Excellent photograph, Kyle ! Everything about it is outstanding. Kim Hetzel.
On Friday, August 9, 2024 at 5:42:37 PM UTC-7 Chris Halasz wrote: > Beautiful photo, and we were just up in the PNW this past week. Trails > were amazing! Didn't bring the bikes, but I could've done my trail running > - all under shaded canopy - in moccasins. I miss my Bleriot! > > On Friday, August 9, 2024 at 9:20:22 AM UTC-7 Kyle Cotchett wrote: > >> Takin a photo break in the shade on these hot PNW summer days. >> >> >> [image: DSC09894.jpg] >> On Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 8:52:57 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> Chris: Yes, I privately emailed you in first response to your request >>> for NM photos. No matter, since I sent a later message publicly. >>> >>> Will have to look for *The Emancipation of the Mind: Radical >>> Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America.* >>> >>> I Googled reviews of the same and read the ones in the NYT and >>> Goodreads. In the first I immediately saw this: >>> >>> >>> >>> *What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery.What actually caused >>> the war, however, is a vastly more difficult idea. Try this explanation on >>> for size: The driving force in American politics in the decades after the >>> American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic >>> oligarchy in the South, built on a foundation of Christian religion and a >>> vision of permanent, God-ordained economic inequality.* >>> >>> True and false: All is true except "built on a foundation of Christian >>> religion." It was not built on Christianity. Southern slave owners >>> distorted Christianity -- that means, heresy -- to justify their belief >>> that blacks were less than fully human. Truly vicious slavery, as in Uncle >>> Tom's cabin, came only with pseudo-Darwinist ideology; it did not come from >>> St. Paul. The reviewer doesn't know his history. >>> >>> While modern philosophers undoubtedly provided doctrinal justification >>> for the flight against slavery, evangelical Christianity and Quakerism and >>> British Methodism were at least as active. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a >>> Calvinist, not a modern German philosopher. And secular abolitionists >>> usually absorbed parts of Christian morality or at least moralism while >>> rejecting the supporting doctrines. >>> >>> So framing the question in terms of revolutionary thinkers versus >>> counterrevolutionary Christians is at very best a very small part of the >>> truth and that small part very distorted; as so many authors, Stewart sees >>> a bit of the truth and jumps on as the whole solution -- the everlasting >>> error of philosophers. >>> >>> One interesting thing (if one can use such an anodyne word of something >>> as evil as the Holocaust) about 19th and 20th century white Southern >>> American racism is its paranoid and malicious character, not shared by >>> Spanish, Portuguese, French, or even British racists; even the apartheidist >>> Boers didn't go so far. It was matched in malice perhaps only by the >>> triumphalist Wilhemine German colonizers, certainly themselves social >>> Darwinists. I'm just old enough to have seen the tail end of Jim Crow in >>> Georgia in the 1960s, just before Maynard Jackson and recall this paranoid >>> quality. But none of this has anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul >>> may have accepted de facto first-century Roman slavery and counseled slaves >>> to bear their lot (but slavery was everywhere in the Biblical Levant, even >>> among the Jews) but he was in no doubt about their full humanity. >>> >>> Patrick Moore, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Universite' Laval, mille neuf cent >>> quatre vingt neuf. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM Chris Halasz <cha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Patrick >>>> >>>> The photos bring memories of New Mexico: We were very close to moving >>>> to ABQ in 2016 or so, and spent a few windless days riding our Bromptons >>>> all about town. The company ended up transferring me elsewhere! >>>> >>>> The Super C trunk sack looks great on the Matthews. Going to look into >>>> one of those for a friend perplexed over trunks and panniers. The wider >>>> tires totally throw off perception of wheel size. >>>> >>>> Going to check to see if the local library has "Great River". Just >>>> finished Matthew Stewart's fascinating "The Emancipation of the Mind: >>>> Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America". >>>> Check your local library. >>>> >>>> (Not sure if I'm the one you referenced offline - never reached my >>>> in(or spam)box.) >>>> >>>> - Chris >>>> >>>> On Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 5:34:30 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ill written. That should have been: "... from before the Indians to >>>>> the Pueblos to the Hispanics fleeing the tyranny of the Mexican colonial >>>>> government to the missions ..." >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:27 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ... 1000+ pages of New Mexico history with the Rio Grande as >>>>>> instrument, from before the Indians* thru the conquista, the friars, the >>>>>> revolt, the reconquista, the Apaches, the Yanks, and modern America. >>>>>> Wonderful book. Amazon has it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> *My brother, close friends with Hopi and Navajo, says that they >>>>>> prefer "Indian." >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:19 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> ... Lastly, also from late May, El Rio Grande in flood -- nice >>>>>> change from 2023 when it almost dried up completely. This shows just the >>>>>> channel West of the towhead; the Eastern channel is as wide. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Patrick Moore >>>>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other >>>>> writing services >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* >>>>> >>>>> *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* >>>>> >>>>> *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/62365846-f00c-46a8-9b48-6dd93e45242cn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/62365846-f00c-46a8-9b48-6dd93e45242cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing >>> services >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* >>> >>> *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* >>> >>> *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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