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NOW WINTER NIGHTS ENLARGE

Now winter nights enlarge          This number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge          Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze          And cups o’erflow with wine, Let well-tuned words amaze          With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights          Shall wait on honey love While youthful [...]

2009 Ride #47

View Ascent activity on 18-Oct-09 at 12:31PM in a larger map

First time on the bike in 3 weeks … my Saturdays have been busy with the UTCX series, and the past couple of Sundays were either bad weather or otherwise booked (such as a trip to the zoo last weekend). I could tell that [...]

Poetry Friday

THE SEPARATE ROSE: I  

Today is that day, the day that carried a desperate light that since has died. Don’t let the squatters know: let’s keep it all between us, day, between your bell and my secret.

Today is dead winter in the forgotten land that comes to visit me, with a cross on [...]

Poetry Friday

NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF

At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind.

He knew that he heard it, A bird’s cry at daylight or before, In the early March wind

The sun was rising at six, No [...]

Apparel for short, chubby skiers?

Why is it that ski apparel manufacturers seem to think that people fit one particular body type? Seems like all the ski apparel manufacturers think that if you have a 37″ waist, you also have a 35″ inseam … I’m 5’9″, not 6’3″. And if not that, then the manufacturers think that the wearers are [...]

The white stuff …

The next book on my reading list: The Snow Tourist, by British author and journalist Charlie English.

Snow job | The white stuff | The Economist From The Economist print edition

“TO SKI, however well or poorly, is a reminder—whatever one may for a long time have suspected—that one is alive, and that living is [...]

CX to Cross Country

Flyer picked up at the Last Call / Utah Cyclocross Series Awards Party tonight:

‘Cross to Cross Country Skate ski clinic for ‘cross racers

Just like cyclocross, cross country skiing is a technical sport. Come learn—or brush up on—the skills and technique that make it more fun … and possible to come out of winter [...]

Poetry Friday

THE DARKLING THRUSH

I leant upon a coppice gate      When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate      The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky      Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh      Had sought their household fires.

The land’s sharp features seemed to be      The Century’s [...]

Renewal of faith

It’s never been a huge secret that I’m not the biggest fan of this time of year.

No, not because it’s winter, but because it’s Christmas-time … the mass commercialization of the season has really started to get to me, even more so than usual.

Christmas is about being with people, not about buying [...]

Poetry Friday

SUMMITS

Mountains bloom in spring they shine in summer they burn in autumn but they belong to winter every day we travel farther and at evening we come to the same country mountains are waiting but is it for us all day the night was shining through them and many of the birds were theirs

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