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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till, ringing, singing [...] Copyright © 1999, by Kent Peterson. Republished without permission, but it’s too good a story not to share. It’s been years now, but I’ll never forget that Christmas… The days had grown short, the snow had begun to fall and my friends and I were all gathered around old man Petersen’s bike shop in the [...] Went up to Solitude yesterday with a friend who has a season pass, after the beginnings of a storm came through and dropped 2-3 inches of new snow. When we got up there, he saw the conditions, and let me borrow his pass to go do a couple of runs to see how I liked [...] For a number of years, I had a cat named Silca, a beautiful tabby with the biggest green eyes. She was a problem-child though: she couldn’t get along with the other cats; she attacked my wife often, out of nowhere; she peed all over the house. We tried everything, including anti-anxiety meds, and keeping her [...] “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats” — Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Physician, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” — Colette (1873-1954), French author. “If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain [...] “When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.” “I don’t master the mountain. I master speed.” — Bode Miller (b. 1977), American Olympic & World Champion skier Have you ever sat in a chairlift at about 10,000 feet, and scribbled in a Moleskine? That’s part of how I spent my afternoon today, and I gotta tell you, it’s pretty fucking amazing. Today was a glorious day for skiing. No, it wasn’t a fresh powder day; we haven’t had any new snow since [...] So we had our first really major winter storm last night. It started rolling in mid-afternoon … by the time I left work about 5:00, there was about an inch of snow on the ground, but it was falling hard. People forget how to drive when it’s snowing. Lots of accidents out on the road, [...] I’m not giving any more money to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and I don’t think anyone else should either. This has nothing to do with my belief that Lance Armstrong is a doper, as evidenced by his “positive” retroactive EPO test on one of his remaining urine samples from 1999, his “positive” test for cortisone [...] “The true skier does not follow where others lead. He is not confined to a piste. He is an artist who creates a pattern of lovely lines from virgin and uncorrupted snow. What marble is to the sculptor, so are the latent harmonies of ridge and hollow, powder, and sun-softened crust to the true skier. [...] |
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