---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : 7Ray writes: it made me wonder how far from something do you need to be to feel safe. Likewise years ago in reading the International Herald Tribune it sounded like all Western Civilization was going to collapse with the murder and mayhem by the Red Brigade in Italy. After an ATR rounding course with Maharishi in Switzerland I traveled down to Rome and looked around. Life was going on as normal and when I asked Italians what was going on they responded that it was just some students over by the university section. Made me wonder much more about the business of news making. -Buck News is not to be trusted. When there is a plane crash then suddenly it seems like there are planes crashing everywhere because all that is reported on is near crashes or real crashes or smells of burning wires in cockpits and we are all supposed to be terrified to fly. Then, if there is some event like the missing Malaysian airline literally millions and millions of dollars are spent on trying to find the sucker while simultaneously we are barraged with non-stop conjecture about what happened to it. (It crashed into water and all aboard are dead. I could have told you that in one minute for free.) News is spam half of the time and the other half it is exaggerated and designed to create fear and doubt and anger. I had some business late this afternoon in north St. Louis, in the general area of Ferguson. Voyeur that I am, I decided to drive back taking the thoroughfare where all the protests were occurring. Turns out the street was closed off by police, so I took a detour, not knowing where I was going to come out. I ended up coming out exactly at ground zero. There was the burnt out Quik Trip right in front of me, and the the beauty supply store that was looted. There were probably 500 protesters marching down the street, and about 50 reporters. There was no police presence at all where the protesters were marching. They were all on the periphery. A curfew goes into effect tonight at 12. Word is, that it won't be able to be enforced. On a philosophical note, it made me wonder how far from something do you need to be to feel safe. I would say the level of tension in the whole area here is elevated. Everyone is a little on edge, but there are no problems outside the area where the protests are taking place. But, in a sense, right down the "road" is Syria, is the Gaza Strip, is Ukraine, is Africa. I guess things can be seen as closer than you think, or farther away than you think. Or something like that. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : As I was pulling out, to go to Bidwell Park this morning, 7:30-ish, a guy runs by, he's about 6'5, all muscle, deep tan, floating down the sidewalk, but fast, like an antelope, with blond dreads halfway down his back. That was different. Then off to the park, 1800 acres, with lots of back country - I decide to walk the full circuit, nine or ten miles-ish, about a three hour round-trip - starting up a ridge, above a canyon, a steep and rough trail, climbing for awhile, then back down to the park trail that skirts the creek, at first a hundred feet below the trail, then eventually level with it, and back to the car. As I hike deeper in, I bury myself in the wilderness, and the strengthening silence and heat - all encompassing. Walking for miles, into the silence, hearing my footsteps, my breathing, sweating, the strike of my hiking stick, an occasional bird chirp. Not much dirt trail, most is exposed volcanic rock, and basalt. Huge rock formations above the canyon, so old, and still here. The entire landscape is rocky, dry, ancient, and hot, and I love it. After awhile my one water bottle runs out, and I am trudging back, thirsty, and even then, getting into it. When I am almost done, a woman comes by with two dogs, a lab, and what looks like a small pony from a distance - short reddish fur, and a back that could easily carry a saddle. I nodded to her, smiled, and said, "big dog", as I walked by.
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