Find Your Way

Today I have a poem for you that I wrote a few months back. Happy Tuesday everyone, peace.

Find your way with a quiet mind.
Identify your own limitations and look them gently in the eye.
Visualize a hight you cannot reach,
And a distance you cannot walk,
Then proceed with an open heart.

Mountain Monday

O.K. so I have been slack on updating my blog this week due to all my summer activities. Here is a quick run down of what I have been up to this week.

• Worked
  
• Rode Go-Karts
  
• Played Ultimate Frisbee
• Did Yoga
• Cleaned House
  
• BBQ'ed On The Deck
• Got My Season Mountain Bike Trail Permit & Pass
  
• Hiked Upper Bowl Down to Mirror Lake
• Was Out Too Late @ The Ratskeller
• Ran Into A Friend I Had Not Seen In Years
  
• Hosted Spaghetti Sunday
• Had A Run-In With Clackamas County's Finest
  
• Rode Chopper Bicycles

I want to give a quick shout-out to my brother who is on a month vacation to Thailand and New Zealand. CHEERS bro.!

Mountain Monday

O.K. so this week I have done things a bit differently, due to the fact that this is such a wonderful photo. This past Friday a friend and I took a hike from Ski Bowl East to Trillium Lake (see photo above), a loop that is about 12 miles round-trip. It's sort of crazy to think about in mid July but, half a mile into the hike we hit snow.

On our way back we ran into a crazy guy in his mid 50's that had gotten his car stuck in the snow. The next hour was spent helping this guy dig his car out of the snow pack (see photo below of my friend Chris digging). I mostly sat and watched as he was nice enough to share his emergency beer stash with us.

Sub Pop Turns 20

Much of my teen and early twenty's were spent going to see live music from bands signed on Seattle's, Sub Pop Records. One show that I will never forget was the 5th Anniversary Blowout Celebration of Sub Pop Records. My how time fly's. Today Sub Pop celebrates its 20th year of operation.

That night fifteen years ago, at a one-off venue, The Motor Sports Garage (the car race garage for Seattle's Motor Sports Racetrack) me and some three to four thousand kids watched in awe as The Dwarves, The Melvins, Love Battery, Tad and Nirvana (pre-Nevermind) set the night on fire and forever changed the history of Rock and Roll Music.

CHEERS TO SUB POP!

Football, Rose City Style

A local TV Show called Portland Now just ran a good little piece on the Timbers Army.

Mountain Monday

As you can see, this week the Mt. Hood Adventure Park opened. Below is a look at the Go-Kart track on the East Side of Ski Bowl. Today it was all blue skies and 85 degrees. If you are ever in search of something different to do this summer, checkout the Adventure Park.

Top Adventure Park Attractions:

• Alpine Slide
• Go-Kart Track
• Mountain Bike Park
• Bungee Jump
• Rapid Riser
• Zip Line
• Rock Wall
• Frisbee Golf
• Beer Garden
  

Vertical Farming

I just finished listing to the July 1st edition of the Citizen Reporter podcast, it's subject might be of interest to those who read this blog. The topic is about a new approach in Urban Farming called Vertical Farming.

Bicycle Mark, host of the Citizen Reporter podcast interviews Professor Dickson Despommier of Columbia University. The Professor talks about his vision of the future for urban gardens.  The Vertical Farm Project.

My Virtual World

Without my MacBook Pro I don't know what I would do. This thought process is new to me as my laptop is less than one year old and it's also the first computer that's solely mine. When I first purchased this computer about the only presence I had in the virtual world was an e-mail account and some random membership registrations on a few message boards.

Now, in less than a year, I have setup accounts on many social networking sites. At first I was a wee bit leery of getting wrapped up into this whole virtual world, but I have been surprised by how beneficial this modern form of communication and expression is.

The benefits (for me) of social networking:

1. Keeping my mind busy thinking of subjects to share with others.
2. Staying in closer contact with friends (and others) who in the past I might have lost connection with.
3. Being inspired by others who are also social networking.

The Nevets Empire (haha)

• Twitter
• MySpace
• Flickr
• Muxtape

The image above is a jpg of my soon to be launched website that I have been bulding to showcase my photography and other artistic projects. I have purchased the domain name of www.pdxnevets.com

Blows Me Away

I found this clip awhile ago and it got me thinking about how foolish some people are. No matter how many times I watch, I'm still surprised by these responses.

On another note, in the same vain (but not the racist part like above)

The other night I was talking with a lady about snowboarding and traveling. This ladies daughter is an up and coming Boardercross racer who trains with the United States Olympic Team. At an age of only seventeen her daughter spends the year racing at locations all-over the globe. From time to time her mother is able to also travel with her daughter.

So, as we were chatting she mentioned that she traveled to Germany this past year. Although she did not care for Germany she did love Munich. As we were talking I got the impression she was unsure about what country Munich was in. She then went on to say that she loved the country of Europe. I quickly corrected her and said Europe is a Continent, but she did not flinch. Maybe the saddest thing of all 'tho, was when she thought the "Iraq" war was actually taking place in Kuwait.

I sure hope her daughter is getting a better education than her mom did.