Following in Dylan Thomas's Wake

The Boathouse where Dylan Thomas lived

Dylan Thomas died when I was eight - in 1953.  A hopeless drunk, he inspired us with his call to his father: Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.  I kept the New Directions paperback edition of his poems near me and loved the radio play Under Milk Wood which we staged at the Fenwick Theater at Holy Cross.

The tides and topography of Wales call me still - though I've never been there.  Ondine Cohane did take those steps, Following in Dylan Thomas's Wake:

Climbing along a steep coastal path through a forest in southern Wales, with russet red and tawny brown autumn leaves crunching beneath my feet, I reached a crest where the trailhead looked back onto a long estuary lined with salt flats. The River Taf ran through the headlands before me, its glacier-cut course unmistakable alongside the grass-covered cliffs on either side. The sea spread out before me, a moody canvas of blues and gray. White-topped gorse and cherry-red currant bushes gave color to my panorama, the plaintive chorus of sea birds the only soundtrack.
I’d come to Wales, and to this spot specifically, to follow in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas, the Welsh-born poet who made this walk famous in his 1944 “Poem in October.”

inside the shed where Dylan Thomas wrote daily

Is fitbit fit to use?

I'm a convert to.  The Fitbit gives me a goal.  I like that it spurs me to get my 10,000 steps/day. - gwc
Tracking fitness one step at a time
FiveThirtyEightScience
by Carl Bialik

I’ve become a skeptical convert to step-counters. Though they produce imperfect data, some information is better than none at all. And if they give me credit for taking steps when I’m actually sitting down but, say, clapping or pumping my fists? Well, sitting and clapping is better than just sitting.

Kite surfing north of Malibu

Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Who Reshaped Climbing, Is Dead at 63 - NYTimes.com

Charlie Porter, solo, Baffin Island, 1975.
He ran out of food and hiked back 10 days on frostbitten feet.

He climbed El Capitan solo; Mt. Asgard on Baffin Island, and kayaked around Cape Horn - an island.  Dead of a heart attack at 63 at his home on the Beagle Channel in Patagonia, Argentina. - GWC

Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Who Reshaped Climbing, Is Dead at 63 - NYTimes.com:

When Charlie Porter showed up in the Yosemite Valley in the early 1970s and started forging new climbing routes up the famously imposing monolithic rock wall known as El Capitan, he was something of a mystery man, a stranger to the clubby group of mostly Californians who had made Yosemite the center of the climbing world.

He was from the East somewhere — Massachusetts, it turned out — and he had not grown up in the sport the way just about every other accomplished climber had, but his skills seemed otherworldly.

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9/11 - from space

taken from the International Space Station, 9/11/2001
by Astronaut Frank Culbertson

I first saw the towers after the second plane hit.  Watching from a Newark office building where I was representing a client in a Social Security disability hearing, I saw the second plume of smoke rising before it merged with the first, curving south in a light breeze against a clear blue sky. - gwc

Expanded search for Malaysian Jet

This map shows all  the landing places the Malaysian jet could reach from its last known position.  If they don't find it on the bottom of the sea or in a himalayan valley there will be nveer ending speculation.

Aww, c'mon. How about out like a lamb?

Aww, c'mon.
Sunday night, Monday, Monday night

Pescadotes: harrison lake and mt. katahdin

Pescadotes: harrison lake and mt. katahdin:

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Stunning Time-Lapse Video Shows Rare Views of Yosemite

Stunning Time-Lapse Video Shows Rare Views of Yosemite:





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A Landmark Restored, From Mosaic Marble Floor to Grand Dome - NYTimes.com

The Williamsburg Savings Bank headquarters restored in Brooklyn.  The old WSB tower a mile away is still the tallest building in Brooklyn

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