@MissAdventurous That story pulled on my heart strings
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
Back in the late 1990’s Julia Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree named Luna and she didn’t come down for another 738 days.
From December 1997 to December 1999, she lived in the canopy of a giant 1500 year old redwood tree named Luna. She ended her revolutionary action when an agreement was made with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200 foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.
Once up the tree, she vowed not to come down until she had made a difference. Clinging to her mattress through violent storms, supported with food and necessities by a ground crew, she stayed two years and eight days.
"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born, we were kicked off a precipice, and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it. So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat."
~ Alan Watts
“A lot of nothing places I hadn’t looked twice at for years, they all of a sudden started meanin’ things to me. And I wanted so much to be back there, but you can’t, can you? Cant ever really go back and correct the choices.” -ydkm
‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I apologize’ means the same thing except at funerals. -unknown
"Sometimes, all you need in life is a good cup of coffee." -Unknown, heard from a friend of mine
@stormydaycuddle I literally laughed out loud. Didn't expect that one 😂
The year 1985: Coca-Cola Company introduced "New Coke", the wreck of RMS Titanic was discovered over two miles below the ocean's surface using an unmanned submersible called Argo, Live Aid concerts around the world raised millions to help the starving in Africa and Microsoft Corporation released the first version of Windows. Their very own Power Windows.
We went Back to the Future, spent a saturday morning in detention with The Breakfast Club and joined The Goonies in their quest to discover "One-Eyed" Willy's treasure.
David Lee Roth went Crazy from the Heat, Kate Bush released the Hounds of Love, Marillion came of age with Misplaced Childhood, Mr. Mister welcomed us to the Real World and Sting dreamed of Blue Turtles.
And Rush unleashed their eleventh studio album, the truly stunning Power Windows. Happy 38th Birthday to this Middletown masterpiece.
Released in Canada 38 years ago today on Friday 11th October. It was then released in the USA on Monday 21st October and us patient Europeans had to wait a few more days to get our hands on it. Power Windows was then released in Japan on 21st November.
Thanks to our great chum Joe Pesch for the heads up.