Carrot's blog

So, besides being emotionally and physically satisfying, my ninety-mile bikeride was a short tour of the landbase I grew up on.

So I've never been one for athletics...but this past year I've been on my bike a whole lot, so I thought this summer I'd take a long bike-ride just to see how far I could push myself.

So my sister and I had a very serious conversation the other day about how hypocritical it is for me to critisize the way 99.9% of the population lives, while I live in this little bubble of radicial idealism which makes it easy to live the way I believe in.

So Derrick Jensen, one of my favorite writers, poses the question: What does the landbase you live on want to be like in a 1,000 years, and what can you do to help it achieve that? 1,000 years is apprioximately 40 generations away from us, so Derrick challenges us to think way into the future...even farther then the Iroquis Nation, which challenges it's people to think seven generations ahead.

So I'm spending some time in Upstate New York with family and friends...short of a culture-shocky experience after being in Portland for over a year...for many reasons.

So I'm reading Volume II of Derrick Jensen's Endgame at the moment; unfortunately the Blackrose Anarchist Library had only volume II on the shelf when I went to check out books for my New York vacation, so I'm reading II before I read I.

So my sister Eileen took me on a whitewater rafting trip almost as soon as I got to Upstate New York for the month of July....we drove up to the Adirondack Mnts to go whitewater rafting on the Hudson River.

Tonight I picked some feral cherries in the yard of an abandoned house, while fireworks where being set off all around me by drunken neihbors. I made up a little spritual for the cherries, which goes like this:

Thank you lord for the rain that makes the cherries round!
Oh lord, bring the cherries down!
Thank you lord for the sun that makes the cherries round!