“The medium is the message” Marshall McLuhan
Part of the beauty of contributing to a blog like The Burning Platform is the freedom to do what you want. Because Jim is a supporter of free speech there is not only a wide variety of opinions, positions, and personalities here but a wide variety of content as well. From Stucky’s pictorial essays to Hardscrabble’s reflections to Jim’s hard-hitting economic analysis there is something here for everyone.
So in the spirit of doing your own thing I’ve decided to pull an “Uncola” and try something different. I’m not sure how it will turn out and it is a bit of a long term project but I’m going to give it a whirl anyways. A blog is an opportunity to experiment with messages in different mediums. So the idea is simple, to combine my passion with my philosophy in video.
Also, for those STM’s who have been following my City of the Dead series, there is more coming on that front as well. The last few weeks have been extremely busy, filled with work, travel, colds, and kid stuff so I am behind on all of my extracurricular projects as a result. The next few weeks will finally afford me the time to catch up on some TBP extras.
Finally, thanks to Jim for the ‘platform’ for us creative types and thanks to everyone who reads, comments and supports what we do. It makes it all worthwhile.
And for those of you who are not the least bit interested in any of it, well, the same to you. 🙂
Back in the early 80’s my uncle Jim would bring us up to Wolf Point,MT. The reservation. He is native . I remember my first horse back ride with my aunt Bobby on the ranch. I remember sneaking into Canada at nite, easy pickens. I remember fishing the Missouri river. I still can’t ice skate worth a shit, but I remember Montana and Canada. Good times. Peaceful days and nites and I still have those walking blues.
Your uncle is Assiniboine? I had an online pal who is Assiniboine, a trucker who runs for a Canadian outfit. Never got up to see him, but he lived in MT last I talked to him. Ft. Peck rez is a pretty big one, I heard, but never been there.
Unredeemable , what is the point of your point ??? Sounds like a warning .Last time I was hunting a hog killed one of our dogs. Haven’t been back as of lately.
Well at least you’re doing something useful . Say hello to Tinker Bell if you see him .I believe he still lives in Canada.
Very cool, FM! I would also like to thank Admin for this forum. For me, TBP is like a non-alcoholic online bar (for me in the last year at least), except with very intelligent people.
It’s like a bunch of regulars who get together most days in a digital airport lounge where people from all around the world fly in and a few even stick around for a while. For me, it is a nice venue to take a break from a busy schedule, maybe catch up on some news, look at some pictorial views, listen to some music or let the mind wander.
Today, however, the wife and I just took a Sunday walk through some nearby woods. Although not as beautiful this time of year as the Canadian vistas in the above video, it is a peaceful place to walk remote trails where only the beavers remain “busy”:
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Uncola,
I was back home in Saskatchewan last week on a whirlwind trip for my kid for a Western Canadian competition (his relay team took a bronze – pretty good) – anyways it was pretty spring-like for that time of year with the grass brown but visible and there is water running in the ditches and I remember as a kid being quite content to find beauty and adventure in such a simple place as a ditch filled with running water and lined by tall, brown grass and reddish willows and I begin to think no matter where you are there is beauty in the natural world, all of it to be appreciated in its own context.
Today we were up on one of the local mountains in the afternoon. The sky was grey and the landscape brown, much like your picture except at the lower elevations where the trees are just beginning to bud. Little bright, green chutes in a sea of grey and brown. Each spring I see it happen here it reminds me of the ditch in front of our acreage where I had hundreds of adventures in far away lands right outside my front door.
Anyways, thanks for the pic.
You’re going to be posting your new project here, correct? I look forward to it.
Yep.
Hell ,I thought I was talking to Undesirable now I realize it’s Francis Marion.Tells some more about your hunting trips with your Injun friend.
If you do run into Tinker Bell tell him I forgive him .I now know he has psychological problems compounding his spiritual problems.He reminds me of some of the Jews I have met on the Internet. Thing is I really like some of those Jews. Strange world , small world.
Go figure.
“At this point in history,we have about reached the summit of our knowledge of the techniques of riflecraft- the art of the rifle. Fewer and fewer people are in a position to understand this art, due to the urbanization of the world and the increasing emasculation of mankind.”- Jeff Cooper, The Art Of The Rifle.
“Pick up a rifle-a really good rifle-and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and -most significantly-from a subject to a citizen”-Jeff Cooper, The Art Of The Rifle
Barney,
Great quotes. I’ve never read Cooper but he will now be on my next batch of ‘must reads’.
I personally learned ‘riflecraft’ in cadets and from my dad when I was just a kid.
For me, shooting is a lot like throwing a baseball. It is part instinct, part skill, part awareness of your elements and surroundings and part knowing yourself and your limits. A good lesson for most things in life, really. IMHO, it’s something all men should know.