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| Aerial view of Mount Everest and surrounding landscape (Source) |
Oh yeah, full screen for best results. 😉
If you're not reading Bayou Renaissance Man daily, you should start.
Today's poem -
Some say they can recall a thousand years
Some say they have already visited the next thousand years
On a windy day
I am waiting for a bus
I rather like that.
Daily visit is here first then it's off to Peter, after that it's a toss-up between Old NFO and SNAFU, then there are others........Good choice on the flying vid, ya....agree on the full-screen. Makes the Rockies look like anthills.
ReplyDeleteVery impressed I was!
DeleteHeh. It's The Whiteboard, Chant, Old NFO, Borepatch/Peter Grant then Peter Grant/Borepatch, then Instapundit, then Knuckledraggin, maybe Vox Populi (to see what the conspiracy people are conspiring about.) Sarah Hoyt for her insightful essays, then do Diplomad, Daily Timewaster, and then I get serious...
DeleteFunny, eventually I'll get to a news site like Drudge, but by then I'll have heard all the news and read about all sides of the issues before I start getting slanted reporting...
Similar to the quotidian exercise performed by Your Humble Scribe.
DeleteHey Old AFSarge;
ReplyDeleteAnd there I go thinking of Phil Collins, from your title LOL
I guess that's my goal this week, make you think one way, then go the other. 😁
DeleteHhmm, what will tomorrow's post title be? Will it be a fake or will it be twhat MrG is thinking? We shall see, we shall see. 😉
Oh the travails of a blogger, what to do, what to do?
ReplyDeleteThis week's posts are akin to a trickle charger, just enough to keep the audience alive. Hopefully. 😎
DeleteNice trip around the mountains, I felt a little queezy in full screen. Then pops-up three guys sitting on the snow! Go figure.
ReplyDeleteRE: Poem I feel that way sometimes. I like it. Is that Korean-style poetry? Similar to the haiku style of you know where?
The author is Korean, he does longer poems and these short, haiku-like ones as well. Stumbled upon him quite by accident. He's from Kunsan, where I lived for a couple of years (in the city proper, not just the base, that was almost four years).
DeleteI feel that way at times too, we think alike on some things.
As all the smart fallen apes have commented for at least hundreds of thousands of years, we overlook the present at our very grave peril. The past and future are interesting and important, but life is now.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of Colonel Robert Scott's description of flying over Everest in a P-43(!!!) while in the process of sniveling his way into combat with General Chenault's outfit. "God is My Co-Pilot" is long out of print but imo worth the price of admission for those who haven't read it. Movie's not bad, but it's a movie.
These little blippy posts are great, Sarge. :)
That IS an excellent book.
DeleteAs to the here and now, it's where we live, we ignore it at our peril. (The tiger that might eat you next week could be behind you right now...)
I'm having an almost Zen-like fun with these wee posts.
An advantage of short posts is that sometimes there’s more time to read other blogs.
ReplyDeleteI'm here for you Skip. 😉
DeletePlenty going on in the world to comment on, but not today. Maybe not tomorrow either.
ReplyDeleteYes, stunning video. Out there in places so remote, considering the tangled web of human events, the phrase "It don't mean nuthin'" comes to mind.
Here's a thought--Were it possible to duplicate standing on the summit of Everest in the middle of Europe during WWII, you would have been looking DOWN on the American bomber stream.
Yes, the mountain is that high. Pretty awesome when you think about it.
DeleteYeah, heights, nooooo....
ReplyDeleteSome things should just remain... hard to do. They've turned Everest into an office style adventure. No longer is it difficult to do, as they'll get some Sherpa to carry most of your load for you, cook for you, wake you up, tuck you in, get oxygen.
Bah.
As to the poem, much more readable than Maya Angelou. And his bitterness shows through.
Now, if I wrote the poem, the line after "I am waiting for a bus" would read, "Then it starts raining, and an hour later someone tells me they switched the routes, again."
Why? Because that's the way life works. That silver lining? It's heavy when it hits you.
Other than that, great post. One doesn't have to write a novelette to do good.
Hope work is staying fun.
Work remains a joy, especially the folks I work with.
DeleteNow if only there were beer, like we had in NATO.
Not a big lover of poetry, but I am of aviation vids. That was epic, and John Williams made it all the better.
ReplyDeleteYup, love the aviation vids.
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