tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415946761607993140.post2933492210102493993..comments2024-03-17T20:56:14.108-07:00Comments on jwm's world famous blog: Turning the Dials Back Down to FourJWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415946761607993140.post-26829499890426292272009-03-12T04:10:00.000-07:002009-03-12T04:10:00.000-07:00Easy enough to say in retrospect (or as an onlooke...Easy enough to say in retrospect (or as an onlooker) that the decision to turn the Dial back from 11 to 4 was a good, even 'sensible' one -- but what strikes me is how often that decision is <I>not</I> made, and peeps just "live the stress" and suffer the consequences. <BR/><BR/>We all get tangled up in events at various points in our lives, but the old "vote with yer feet" thingy seems to escape people as an early-on option.<BR/><BR/>Don't Buddhists claim we're all run by either 1-greed (moving toward) or 2-aversion (moving away-from) or 3-confusion -- or <I>all three?</I> Number 2, <I>aversion,</I> is active in me, so I've never had a problem leaving a scene where it got "too heated." This could become "running away" if carried too far, but in some cases -- or say, in my case -- with booze and drugs and smarmy people, I just decided to leave.<BR/><BR/>There's something healing about being in your "chosen spot," which in your case was that un-metered parking space above an overlooked beach.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415946761607993140.post-35235999375306343372009-03-11T20:42:00.000-07:002009-03-11T20:42:00.000-07:00I know 27 years is quite a while, but it is amazin...I know 27 years is quite a while, but it is amazing to me how much some parts of the country change so quickly. I was in California only once, in '78, and it seemed extremely developed to me. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I lived north of Dallas in the late '80's, early '90's, and parts of the country between Dallas and Denton were still fairly rural. When I was back through there recently, it was unrecognizable. <BR/><BR/>For example, there used to be a little place called Frisco north of Dallas between 35 and 75, off 121. It was a modest place when I was there. Now they have their own Double AA ball team. <BR/><BR/>Too, the picture of Huntington is interesting. A place does not have to "pristine" to be real. That's something that's often overlooked.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com