Dick's Blog
Good News! Published my third memoir with Amazon, "Hiking Out Again", with all new short stories and reflections. This completes a trilogy with my first two memoirs, "Hiking Out" and "Inside and Outside". All my books are available as e-books and paperbacks. Enjoy!
MY LIFE GOALS
Short Term: Surviving the next six months.
Long Term: Living in a kinder world for a dozen or more years.
What’s your short and long term goals? Pray for a nicer world for all.
First Hike with my Newly Fused Spinal L4 L5 Vertebrae, and Last Hike on My Soon to be Replaced Right Knee Joint. Adirondack Park Boreas River Old Lester Flow Dam Site, My Tree Hugging Son
Liberated
Halleluiah. After 13 weeks, I have been liberated from my back brace. The fusion of two vertebrae is complete. Now comes the task of getting my core strength and muscle tone back after so much inactivity. I feel liberated. Finally, it’s time to burn my B-R-A-c-e. Next comes replacing my right knee joint. What we do to keep hiking, which I intend to do this weekend.
Just Thinking
Just thinking of how one’s worldview changes with maturity and age.
It has been proposed that an effective border wall should have sharp flesh tearing spikes on top. In 1943, I remember thinking that the perfect weapon to end the Second World War would be a bomb with sharp spikes sticking out of it, the worldview of a five-year old.