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title = "Life! Carpe diem! Carpe viam! Carpe vitam!"
author = ["George M Jones"]
publishDate = 2022-04-08T00:00:00-04:00
lastmod = 2022-04-08T07:29:21-04:00
tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
categories = ["blog"]
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I am listening to Jack Kerouac's [On the Road - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FRoad).  What a
rant!  What a
stream-of-consciousness-grab-life-by-the-horns-drink-until-it-kills-you
peaan to not missing a single moment or experience in life !

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A lot of what happened in the 60s starts, I won't say to make sense, but
to have a context.... musically there was Route 66, Tangled Up In Blue, All Come
To Look For America, Me And You And A Dog Named Boo, There's A Killer On
The Road .... and to some extent Woodstock (what happens 10 years later
when thousands of people try to live the carefee life spontaneously together
on a farm in upstate NY without proper infrastructure) and as an echo people
following the dead on tour .... Wow, man !

Keruac's and friends lifestyle choices were, let's just say different
than my own, but man did he grab the bull (life) by the horns.

In my own tame way I get out and play where there are bears, rattle snakes
thunderstorms, chances to discuss 19th century philosophical movements
with a rap-loving kid from the Bronx out for a hike and a meet a guy from
Mexico City hiking the Appalachian trail because his grandfather read
Thoreau in Spanish ... <https://outdoorfoo.wordpress.com/>

To life !

\#23 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, <https://100daystooffload.com/>