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John Muir.

30-Apr-14

buy modafinil from mexico Crossing the Cumberlands: Awoke drenched with mountain-mist, which made a grand show, as it moved away before the hot sun.  Passed Montgomery, a shabby village at the head of the east slope of the Cumberland Mountains.  Obtained breakfast in a clean house and began the descent of the mountains.  Obtained fine views of a wide, […]

Being Pro-Life In Tennessee.

30-Apr-14

When I was a child of maybe ten or eleven, I remember hearing a bunch of teenagers talking about a recent camping trip they had been on. There was a stream by their campsite, and they walked up the stream, catching every frog they could, and then smashing them. “We musta gotten fifty frogs!” they […]

Into Rural Kentucky.

22-Apr-14

Wednesday had been appointed as the departure date from Lexington: Catherine would be starting Easter break, and she could then drive me down to the Gulf and leave me there with my bike.  But Catherine got off work and the truck was not yet ready.  I had come up with an alternative plan: we would […]

The Next Disaster – John Goes to the Chiropractor.

22-Apr-14

When I had first pulled into the transmission place in Lexington, I will confess that I felt a thrill of Providential Comfort, the sense we have from time to time that our decisions are being guided by a benevolent Power, and may be settled into with confidence.  Whether this is truly an inkling of divine […]

John Muir in Chicago.

17-Apr-14

John Muir, at the age of 29, not having much in his daily life to hold him back, set off from Indianapolis southward to see what he called the “hot gardens of the sun.”  He walked through Kentucky, over the Smoky Mountains into Georgia, and down to the west coast of Florida, where he got […]