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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"] draft = false +++
I am listening to Jack Kerouac's On the Road - Wikipedia. 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/