Kinesthetic Learning.

I learned a new word...

Kineshteic learning. As explained by wiki... Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration. It is also referred to as tactile learning. People with a kinaesthetic learning style are also commonly known as do-ers.

Having a chat with someone who fits into the same category as I do, he had this to say about us.

"yea--school doesn't work for us very well--i was considered a discipline problem because i couldn't sit--i had to move--i'm still the same way--i think by exercising, walking, pacing, yoga etc

i probably understand why you do what you do--kinesthetics live in a different world than most of the people--for us, the experience is THE reason for doing everythings--we need to FEEL the world and the only way to do that is through experience--we are not observers--we have to taste, smell, touch, feel--

i don't know how many tens of thousands of miles i have hiked, walked, climbed or ran in my life or how many things i have done just to know how it feels"

Interesting.

So VERY True....

The Call Of The Wild - Robert Service

Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there’s nothing else to gaze on,

Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,

Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon,

Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?

Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it,

Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?

Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God’s sake go and do it;

Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,

The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?

Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,

And learned to know the desert’s little ways?

Have you camped upon the foothills, have you galloped o’er the ranges,

Have you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?

Have you chummed up with the mesa? Do you know its moods and changes?

Then listen to the Wild—it’s calling you.

Have you known the Great White Silence, not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?

(Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies.)

Have you broken trail on snowshoes? mushed your huskies up the river,

Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?

Have you marked the map’s void spaces, mingled with the mongrel races,

Felt the savage strength of brute in every thew?

And though grim as hell the worst is, can you round it off with curses?

Then hearken to the Wild—it’s wanting you.

Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down, yet grasped at glory,

Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?

“Done things” just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,

Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?

Have you seen God in His splendors, heard the text that nature renders?

(You’ll never hear it in the family pew.)

The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things—

Then listen to the Wild—it’s calling you.

They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching,

They have soaked you in convention through and through;

They have put you in a showcase; you’re a credit to their teaching—

But can’t you hear the Wild?—it’s calling you.

Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;

Let us journey to a lonely land I know.

There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us,

And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go.

Consious Decisions.....

Resolutions aside, what Conscious Decisions will I be able to make and stick to, every day, to better my future. So not only at the end of the year, but in a few months, and a few years, I'll be able to find those decisions have become routine, and as a result, made my life better... There are many options here... and any one of them, big or small, could change my path of life...

I officially Resolve to attempt the following:

• Take a week a month off Facebook - I'm a FB ADDICT !!! Since i left the bar scene it's become my social network. But my blog, photography (organization, and posting on Flickr etc, have gone to hell because of it... Not to mention every other thing that gets left out because i'm playing on line)
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• Read more. I have trouble reading at home, oddly, because there are too many other distractions. Things to do, dishes, laundry, clean... the internet... I read mostly at work and while waiting in public places. I have a few good books sitting here, and a few i'd like to re-read (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, A River Runs Through It, for starters....)
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• Apple A Day - I'm seriously bad about eating fruits and veggies. I've integrated veggies in my diet, but i'm gonna eat more fruit. Love apples, raisins, and bananas... so WHY have i not been eating more?
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• Soda only on weekends - Diet Coke Addict! I will drink less. I feel so much better when i go without... Just need to remind myself... Drink more water... (boring)
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• Photography !!! - Educate, and invest.... Too many good pictures going to waste. This is my future!
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• Sell off all my crap - Two Airstreams, and a few boxes of crap i just don't need. Keeping it simple.
  

• Better posture - Not sure if this is something i can fix, but my posture SUCKS... I slouch ... Terribly so. Must fix this. Don't want to be old and hunchbacked.
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• not use excited gay voice - can a man change his voice? I have my 'first impression' voice, and my "excited hyperactive gay"... I don't like that voice... I need to focus on keepin' the octaves down... (it's not like i open my mouth and a purse falls out... but it's not what you'd expect from a tall big mustached man.... ) (jus' sayin)
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• Meet My PCL - and Hand deliver a Post Card to his hot little hands... Palm Springs.. .You're not that far away
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• PUERTA VALLARTA ! - (or at least back to Vancouver B.C.) Spend some time with Lorne basking in the sun on his veranda, good conversation, and lots and lots of photography... With two countries to choose from how can i go wrong, Eh?
  
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• start saving for and planning PCT hike... I want to through hike the Pacific Crest Trail... all 2650 miles of it.... Whether it takes a year or ten years to plan,... I'm going to do this. Taking six months off and having the cash needed for worn out boots and broke down gear will be interesting. (For you doubters out there... those who have completed the journey have ranged from experts to complete beginners.)
  

"Zigzagging its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) boasts the greatest elevation changes of any of America's National Scenic Trails, allowing it to pass through six out of seven of North America's ecozones including high and low desert, old-growth forest and artic-alpine country. Indeed, the PCT is a trail of diversity and extremes. From scorching desert valleys in Southern California to rain forests in the Pacific Northwest, the PCT offers hikers and equestrians a unique, varied experience." - PCT Association Overview

"Q. How much will it cost to thru-hike the PCT, and how long will it take?

A. A typical hiker wears or carries $1,500 to $3,000 worth of equipment, spends $800 to $2,000 for trail food and posting boxes, add $500 to $1,000 for restaurant binges, junk food, and motels at re-supply points, add $500 for replacement boots, clothes, and other gear, add travel costs to and from the trail and that should just about do it. You can cut the cost of gear/clothes/and food drastically if you are willing to make up your own. Most thru-hikers complete the 2,650 trail miles in 5 to 6 months that means averaging 20 or more miles a day for days actually hiked."
Roughly only 60% of the 300 that attempt to thru-hike each year complete the journey.

I will NOT be giving up my Oreo Double Stuffs...
Not a chance....
I've given up enough already. So what if i down an entire package in a day... I LOVE THEM AND THEY LOVE ME !!!... Ok, that may be a bit off... but a boy can pretend right... It's the only real love affair i have :-(

Late Night Return From Work

The vast darkness that normally exists beyond the roadside, now reveals itself as Enormous White Spires beside Giant Abominable Snowmen. The mounds of snow clinging tight to the pines are stunning, day and night. The single light at a homestead sets aglow half a mile. I can only imagine the power of the moon at it's fullest.