September 2011
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Inside Outside: Inferiority complex?
“We’re based in Santa Fe, but we’re a national magazine. I’m sure you’ve read it.”
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“Don’t ask me about life after death. I don’t understand enough about...”
– Gary Snyder, attributed to Confucius
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12 months, 14 countries, 350 to 400 new beers... →
and it was all paid for by a college fellowship.
If I could go back to school, I’d apply for a grant to study the finer points of club etiquette in capital cities around the world. *sigh* Wasted years.
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The Floating Apple: Full version of a Persian Poem →
Are you the bush or the wind?
beautyofapple:
“Where are you going in rush?”
به کجا چنین شتابان؟
The bush asked the wind.
گون از نسیم پرسید
“I cannot bare the dust of this desert, don’t you want to leave?”
دل من گرفته زین جا، هوس سفر نداری، ز غبار این بیابان؟
“It’s all I ever dream of, but what can I do, I’m stuck!”
همه آرزویم اما چه…
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Patty's Parting Shot
It’s the end of an era. On Monday, I’m moving to a tropical island in the Mediterranean to freelance for Outside and teach English. I know, rough life.
Nathan and I started Outside’s Tumblr 185 posts ago with bobcat kittens. So I’m stepping up my game: I started with kittens, I’m ending with lions.
On an evening hike yesterday, the two dogs I was with treed a...
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Inside Outside: “Tumblr? I barely even know her!”
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“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”
– Dr. Seuss
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Inside Outside: You know it’s an Outside party when there’s a Clif Bar in the guitar case.
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“Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily...”
– Jim Harrison, The Man Who Gave Up His Name
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WatchPure. Cheese. We may be black and blue but we’re American Gladiators through and through.
Watching American Gladiator with Nathan. Um, I mean, hard at work. Obviously.
My gladiator name: Lazer
Nathan’s gladiator name: Blade
Which makes your tumblr-ing duo: Blazer.
What would your gladiator name be?
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“I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly”
– John Denver, Rocky Mountain High
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Watchbeforethewinterfires:
I’m really excited to post this video: Having been such a big fan of Gregory Alan Isakov’s music for some years, I jumped at the chance to film this Colorado singer/songwriter performing. Im really grateful to Gregory for letting us drag him hiking up hills and clambering over rocks to get to this location.
Shot in June, on the Cornwall stop of his European tour, here he...
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“He deals with obstacles very well. Basically, he ignores them.”
– Chef Adam Perry Lang on Jamie Oliver
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