thanks for all the photo love - been havin fun with the camera again and the bicycle always comes through as a good muse. I have been posting more photos over here <https://www.crawdadcollective.com/ride_reports/bicycle_pervert/bicycle_pervert.html> if you're interested.
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:51 PM JSF <joshuafing...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 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-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8fca8714-e506-41de-84d4-b30e48e5d0den%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8fca8714-e506-41de-84d4-b30e48e5d0den%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kyle V. 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