Great photos! Would love to add some, but I'm still in the bottleneck.
On Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 12:40:14 PM UTC-7 ted...@gmail.com wrote: > The Midwest says “hello” to the views of the water. > > [image: image0.jpeg] > Ted > > On Aug 10, 2024, at 10:49 AM, Kim H. <krhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I went on a short bike ride this past week on a hot afternoon only to find > myself resting on a rock in the shade near a bicycle trail with my Clem > nearby. I took this picture whilst I was sitting down. > > The pink nail polish I added to the outer parts of the front derailleur is > for helping me see if the chain is centered. > > Kim Hetzel. > > <20240807_133254.jpg> > > > > > On Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 7:18:41 AM UTC-7 Kim H. wrote: > >> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/cWGueBXBoCY/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/28b69620-64ce-4644-a20b-e9e6bbdbaa96n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/28b69620-64ce-4644-a20b-e9e6bbdbaa96n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > <20240807_133254.jpg> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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