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You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy. —


(Edward Abbey, The Hidden Canyon — A River Journey)

If you build it

they will come...

James Hall so smooth that he doesn't even spook the BUCK!

Jump the void

Trails transformed my life

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Giants of Dirt creator and BMX dirt jump inspiration Dane Searls died Friday morning at Gold Coast Hospital in Australia, according to a statement from the Queensland Police. He was 23.

Searls succumbed to injuries sustained after he tried to jump into a swimming pool at Surfers Paradise night club Billy's Beach House on Sunday night in Queensland, Australia. He suffered traumatic head and back injuries, and had remained in a coma since the accident.

SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/bmx-star-dane-searls-dies-20111125-1nxpv.html

Goldcoast: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2011/11/25/368771_gold-coast-news.html

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The bicycle is a curious vehicle.  Its passenger is its engine.  

~John Howard

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds.  The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. 

 ~Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.  ~Grant Petersen

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.  Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.  ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

Consider a man riding a bicycle.  Whoever he is, we can say three things about him.  We know he got on the bicycle and started to move.  We know that at some point he will stop and get off.  Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it.  That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.  ~William Golding

NorthWest

Sweet edit from Tyler Deschaine!
Riders: Nate Berkheimer, Mike Hammond, Paul Kintner, Kagen Doyle, Ted Van Orman, Beeler Van Orman, Dan Closser, GJ, Darin Read, Anthony Alex, Rusty Keys, Kelly Mcgarry, Mike Lawless, Scott Matual, Jon Bonthius, & Tyler Deschaine

Free Flying in the trees

Mark Potoczny  taking the Free Flyer Stem over some BIG dubs in the Steel City.

Kiss of Death

One man's nightmare, is another man's profession.
$10 show for two people in the audience.

-Rural Thailand

The fire burns from within

Troy McMurray taking it over vert in Boulder, CO @ 38 rotations around the sun.

Oct. 2011

Link-to an Interview I did with Troy for Soul BMX Mag

Coloradical

Prepared for Mud Season...

Solstice Fall Tour 2011

Pre-Season

'Mah legs are so-ohhh strong I can't help but go high' - PROJECT - livin' it!

The Laughing Heart

Evergreen

Predicated on the low humidity it is common to see residents walk around in their short sleeve shirts in the middle of winter, and predicated on the high altitude there is little need of screens in the summer, due to a lack of flies. In early spring hundreds of elk descend down to residents homes where they feed unbothered by their human neighbors. Two risks associated with living in Evergreen are the occasional mountain lion that poses a risk to humans and pets and driving, which can be quite treacherous.

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Yo Ted- I went to a talk last week about the famine in East Africa. With all the 
crisis in the world its tragic that kids end up being the ones who suffer.  Very 
little media coverage has allowed many a blind eye to the situation. But through 
public awareness and insight i know that people will respond.  Check out the 
links below:

-Matthew Andriese

Hello Global Citizens

The African Student Organization and Save the Children is raising a fundraising 
to raise money to help with the food crisis in East of Africa. Make a difference 
by donation to help the children in East Africa. Drought is inevitable, but 
famine is not. Watch the video below.

http://one.org/us/actnow/fword/famine-thanks.html?akid=2688.1913558.CODzO-&rd=1&t=1

Below is the link to Save the Children organization for donations.

http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/ASO_MTU/savethechildrenseastafricafoodcrisis

Opportunist

Mile High

Just like humans, animals often ponder the weighty philosophical questions: “What’s the meaning of life?” “Why are we here?” “Should I have spent all those years in grad school?” But unlike humans, animals then quickly snap out of it and go back to living. So the lesson is while it’s perfectly natural to focus on the big picture, just like animals don’t forget to run in a field, splash in the water and avoid hungry hawks.

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Life? is Manufactured in the USA

We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. Most of us cannot imagine the wheat beyond the bread, or the farmer beyond the wheat, or the farm beyond the farmer, or the history beyond the farm. Most people cannot imagine the forest and the forest economy that produced their houses and furniture and paper; or the landscapes, the streams and the weather that fill their pitchers and bathtubs and swimming pools with water. Most people appear to assume that when they have paid their money for these things they have entirely met their obligations.

Money does not bring forth food. Neither does the technology of the food system. Food comes from nature and from the work of people. If the supply of food is to be continuous for a long time, then people must work in harmony with nature. That means that people must find the right answers to a lot of hard practical questions. The same applies to forestry and the possibility of a continuous supply of timber.

One way we could describe the task ahead of us is by saying that we need to enlarge the consciousness and the conscience of the economy. Our economy needs to know — and care — what it is doing. This is revolutionary, of course, if you have a taste for revolution, but it is also a matter of common sense.

Undoubtedly some people will want to start a movement to bring this about. They probably will call it the Movement to Teach the Economy What It Is Doing — the mtewiid. Despite my very considerable uneasiness, I will agree to this, but on three conditions.

My first condition is that this movement should begin by giving up all hope and belief in piecemeal, one-shot solutions. The present scientific quest for odourless hog manure should give us sufficient proof that the specialist is no longer with us. Even now, after centuries of reductionist propaganda, the world is still intricate and vast, as dark as it is light, a place of mystery, where we cannot do one thing without doing many things, or put two things together without putting many things together. Water quality, for example, cannot be improved without improving farming and forestry, but farming and forestry cannot be improved without improving the education of consumers — and so on.

The proper business of a human economy is to make one whole thing of ourselves and this world. To make ourselves into a practical wholeness with the land under our feet is maybe not altogether possible — how would we know? — but, as a goal, it at least carries us beyond hubris, beyond the utterly groundless assumption that we can subdivide our present great failure into a thousand separate problems that can be fixed by a thousand task forces of academic and bureaucratic specialists. That programme has been given more than a fair chance to prove itself, and we ought to know by now that it won’t work.

My second condition is that the people in this movement (the mtewiid) should take full responsibility for themselves as members of the economy. If we are going to teach the economy what it is doing, then we need to learn what we are doing. This is going to have to be a private movement as well as a public one. If it is unrealistic to expect wasteful industries to be conservers, then obviously we must lead in part the public life of complainers, petitioners, protesters, advocates and supporters of stricter regulations and saner policies. But that is not enough.

If it is unreasonable to expect a bad economy to try to become a good one, then we must go to work to build a good economy. It is appropriate that this duty should fall to us, for good economic behaviour is more possible for us than it is for the great corporations with their miseducated managers and their greedy and oblivious stockholders. Because it is possible for us, we must try in every way we can to make good economic sense in our own lives, in our households, and in our communities. We must do more for ourselves and our neighbours. We must learn to spend our money with our friends and not with our enemies. But to do this it is necessary to renew local economies and revive the domestic arts.

In seeking to change our economic use of the world, we are seeking inescapably to change our lives. The outward harmony that we desire between our economy and the world depends finally upon an inward harmony between our own hearts and the originating spirit that is the life of all creatures, a spirit as near us as our flesh and yet forever beyond the measures of this obsessively measuring age. We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

My third condition is that this movement should content itself to be poor. We need to find cheap solutions, solutions within the reach of everybody, and the availability of a lot of money prevents the discovery of cheap solutions. The solutions of modern medicine and modern agriculture are all staggeringly expensive, and this is caused in part, and maybe altogether, because of the availability of huge sums of money for medical and agricultural research.

Too much money, moreover, attracts administrators and experts as sugar attracts ants — look at what is happening in our universities. We should not envy rich movements that are organized and led by an alternative bureaucracy living on the problems it is supposed to solve. We want a movement that is a movement because it is advanced by all its members in their daily lives.

NOW, HAVING COMPLETED this very formidable list of the problems and difficulties, fears and fearful hopes that lie ahead of us, I am relieved to see that I have been preparing myself all along to end by saying something cheerful. What I have been talking about is the possibility of renewing human respect for this Earth and all the good, useful and beautiful things that come from it. I have made it clear, I hope, that I don’t think this respect can be adequately enacted or conveyed by tipping our hats to nature or by representing natural loveliness in art or by prayers of thanksgiving or by preserving tracts of wilderness — although I recommend all those things. The respect I mean can be given only by using well the world’s goods that are given to us. This good use, which renews respect — which is the only currency, so to speak, of respect — also renews our pleasure. The callings and disciplines that I have spoken of as the domestic arts are stationed all along the way from the farm to the prepared dinner, from the forest to the dinner table, from stewardship of the land to hospitality to friends and strangers. These arts are as demanding and gratifying, as instructive and as pleasing, as the so-called “fine arts”. To learn them is, I believe, the work that is our profoundest calling. Our reward is that they will enrich our lives and make us glad.This article is reprinted from Orion magazine. Wendell Berry is a farmer, a poet and a novelist.

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