13: Hot Seat
1. At last week’s opening reception for my potter son Josh’s and photographer Rob Aberg’s exhibition in Madison County, I met a man named Snake Hawk and woman who hiked the AT twice.
2. The hiker’s name is Sarah Jones Decker and she wrote two books about hiking, one called The Appalachian Trail: Backcountry Shelters, Lean-Tos, and Huts and the other called The Ridges of Madison County.
3. When I got home I googled “Ridges of Madison County NC” to learn more about her books but the only thing that came up was “Bridges of Madison County” and the question “Did you mean: The Bridges of Madison County?”
4. Even my computer spell check wanted to change ridges to bridges.
5. I call the above Rob Amberg photo that was part of the exhibit “Jump Your Way to Heaven.”
6. Snake Hawk’s official name is Irvin Via and his father was born in 1890… in Floyd County! Via is a popular county name.
7. Smoke or Toke?
8. “There were several standard smoke signals: one puff for ‘Attention’; two for ‘All is well’, and three for ‘danger, trouble, need help! ‘ These would be conveyed by a fire’s placement: halfway up the hill meant no problem, the top meant danger.” From A Brief History of Smoke Signals.
9. This Liontracks reggae musician (who at one point pulled off his hat and revealed his to-the-floor dreadlocks) made a connection with a fan who remained up at the front stage for both sets, called him his lighthouse. “Everybody needs a lighthouse.”- More From Let Your Hair Down with Liontracks HERE.
10. I love THIS sound.
11. I love the food at Zadie’s Café at the Old Marshall Jail.
12. Text to a friend: I’ve been back-to-back busy and now I’m flat on my back.
13. “A million zeroes joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but the fatally shortsighted habit of our age is to think only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman.” Carl Jung ____________Thirteen Thursday
October 6th, 2022 2:52 pm
Great Jung quote there at the end. Nice shot of you, too.
October 8th, 2022 1:58 am
A nice thirteen, Colleen. I like your quote from Jung and number 5 both in a tie for favorite.
Thirteen is too many for me to write, I write a Friday three for Tom instead generally with a Reflection thrown in for James and a Lagniapee for my friends and relaives who don’t write blogs but want to keep track of me. It’s at
http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com. 🙂
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October 8th, 2022 9:04 am
Hi Jim, I don’t think I have 13 but once I get going I do…It’s a practice and a way to tie up loose ends, explore interests and document/journal for my writers filing cabinet (this blog).
October 8th, 2022 10:11 pm
zero times any number equals zero. I love that concept. It’s humbling. I also love the sound of the rotary phone. I liked dialing the phone just to hear and watch the dial spin. Ha, cheap thrills for a kid.
Curious me googled Ridges of Madison County. Found it by adding the author’s name. Cheap thrills for me, lol.
October 9th, 2022 10:56 pm
I enjoyed this so very much. It sounds like you’ve been having a great time. Speaking of sounds, there is a rather high possibility that I spent way too much time listening to the sound you love, lol!
October 11th, 2022 4:29 pm
Thanks for telling us about Sarah. I found both her books on Goodreads and added them to my TBR.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59693743-the-ridges-of-madison-county-nc?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=spXacFiyr9&rank=2