Blast From The Past

This is the book I'm reading: The Last Valley by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.


I borrowed it from the library. To check out the book, I scanned the bar code at the self-checkout computer. Is there any other way?


When I opened the front cover of the book *gasp!*
What's this?!
The last time I saw one of these was about 1975 when I was in First grade...


It's stamped 1976.
Was I born yet? Just kidding. That's a standard joke around my house.

What I'm Reading...

I've done more reading in the past year than ever before. Sometimes I wander around the library wondering what book to borrow. I've read about the earliest Native American Indians. Then I started reading about the American West.

I'm currently reading the Big Sky series by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. The book is titled "Fair Land, Fair Land". Today I read a paragraph that echos exactly how I have felt while hiking.

"The days and nights were the same but the country changed, from forest to ferns to pieces of prairie and cottonwood patches. It was good to take note of them all but bad not to know what was seen. What's the name of this plant? What kind of tree's that? A damn shame that a man went through life ignorant of the life around him."

Inspiration from Kermit the Frog

I'm reading a book titled: Before You Leap, A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons. by, Kermit The Frog. It's a short book, filled with humor, it also reminds me of the childhood Muppet and Sesame Street characters I grew up with.

A few quotes from the book:

"It doesn't matter if you're a frog or a pig or a bear or even a person. It doesn't matter if you're a big fish in a little pond or a small fish in a big pond -- you're you and you matter."

"Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go. Life is how we get there."

"Having dreams and setting goals is important, but nothing is going to happen if you sit in the fog like a frog agog on a log in a bog."

"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. The lovers, the dreamers, and you."