Sunday Shootin' - With A BAng

3/6/2016

In honour of my buddies leaving to join the Army, we spent some time training, shooting, and having a blast. A character that could only be met in the movies or on television, we sent him off with gunpowder and grandeur. May his journeys be enlightening and empowering, and may he return to us safely. It is with a heavy heart that I see him go, for we have trained our bodies and minds alongside one another, and I believe he was an anchor for me during a dark time. His goofy attitude and annoying face will be missed but I hope it is only for a while. When we see him next, may we spend it with brass and crass, not worrying about the future or past but of our deep bond and eternal friendship. The military will have their hands full with this, that's for damn sure. Good luck and safe travels, buddy!

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THE MAD BARRON

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)