MESSAGE ON AN ENVELOPE, PLACED IN THIS BOOK, FROM ABOUT, THREE WEEKS AGO, THE LAST TIME I OPENED THE BOOK! NOT MUCH OF A READER! BIG TIME THINKER, BUT READER, NO . . .
Wine a little--laugh a lot! Sparks the Feels. Everything.
RELAX: EXPERIENCE IS ALL AROUND YOU!
WORDS ARE POWERFUL HELP! THE WORD, OR SCRIPTURES, ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SWORD!
IN THE BEGINNING, WAS THE WORD!
GOD IS THE WORD!
- the first rule of survival: to believe that anything is possible . . . or, straight from the scriptures, all things are possible with GOD!
- have an "I Love Me Room" in your house or just in your mind! The writer, Laurence Gonzales, father, who inspired, the writing of this book, along with another, airplane crash that he almost got on, that killed like 238 people, inspired this book . . . his father was a fighter pilot, who dropped, 27,000 feet, flying over Germany, during WWII, and survived! He said, his father and all survivors on that war, had, a room such as this, to remind them, of just how lucky they are to be alive! They put war memorabilia, and other things, like medals, of honor, and, newspaper articles, that give their experience meaning. This father, mangled, and injured, lost 8 men, in his squad, the day he was shot down, and he raised, 8 sons, looking at them as replacing the men he lost! He got a Ph.D, back in the days, when, AMERICA flourished for the MIDDLE CLASS, that brought on the GOLDEN ERA in America!
- the author, talks about, being up, at Glacier National Park when, crews were clearing, a record, amount of snow, of Going to the Sun Road, with treacherous conditions, for both snow removal trucks and crews. One year, a 50 ton bolder, dropped, on a Japanese tourists, car, killing the husband and not touching the wife. . . . The road that leads the Japanese tourist to drive beneath a falling 50 ton rock in Glacier National Park stretches back to the first divisions of a zygote, even as it begins scrawling out the definition of itself in lines of sugarcoated DNA.
- that doesn't mean everything is fated; indeed, just the opposite. It means the systems we live with are unpredictable and therefore have profound and unexpected results. But there are patterns in there, too. the same boy who rode his bicycle off a garage roof to see what would happen, who joined the Calvary in high school to feel the heat of the horse and the kick of the gun, had at last achieved what Leschak calls"an almost mystical plane of awareness" in learning to lean on the wind, accept the speed and noise and smoke, and to aim carefully and shoot straight while both calming and thrilling to the complex ballet of which he was the silent center, the jockey to the horse. "He worked out his own salvation."
- . . . a life cannot be judged until it is complete.
- In a world governed by an ineluctable order, which pushes through Newtonian physics, Einsteinian relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum theory with all the certainty of gravity or any other encroaching natural law, nothing can truly be said to happen by chance, which is just a word we invented to explain the troublesome boundary between order and chaos. Fate, then, turns out to be the struggle, the tension, between the natural law that dictates that everything should proceed toward disorder (entropy) and the natural law that dictates that everything should be self-organizing (complexity theory). If those are, indeed, the two overarching natural laws, then, everything becomes clear and we go forward into the past to find the Chinese concept of yin and yang (the male and the female).
- RULES OF ADVENTURE:
- Perceive, believe, then act.
- It's important to have a plan and a backup plan or a bailout plan.
- But you must hold on to the plan with a gentle grip and be willing to let it go.
- Rigid people are dangerous people.
- Survival is adaptation, and adaptation is change, but it is change based on a true reading of the environment.
- Those who avoid accidents are those who see the world clearly, see is changing, and change their behavior accordingly.
- Avoid impulsive behavior; don't hurry.
- Know your stuff.
- A deep knowledge of the world around you may save yoru life.
- Get the information.
- Park rangers, lifeguards, and local authorities are happy to tell you if you only ask.
- Be humble.
- A Navy Seal commander told Al Siebert, the psychologist who studies survival, that the Rambo types are the first to die. Don't think that just because you're good at one thing, it makes you good at other things.
- There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.
- That's true in all hazardous pursuits.
- When in doubt, bail out.
- At times like that, it's good to ask yourself if it's worth dying for.
- Some people just want to die in a hail of police gun fire.
Some food for thought!
GREAT BOOK!
DITTO EVERYTHING!
WORDS OF EXPERIENCE!
VERY DANGEROUS LIFE.
NOW, MOM AND DAD, MAKE SOME MORE CHRISTMAS MAGIC . . . HAVE THE KIDS PUT THEIR SHOES OUT EACH NIGHT, AND DEPENDING ON THEM BEING GOOD OR BAD, REWARD OR NOT!
SAVE A KISS OR TWO FOR ME!
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