I was born to rise early.
I value solitude, beauty, and true things.
My brain fires on all cylinders in the AM
(hence Morning Guy).
I come from a long line of iron workers and plumbers
and yet I got a degree in Political Science and oddly enough became
an NWS watercolor artist,
a “rogue” American Public Television editor/producer,
an obscure PBS TV host,
and an even more obscure author.
Nevertheless, steel and copper run through my blood.
Being a Leap Year baby
I am one-fourth my apparent age
and some tell me (for good or bad) I act it.
I live in a treehouse in NW Montana
with my beautiful and talented wife, Marlene.
We do not own a horse or even a pony.
Despite our imperfect parenting,
we have two accomplished adult married children and four “grand” grandchildren.
I believe that life is all about
family,
hiking, kayaking, fishing, sailing,
campfires, sunrises (and sunsets),
“anchoring out” under the stars,
good books, good movies,
landscape painting,
reflection,
grace,
and strong coffee …
not necessarily in that order.
This blog is a hodgepodge of all of the above.
Favorite Lines To Live By:
All good things come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
Norman Maclean
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
Carl Sagan
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
(attributed to Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and others)
We all become forefathers by and by.
Dan Fogelberg
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Albert Einstein
Einstein said he could never understand it all. Planets spinning through space, the smile upon your face.
James Taylor
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Writing is the only thing worth a damn. Unless you’re a painter. Then it’s painting.
Ernest Hemingway
Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Tibetan proverb (?)
You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
James R. Sherman
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Nelson Mandela
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
George Patton
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
If anything is going to happen, it’s going to happen out there.
Captain Ron
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
Find your beach.
Corona Extra beer ad campaign.
What, me worry?
Alfred E. Neuman
