Red Mosquito

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

dad wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

dad wrote:The place is called Bistrot Instinct, and I can’t recommend it enough.

ill go

I'm putting a list of places (coffee, pastries, restaurants, bars) together and will post them in the Paris thread when I'm done. It's not a big list, but they were the highlights of our stay.

Strat wrote:My sisters family are going to Punta Cana spring of 2025. We're hoping to tag along for that little getaway but the wife reminds me we still have to figure out our honeymoon so ....

IF we're lucky we can do both!

Strat wrote:My sisters family are going to Punta Cana spring of 2025. We're hoping to tag along for that little getaway but the wife reminds me we still have to figure out our honeymoon so ....

IF we're lucky we can do both!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Strat wrote:My sisters family are going to Punta Cana spring of 2025. We're hoping to tag along for that little getaway but the wife reminds me we still have to figure out our honeymoon so ....

IF we're lucky we can do both!

You didn't honeymoon? What the hell did our wedding gift go towards?!

spike wrote:The kid was whining for a snack before takeoff, but the attendant told me we’d have to wait as it was all packed away.

A few minutes later, they came to thank my wife for being the airline’s highest club tier and asked if she needed anything. A bag of chips and cookie were rushed out for the kid.

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:The kid was whining for a snack before takeoff, but the attendant told me we’d have to wait as it was all packed away.

A few minutes later, they came to thank my wife for being the airline’s highest club tier and asked if she needed anything. A bag of chips and cookie were rushed out for the kid.

its a fun club to be in, isn't it?

96583UP wrote:

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:The kid was whining for a snack before takeoff, but the attendant told me we’d have to wait as it was all packed away.

A few minutes later, they came to thank my wife for being the airline’s highest club tier and asked if she needed anything. A bag of chips and cookie were rushed out for the kid.

its a fun club to be in, isn't it?

holy cow that's hilarious

money makes humans an awful species

spike wrote:My wife had to fly to Houston for a one day internal meeting. Her flight last night was delayed leaving for weather, then they shut O'Hare down for weather on the other end, so they had to temp land in Madison, WI and refuel. She walked in the door around 2am.

If only we had the technology to somehow do such meetings remotely.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:My wife had to fly to Houston for a one day internal meeting. Her flight last night was delayed leaving for weather, then they shut O'Hare down for weather on the other end, so they had to temp land in Madison, WI and refuel. She walked in the door around 2am.

If only we had the technology to somehow do such meetings remotely.

My wife had to travel to middle of nowhere, Texas a couple of weeks ago. It was 2 hours outside Austin, While driving from Austin in the rental car, traffic stopped due to a crazy hailstorm and tornados. She called me crying because she couldn't get anywhere safe. She made it safely, and the next day, the course she was teaching was attended primarily by Zoom participants. :/

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:Any travel pants recommendations. I'm a jeans guy but need some light type multi-purpose pants that wouldn't be out of place at a restaurant or hiking the Dolomites. Ideally non-creasy so no ironing required.

Anyone have any thoughts?

wish I had seen these sooner. the quickest delivery date is after we leave. ah well...

I do believe I will order some of these for our trip!

wease wrote:

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:Any travel pants recommendations. I'm a jeans guy but need some light type multi-purpose pants that wouldn't be out of place at a restaurant or hiking the Dolomites. Ideally non-creasy so no ironing required.

Anyone have any thoughts?

wish I had seen these sooner. the quickest delivery date is after we leave. ah well...

I do believe I will order some of these for our trip!

Anyone know what brand these are?

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:Any travel pants recommendations. I'm a jeans guy but need some light type multi-purpose pants that wouldn't be out of place at a restaurant or hiking the Dolomites. Ideally non-creasy so no ironing required.

Anyone have any thoughts?

wish I had seen these sooner. the quickest delivery date is after we leave. ah well...

I do believe I will order some of these for our trip!

Anyone know what brand these are?

If you go to his profile link then Amazon Dupe Finds, direct Amazon links in there.

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