this is done you put it all back the way you found it…and move on.  I am not sure what the specific objective behind all this is, but again we seem to want to let someone we don’t know be aware that we were there.  “Curiouser and curiouser”.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Not Sure It'll Start


I've been thinking about a new truck lately.  I think I found the one I want.  

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Sweet Vacation Sweets


Another glass of wine and some cheese cake please,
Oh you’d better make it two.

And pour on some chocolate nice and thick,
and add a little whipped cream too.

This vacation was too darn short,
I hardly had time to sit.

When I get home with my pants agape,
and my truck tires squatting a bit.

I’ll convince my friends…and even myself…
that the Devil made me do it.