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[Michael]

Snorkling in Canada

[stilltraveler]

Michael - coool.

The prior forum was crashed. But the good news is, a friend of mine agreed to shoulder the load for us all here. Take five. He's got it handled. 

[clearsky]

A photo-glimpse of a corner in my favorite bookstore in LA -- The Bodhi Tree. Can you find Ram Dass on the wall? He has a website worth bookmarking: http://ramdass.org

[clearsky]

Snorkling in Canada

Adastra? Arthur? Is that you?

[jane]

Canadian snorkling? Hmmmph. Looks more like a case of Canadian shrinky dinky!

[stilltraveler]

I visited with a family of friends over the holidays - the Flimsys. It's an interesting All-World family; you already saw Long Cat, above, helping us take a break. About them, I want to tell Another New Years Flimsy Photo Story.

Well, physically they bear a strong family resemblance, except for Long Cat, whose from a different mom, part Seminole, part African-American. He's half brother to Clint, who named himself that after he fell in love with the High Plains Drifter series - sometimes he's good, but usually a little bad and ugly; or he thinks he's bad and he thinks that's good. There's brother Shiloh who tends to be shy and maybe depressed, though he denies it - he says, "I'm serious.", "Someone has to think about what's going on in this family and the world." His identical twin brother, Greg, is gregarious and optimistic. Greg is the youngest, by two minutes, and maybe that's why he's kind of the comic of the family. And there's Pops who can play around and try to keep the family together in lightness; but he also has a despondent streak. Maybe, he's feeling the weight of life's accumulated losses, including the disappearance of his exquisitely tall "Seminole Queen", as he liked to call her. Unlike his son Long Cat, who can playfully save the world on his shoulders, Pops can get into a space where he grinds against the burden with the persistence of Sisyphus. Mostly, he keeps it light and does what he can for the family - but sheesh, you can hear the gears shifting. To remember that they are a family of men, one time he got five John Deere tractor caps, removed the logo, and replaced it with Flimsy. He and Greg, and maybe Long Cat think it's funny that it says Flimsy Tractors. Sometimes he likes to get the family to wear the same colors and even clothes. They have similar builds, so it works, except for Long Cat. Clint usually out and out refuses; he's into his own rugged life motif. Shiloh goes along, but appears to hang back with a little family embarrassment; it's hard to tell because sometimes his serious introversion looks more like anger. That's the way it was this visit - some going along, some, not quite.

Well, I just though I'd share some photos of these interesting people with you - sort of in the rough story form in which our visit took place, on this beautiful earth of ours.

[stilltraveler]

Clint being Clint, proud of his rugged Jeep.

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Shiloh trying to play with the gang.

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Greg - "It's all good!"

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Graceful Long Cat doesn't mind going out on a limb.

[stilltraveler]

Pop likes to climb, too, but he's more of a scrambler than a stealther.

[stilltraveler]

Shiloh hunkered down to work through something, it seems.

[stilltraveler]

Long Cat's at home where he is - he does have an affinity for trees.

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Greg's diggin it, too!

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Pop's trying to do what he thinks is right, again