{"id":34,"date":"2016-11-20T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:30:47","slug":"about-morning-guy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/about-morning-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Morning Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was born to rise early.
\nI value solitude, beauty, and true things.
\nMy brain fires on all cylinders in the AM
\n(hence Morning Guy<\/i>).
\nI come from a long line of iron workers and plumbers
\nand yet I got a degree in Political Science and oddly enough became
\nan NWS watercolor artist,
\na “rogue” American Public Television editor\/producer,
\nan obscure PBS TV host,
\nand an even more obscure author.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, steel and copper run through my blood.
\nBeing a Leap Year baby
\nI am one-fourth my apparent age
\nand some tell me (for good or bad) I act it.
\nI live in a treehouse in NW Montana
\nwith my beautiful and talented wife, Marlene.
\nWe do not own a horse or even a pony.
\nDespite our imperfect parenting,
\nwe have two accomplished adult married children and four “grand” grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I believe that life is all about
\nfamily,
\nhiking, kayaking, fishing, sailing,
\ncampfires, sunrises (and sunsets),
\n“anchoring out” under the stars,
\ngood books, good movies,
\nlandscape painting,
\nreflection,
\ngrace,
\nand strong coffee \u2026
\nnot necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n

This blog is a hodgepodge of all of the above.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Favorite Lines To Live By:<\/b><\/p>\n

All good things come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
\n<\/em>Norman Maclean
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.<\/em>
\nCarl Sagan<\/p>\n

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.<\/em>
\nMark Twain<\/p>\n

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.<\/em>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

It ain\u2019t what you don\u2019t know that gets you into trouble. It\u2019s what you know for sure that just ain\u2019t so.<\/em>
\n(attributed to Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and others)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
When not wearing my Batman cape, I’m just an ordinary, average guy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all become forefathers by and by.<\/em>
\nDan Fogelberg<\/p>\n

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
\n<\/em>Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Einstein said he could never understand it all. Planets spinning through space, the smile upon your face.<\/em>
\nJames Taylor<\/p>\n

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.<\/em>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/p>\n

Writing is the only thing worth a damn. Unless you\u2019re a painter. Then it\u2019s painting.<\/em>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
“Happy Trees.” Yeah, that’s the ticket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.<\/em>
\nTibetan proverb (?)<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.<\/em>
\nJames R. Sherman<\/p>\n

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.<\/em>
\nHelen Keller<\/p>\n

I never lose. I either win or learn.<\/em>
\nNelson Mandela<\/p>\n

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
\n<\/em>George Patton<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Bad CowGar: My No-Morning-Coffee Unshaven Bad-Attitude Cattle-Rustling Desperado Alter-Ego.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do or do not. There is no try.<\/em>
\nYoda<\/p>\n

If anything is going to happen, it’s going to happen out there.<\/em>
\nCaptain Ron<\/p>\n

Our intention creates our reality.<\/em>
\nWayne Dyer<\/p>\n

Find your beach.<\/em>
\nCorona Extra beer ad campaign.<\/p>\n

What, me worry?<\/em>
\nAlfred E. Neuman<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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