1. Snowshoeing at Mt. Spokane State Park. It was extremely quiet - the only sound being the squeeking and the crunching of the snowshoes as Big Frank moved along the trail. That movement settled into a kind of rhythm and with the crisp cool air, the cedar lined trail, and brilliant white snow everywhere Big Frank definitely got into the flow of the moment. It was terrific. Categorize as SNOWSHOEING.
2. Driving back Big Frank put on Grant Green's amazing "Idle Moments" accompanied by Joe Henderson on tenor, and Bobby Hutchison on vibes - it is a classic. This is classic jazz in every sense of the word. It is one of those jazz songs where the melody falls just a fraction of a second behind the beat creating such a laid back hip sound that it takes you away. Categorize as DRIVING/MUSIC.3. During the evening in honor of the Year of the Ox, Big Frank went to a Chineese New Year party prepared and served by Chinese friends of Big Frank's. In the company of lots of friends, with terrific Chinese food, and great conversation flow was easily achieved. Categorize as SOCIALIZING/EATING.
4. Reading Wallace Stevens' aphorisms. As with all good aphorisms - and Stevens' are good - they make you look at things anew - differently. They challenge your view and in thought take you away from yourself - from thinking of yourself. Categorize as READING/THINKING
Here are ten of Big Frank's favorite Wallace Stevens aphorisms:
Life is an affair of people not of places. but for me life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic.
What we see in the mind is as real to us as what we see by the eye.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
We live in the mind.
When the mind is like a hall in which thought is like a voice speaking, the voice is always that of some one else.
The more intensely one feels something that one likes the more one is willing for it to be what it is.
The mind that in heaven created the earth and the mind that on earth created heaven were, as it happened one.
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Life is an affair of people not of places. but for me life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic.
What we see in the mind is as real to us as what we see by the eye.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
We live in the mind.
When the mind is like a hall in which thought is like a voice speaking, the voice is always that of some one else.
The more intensely one feels something that one likes the more one is willing for it to be what it is.
The mind that in heaven created the earth and the mind that on earth created heaven were, as it happened one.
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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