Estate Sale Pictures

Sometimes I go to estate sales that sound interesting - just to take some pictures.  Here are some from this afternoons sale.  It includes a cabinet I would have loved to purchase but no need, no space and too much money.  Only the picture of it came home with me. 

No School so Back To Reading

Now that we are between semesters I have returned to reading.  Just finished "Hold the Enlightenment" by TIm Cahill.  It is a collection of his articles from magazines such Outside.  He is into adventure type travel - many of the times into war zones which is not something I would be interested in. 


I found two items that really hit home.  


In Professor Cahill's Travel 101 he states: 


Rule 19 - corollary 3 - "The worse the experience, the better the story. Therefore...
Rule 20: There are no bad experiences.


A great way to approach travel.  I know I still tell the story of the overnight train from Poland - sitting on the floor with two young guys who had hid "something" in the trash as the military is tearing the train apart as we crossed the Czechoslovakian border.  I was certain they would get caught and we would have all been kept for questioning. 


In the second - he is talking about a sea kayak trip in Puget Sound.  "Paddling sometimes feels like a religious chant, a prayer offered to sea.  It's tiring and repetitive, so that the mind often turns itself off to the clatter of the merely external.  In this trancelike state, it's sometimes possible to feel the soul spiral inward upon itself."


That is how I feel about rowing.  I haven't seriously rowed in over 10 years but keep thinking of going back to it.  The masters women's rowing program at the Detroit Boat club has is practically non-existant but I found another group that rows in Detroit.  I am in rotten shape but I am hoping to get back into it.  We shall see.