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hello friends,
today i spent about 6 1/2 hours walking around petroglyph national monument, pretty crazy place. i saw alot of old people who are now "doing what they've always wanted to do" , and touring the country. so i guess at the end of the day i am saving myself some time by doing stuff i would be doing when i'm 65 or something. i think that i sort of had a moment of zen when one of the ladies said "there is no way jim could have made this with his bad knee and all", and it sort of sucks to think that if i don't take care of myself i will probably be in the same boat as that poor guy. hopefully that won't be the case, and hopefully with the wonders of modern medicine i will be able to replace my knee pretty easily. who knows, thats many moons from now.
i think my favorite part of the petroglyphs was the one with a man, a woman and a child...and its like. wow thats from 500 years ago and some dude decided they wanted to carve a picture of the family on there, and now those people have a permanent place where even though nobody can know exactly who they were, people will be remembering them for a while. it makes me think about what mark i am leaving on the world...hopefully it won't be an anonymous one, although i guess if you think about who is remembered from 500 years ago...the list is pretty limited. so i guess all anyone can hope for is a cliff drawing of themselves.
being in the desert has reminded me that not everyone stays out during the day. the animals are pretty smart to have evolved in such a way that they don't have to deal w/ the sun. too bad that humans didn't develop super night vision eyes. although i guess i prefer floodlights. i think that as technology gets more and more advanced the idea of the "business day" is going to being to shift drastically, and it already has...if you watch the stokc market all sorts of activity happens beyond the trading bell closing...but i honestly think that with the way that commerce is developing, the ability to react 24 hours a day is going to increase drastically, along with the demand.
the first 3 hours i was out today i didn't evne notice time go by....time is such a frustrating concept because everything seems to be limited by it, and while i cancertainly recognize the value of having a universal time system that all people can coordinate activites to, i think there is something lost in the way that we structure our days/calendar in such a linear fashion as if the past doesn't repeat itself. in the send i think that time is pretty useful for serving the purpose of a wage designator. i think that using time as the meter leads to alot of unproductive people while they are at work, since instead of being compensated in return for their specific services, employees only have the obligation to "be" at work for the alotted time so they can collect their paycheck.
i wonder what the native people used for pillows...maybe some grass or something? i layed down under a rock today and i think it would provide a pretty effective sleeping spot...
why does the butterfly seem to have no direction?
i wonder if the absense of sound makes a person think less or more. it would seem to me that a clear head is good for thought, although sounds would seemingly spark thought on the part of the person who hears them.
told a veteran "thanks for your service" today, and i then got to listen to alot of things about his time during WW2, and then about his brother in the spanish american civil war who was a coal shoveler and had to swim 4 miles when his boat sank....its so crazy how many stories like that exist but nobody gets to hear them because they just don't ask....
anyways, this weekend has alot of things up in the air, i think i am going to be out camping for a few days, so if i don't update don't be upset.
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