Sporting Road

Be thankful a new day has born. The sun will come up tomorrow. Stores are going to be closed on Thanksgiving so that people don't gather during Covid. Maybe everyone will go deer hunting, play a game with family, ready a book, and have a dinner party everyday instead of playing video games, looking at their devices and spending the entire day and night going out shopping. Our local parks have quadrupled in vistors and people are outside more often, you even see kids taking a renewed interest in hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. People are cooking at home a lot more and grocery store bills are way up, as people aren't eating out as much. Now if people didn't spend the rest of their time focused on a screen worrying about the virus and our corrupt government representatives, we wouldn't have such a counter culture to fix as well. Within the turbulent past several years, the idea that a person can be “canceled” — in other words, culturally blocked from having a prominent public platform or career — has risen expotentially. Even Twitter and Facebook can now apparently cancel the President of the United States and keep him from speaking. The news agencies frequently show one side of debates, talking over the Republican representatives that they don't like. The idea of canceling someone coincides with a familiar pattern: A celebrity or other public figure does or says something offensive. A public backlash, often fueled by politically progressive social media, ensues. Then come the calls to cancel the person — that is, to effectively end their career or revoke their cultural cachet, whether through boycotts of their work or disciplinary action from an employer.

My favorite Chatham painting But he was also known for his lithographs, this one being my favorite Stephen Collector, a good friend of Chatam's before he passed, loves photographing in the fog, which was also coincidentally prevalent in a lot of Chatham images Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Russell Chatham, Jim Fergus, Stephen Collector formed a tribe for birds and tarpon in the wake of Hemingway's passing. John Gierach, Archie Best, and Mike Clark sort of did the same thing with dry flies and bamboo rods in wake of Lee Wulff. Tides come and tides go, some bigger than others. But the ones who write and photograph about it leave something behind for us all to enjoy. __________________ Russell Chatham (October 27, 1939 – November 10, 2019) was a contemporary American landscape artist and author who spent most of his career living in Livingston, Montana. He was essentially self-taught and his work eschewed the narrative tendency of much western art and presented landscapes that stand in intimate relationship towards the human figure even in the absence of it. In the early 1980s Chatham began making lithographs and stood as one of the world's foremost practitioners of that craft. In addition to Lithography, Chatham also produced original oil paintings. His oil paintings currently sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and there was a multi-year waiting list for commissions, but according to his dealers, he preferred printing lithographs as the more challenging art form. (Longtime Livingston residents can recall a time when early in his career Chatham traded his canvases for essential services in a barter arrangement.) Despite being a print, Chatham's lithographs have little to do with modern process lithography, which always starts from a photograph and typically only uses 4 colors. His

Our daughter likes to say that Boomers ruined planet earth, but the attached chart should convince you of the truth of why the planet is different now than it was when our grandparents grew up. There are nearly 8 billion people now on planet earth, with over 3800 customs, and 7100 languages. Humans have been on the planet for really only 200,000 years, whereas other species such as horses for some 3,000,000 years. Over 90% of the creatures that have inhabited the earth are now extinct. There have been five ice ages in the earth’s history. We like to talk about change, let’s not be too short sighted on what it is exactly that we are concerned about with change. ---------- And it's not really about drilling either, writes Right vs Left News: "The idea that we are going to eliminate fossil fuels is a pipe dream," Moore said Sunday during an appearance on "The Cats Roundtable" on WABC 770 AM-N.Y. "We're not going to go from 80% fossil fuels down to zero in the next 15 years, or else we will bankrupt our country." Democrats are fighting for renewable energy, but Moore said America can provide the technology to develop and become better and more affordable as we use the resources that have made America energy independent under former President Donald Trump. "We need to use the energy that we have," Moore told host John Catsimatidis. "We have more oil, more gas, and more coal than any other country. We've got 500 years' worth of coal. We have at least 200 years of natural gas. We’re not running out of this stuff." Moore said Biden needs to get with the "program." "Trump used to

I have been fascinated by cults.  The idea that one man knows all of the answers is appealing to me.  Our world is a mess. Old paradigms are breaking down, creating space for new visions. We can let corporations fill those voids, or people can take action. In the early seventies, it was a similar situation. Hundreds of thousands of young people rejected mainstream culture and formed communities to try to create a world they would want to live in. Whether they could sustain themselves or had flawed aspects is not important. The groups' radical idealism and actions to find a better way of living and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human transformed everyone who participated, including communal hippies like Steve Jobs and Stewart Brand. For me, a cult has a charismatic leader who is the point of focus and from whom all relevant ideas, decisions, and rules generate. A community by its nature requires contributions from multiple people and is about strong relationships and a type of egalitarianism. The cult/cult leader mentality (including the cult of personality) feels archaic to me now. But community is everything, and it is stillvvery much alive. Gurus are a funny thing. Any relationship with a teacher should be temporary, as we are each responsible for our own evolution.  Seemingly recognizing this, Tony Robbins doesn't want to be anyone's guru, in fact, his whole approach is to demolish the "guru game." His insight is that deep down we all tend to want someone to tell us what to do -- the "sheep and shepherd" approach. But rather than waiting for someone else to save us, waiting for some Mr. Fix-it, something divine, to put things