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It was a really nice hall, (nicer, I will have to say, than even First Baptist’s) and Stephen was very proud of it.  \n\n\n![20201215_151309.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPfX8RCjiCx4G4FhyZZ8TGY7hugtBb4MMeB42cRW3k3i8/20201215_151309.jpg)\nParks City Baptist Church Sanctuary 2020\n\nHowever, once we sat down to catch up, he confided in me some concerns he had for the future of the music program.  “The challenge is that people don’t have tolerance for the discipline of the inconvenient,” he said.  “It takes a lot of work and effort to make a music program like this happen.  And it’s not cheap to maintain.  I think a lot of people are starting to lose sight of the reason for all of this, and some are starting to question whether or not it’s worth all the cost and effort it takes to maintain.”  \n\nHaving seen so many churches shift from traditional choirs to praise bands (including my mom and grandfather’s home church), I wasn’t surprised to hear this, yet I was surprised by how dismayed I was at the notion.  This venerable tradition of a quality church music program must not be abandoned.  Many modern churches do great things with rock style worship, but for old, traditional churches like First Baptist or Park City to phase out their choral programs would be a great tragedy.  I believe the world very much needs these kinds of music programs, for reasons that Stephen did well to articulate that day.  “The church offers people a chance to be part of a high level musical experience that isn’t available anywhere else outside of being a professional,” he said. \n\nHe’s right.  When I listen to the recordings of the Chapel Singers when we sang with orchestras at Youth Cue (a gathering of church choirs for a day of performances) I am blown away by the fact that the voices I’m hearing are high schoolers.  It sounds like professionally produced music.  We definitely had some incredibly talented voices in youth choir, some of whom would later go on to become professional musicians, but most of us were just ordinary folks, and even those who were not musically gifted could participate and discover their voice.  For those who could tolerate the discipline of showing up every week, a whole world was opened to us.  Because of financial investment made by the church, and the hard work of directors like Stephen Carrell and accompanists like Laurie Wilson or Letha Crouch, we got a musical education at the level of a university fine arts program, and the experience of performing before audiences large and small in different places around the country.  \n\nThe value of having shared in such experiences with my friends during our high school years is incalculable, and we all continue to derive strength, comfort, and inspiration from such powerful choral pieces that are completely ingrained in our minds and hearts.\n\n\n![99 (22).jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmangotC8DgJvsmhqPPCunJC7LpMcMMmg5Q5npb1fAXRTz/99%20(22).jpg)\nChapel Singers Home Concert 2000\n\n“Write your blessed name,” we sang in a song thusly titled, “O Lord, upon my heart. There to remain so indelibly engraved. That no prosperity, that no adversity shall ever move me from your love. Be to me a strong tower of defense.  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I thanked him for his lifelong career of bringing such great music to so many people’s lives, and for the impact his ministry had had on my own life. He derives great joy from knowing he has made a difference in people’s lives, and I feel that those of us who have benefited from church music programs should take extra care to honor and uplift our music ministers.  \n\n\n![20201215_150858.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYxp18bczwwQ8CS7siLNEEXHYoBgzaA823TYJWVpjBFRn/20201215_150858.jpg)\nStephen and me, 2020\n\nEspecially those who are still holding down traditional music programs in a world with shortening attention spans and busier schedules.  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Church choirs and orchestras are time consuming and expensive, and they require great discipline from people who are not getting paid to show up, but who do anyway, even when it is inconvenient, because they know they are part of something great.   It is the power of our individual voices joined together that truly has the power to transform the world.  So to those who sing, to those who direct, to those who accompany, and to those who simply nod their heads and hum along, keep those beautiful vibrations coming.  May we may all continue to be inspired by the glories of creation, so that the rocks need never cry out.",
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      "body": "Something interesting has happened this year.  A new divide has been forced upon our society.  While the race debate comes back to the center ring of public discussion, I am noticing a totally different divide.  It is one that has always existed, but that has remained largely unspoken.  It’s not good manners to bring up religion and politics in social settings, and people generally keep certain opinions to themselves.  We have learned to politely avoid discussing our leanings on certain worldview topics, unless in a trusted space of dialogue.  \n\nFor many decades now we have functioned with two totally separate societies living amongst one another peacefully, with the core issue of their disagreement rarely having to come up in the course of day to day business.\nBut now that has changed.  Now we have been forced to raise our flags and declare ourselves.  No longer can we pretend that we are the same as those who stand on the other side of this particular divide.  No longer can we live together harmoniously.  A reckoning is upon us, my friends.  We must acknowledge the divide of which I speak, and we must settle it.  \n\nThe divide is not one of race or religion, or political parties.  It is a divide of credulity.  Who do we believe?  \nTo condense a highly complex situation to a thumbnail, this divide is between those who believe in the official narratives put forth by those in power, and those who do not.  It is between counter-culture and mainstream culture.  Our world is inundated with information, data, and content, and certain leanings or perspectives are codified by institution, language and law.  Whether or not we want to, we end up having to pick a side on many issues.  We end up entrusting somebody with the job of informing us as to what has occured and what it means.\n\nThe political beliefs held by most people are actually a distillation of what they hear from sources that they rely on for information.  This is true in medicine, news, history, and science.  There are countless genres within each discipline, but for the sake of discussion, I am simplifying them into two opposing viewpoints.  Either you trust the people who have claimed the title of authority and expertise, or you don’t.  \n\nIf you do choose to place your trust in such authorities, then you’ve got an easy out for due diligence.  You needn’t trouble yourself with all the research and reading that is usually required to achieve a well-informed perspective, because the experts have already done all that work for you.  You can build your entire notion of the world and its affairs around the assumptions they have led you into, and you do not question or doubt, because it’s settled.  See?  It says right here.  \n\nIf you choose not to believe these mainstream sources, however, you have a much more difficult task.  Because the path to the truth, it turns out, is not short at all, but rather circuitous.  The truth about our world is actually the greatest detective story of all times.  \n\nTo grasp this story, you cannot simply read a few paragraphs of explanation.  Not even just a few books.  The history of power is complex, and even a brief overview of all the relevant people and events could not be contained in a single volume.  Condensing this immense story into a manageable analysis is not the work of a single historian or writer, but rather a compilation of numerous researchers, journalists, and insiders and the work they have published, often at great risk to themselves.\n\nFinding this true story of our world is not easy.  Even once you begin to distrust the so-called authorities, you must then sift through all the alternative narratives, many of which oversimplify issues or make unfounded assumptions, and some of which are actually intentionally misleading.  Some people consider themselves woke to the lies of the system, only to then consume with credulity the first alternative narrative they come across.   There is no shortage of sensationalism floating around, and those who peddle it know what people are thirsty for.  Disinformation is a business.\n\nThat should come as no surprise.  The dynastic rulers of Earth know that a mass awakening is underway, and they are doing everything in their power to slow or stop it.  They have invested heavily in crafty counter-measures, luring the awakening masses into new, seemingly better, but still controlled, narratives.  And in large part, it has worked.  Public opinion can literally be manufactured.  \n\nThe search for the truth is difficult.  There is far more disinformation going around in the counter-culture than solid truth.  To recognize the mainstream system for what it is and reject it is a huge step, but to diligently and meticulously pursue sense-making means taking many steps more, which is much harder.  Anything close to a fully informed perspective is an extraordinary accomplishment.\n\nFor those who choose to look and who have any discernment, the lies of the state are obvious.  The collusion, the corruption, and the criminal mismanagement of funds are all on record.  The idea that these people work for us, that our system of governance exists to serve the people, or that any martially enforced authority is derived from our consent has become increasingly laughable.  We all know how corrupt it is.  The question is, why aren’t we doing anything about it?  \n\nIt’s because of the divide of credulity.  Too many people, whose intellectual, spiritual, and economic might the movement desperately needs, remain credulous of known liars, refusing to even listen when accusations are made by qualified individuals who come with evidence and fact witnesses.  \n\nThe covid event marked the introduction of a new belief system.  Like the belief that terrorist organizations were out to get us because they hate us for our freedoms, a new belief is now being socially engineered.  Suddenly we are expected to believe that prevention of infectious illness must be our number one priority, and that we must radically change our lives as an act of compassion to those whom we might, hypothetically, make sick.  Nobody seemed particularly concerned about these things even just a year ago, but now we are being told that such precautions are just common sense.  And people are going along with it.\n\nBut even those who are going along with it have to feel in their gut that something isn’t right.  We never took such extreme measures in the past because of viruses.  We never did social distancing, forced business closures, or mandated masks.  These ideas were only recently introduced, yet all at once, all around the globe, they were simultaneously enforced.  A concerted effort was made to create a whole new vision and understanding the world.  It can in no way be called an organic process, but rather a top down, compulsory program.  This new belief system is now being systematically uploaded into minds of the public. It has changed all of our lives.\n\nPandemic hysteria has been marketed relentlessly by the mainstream media, and now some reference to it appears on every major website and every service we use.  Every business has something on its walls or floors to pay homage (or demand obedience) to the new rituals.  This is a universal rollout, with governments, corporations, and globalist organizations like the UN all colluding to force these changes down our throats.  If you don’t comply, you’re selfish and dangerous.  If you question the data or science, you’re murdering my grandmother.  If you present contradicting evidence, you are censored.  Many credible doctors and scientists have spoken out about the absurdity of the official pandemic narrative, but companies like Google, Facebook, and YouTube have decided for us that these perspectives are invalid and that we cannot even see them.  How kind of them to save us the trouble of thinking critically and making up our own minds.\n\nOne interesting aspect of this Lock Step/medical martial law agenda is that it brings the divide of credulity into the center of public attention.  You can no longer simply believe what you want and go about your business.  Now, any time you go into public, you must show your colors.  Either you’re wearing that mask or not.  It’s plain for all the eyes and cameras to see.   Are you going along with this, or are you saying no?  \n\nFifteen years ago, you could think whatever you thought about who planned 9-11, but when you went to the store, or went to work, or hung out with acquaintances, you had no idea what they felt about that issue, and it didn’t really matter.  If you were polite, you didn’t bring it up casually.  You lived alongside people who may have felt very differently about history, or about vaccines, or about taxation, but that didn’t affect daily life.  Now that has changed.  Now it’s plain as day who’s drinking from which fountain.  \n\nWe have now been publicly divided into those who are buying into all this and those who aren’t.  We cannot pretend that the friction between these discordant paradigms can be maintained, at least not living as one community.  I have friends who won’t let the kids play together.  Who won’t come over to my house, or let me come to theirs.  Who won’t shake my hand or give me a hug.\n\nMaybe such contrasting belief systems can co-exist, but it seems unlikely.  One side or the other is going to have to prevail, and in a funny way, it’s going to come down to a vote, of sorts.  A vote of credulity.  Who do you believe?  \nHow closely have you scrutinized the institutions in which you have placed your total trust?  It turns out that in these unprecedented times, what each of us believes is of more importance than it has ever been.  We are not just deciding on a small, regional, human endeavors.  We are deciding on the fate of the whole planet.  \n\nWe must choose with great care when deciding who can be trusted to manage our money system, our courts, our health care system and our laws.  Our survival depends on us choosing wisely.  Many great powers are at work in the world, and they seem far more powerful than we feel as individuals, but everything that they are doing requires our consent.  We must withdraw that consent immediately.  We have no time left to wait.  This is the endgame.  \n\nFor those who wish to join the struggle for freedom, or even those who sense that something isn’t right but haven’t made up their minds as to what to believe, we eagerly await your participation in the conversation.  Many great resources exist to catch you up on what has been discovered in the investigation so far.  The conspirators, in their arrogance, have revealed a great deal about their plans as well as their crimes, and we have quite a rap sheet on many of them.  You can make up your own mind about how much of the story you want to explore, and you can devise your own way of participating in the movement. But regardless of how much you know or how you feel about specific issues, as long as you’re striving for the awakening and liberation of humanity, your voice is very much needed.   \n\nFor so long we have been lied to, and it’s time we faced the truth.  Once we face it, collectively, the world will surely change.  Such evil as we now see can never exist in the light.  Once we see the parasites, we remove them immediately.  So let the cleanse begin, my friends.  Let us renew our lives and renew our world.  Think of how much better we could make things!  No better time than now.",
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      "body": "![20200628_232128(1).jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRoZkVKoKVCQ9pT5ni4z9Z6zFgFqpnceEm5hVUwTsEgJq/20200628_232128(1).jpg)\n\nWhat if I told you vaccines are racist?\n\nThe devout anti-racist, who understands that people of color have been systematically oppressed, should know well that social Darwinists and eugenicists from wealthy Anglo-Saxon families in the nineteenth century believed that certain races were inferior and that their populations should be limited through abortion, sterilization, and genocide.  \n\nYet I hear very little about this in the current discussion about race.  If your motive is truly to dismantle systemic racism, then I would think you would be familiar with mass sterilization programs that specifically target people of color.  I would think you would know about the eugenics origins of Planned Parenthood and the ambitions of Margaret Sanger to rid the world of undesirable races.  I would think you would know about the non-consensual sterilization of African women by UN and Gates Foundation vaccine programs. \n\nYet so many of the people making so much noise about the problem of racism are also getting their medical advice from the racist, eugenicist people who have known involvement in horrendous crimes against humanity, mostly against people of the so called third world, along with poor, black, indigenous, and Latino people in the United States.  \n\nThe hypocrisy of the mainstream narrative is embarrassing.  On the left, it’s been particularly noticeable as the George Floyd protests erupted in the middle of a supposed pandemic.  All of the sudden it went from “protesting is killing people,” to “those peaceful protestors have every right to burn down Target and loot small businesses.”\n\nRemember the gun debate?  Only police should have guns, right?  Except now it’s ‘police are racist and corrupt, so we should defund the police.’  Remember the anti-war protests during the Bush administration?  What happened to all of those people once Obama took office and expanded the drone warfare program, killing untold women and children of color, bombing seven African countries?  Remember the Me Too movement?  Believe all women, right?  Except when they accuse Bill Clinton, or Joe Biden.  \n\nNow to be clear, the right is also guilty of this hypocrisy.  Anti-abortion but pro death penalty, fiscally conservative but supporters of the very expensive war industry, etc.  I am not speaking from either side of this overly simplified dichotomy.   I am merely pointing out that if you want to get down to the roots of the problem of systemic oppression, you have to study history.  You have to realize that the people who are running the covid narrative are the same people who run pharmaceuticals, produce GMOs, and steer the educational system from primary to university levels, and they are racist, genocidal, eugenicists to the core.  This is not theory, not conjecture, not fiction.  This is fact.  \n\nMost people know that during the 1800’s a philosophy of European supremacy evolved and began to be clearly articulated, as if it was a matter of science.  This movement drew on the works of such thinkers as Darwin and Malthus, and was further explored by lesser known ‘scientific racists’ as Samuel Morton, Franz Joseph Gall, and Charles Caldwell.  \nAt the height of industrialization and global colonialism, the supremacy of those who operated these enterprises seemed obvious, to themselves.  \n\nThey self-congratulatingly concluded that their genes were superior (for look at what power they wielded!) and that thus it was their responsibility to ensure a future for their progeny, while eliminating from the genepool all of the undesirable races.  Phrenology, blood science, and the very concept of race - all were born from this mode of thinking.  What many people don’t realize is that these racist elites, with their ethnic nationalist philosophies, were never removed from power. They and their cabal have been effectively ruling the industrialized world since the beginning of the twentieth century.  They have expanded their eugenics programs, and they have gotten much better at public relations, to the point where they now operate from behind a veil of secrecy, masquerading as philanthropists.  Yet clearly they are still at their old tricks, designing as many ways as they can to reduce the population, particularly of its browner constituents. \n\nRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a very strong voice in the condemnation of this criminal, eugenicist enterprise that masquerades as philanthropy and medicine.  He states:\n\n“In 2014, the GatesFoundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls.\"\n\nhttps://www.fort-russ.com/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-exposes-bill-gates-vaccine-dictatorship-plan-cites-gates-twisted-messiah-complex/\n\nSterilization of the so-called undesirable races has also occurred in our own country.  In fact, you might say that the practice was pioneered here, in days when whole segments of the population existed without representation or voice, and crimes against them were routinely ignored by mainstream society.  The following is an excerpt from an excellent article, outlining the history of non-consensual sterilization in the United States.\n\n“Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find                                                       examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century. Driven by prejudiced notions of science and social control, these programs informed policies on immigration and segregation.\n\n\"As historian William Deverell explains in a piece discussing the “Asexualization Acts” that led to the sterilization of more than 20,000 California men and women, “If you are sterilizing someone, you are saying, if not to them directly, ‘Your possible progeny are inassimilable, and we choose not to deal with that.’”\n\n\"According to Andrea Estrada at UC Santa Barbara, forced sterilization was particularly rampant in California (the state’s eugenics program even inspired the Nazis):\n\n\"Beginning in 1909 and continuing for 70 years, California led the country in the number of sterilization procedures performed on men and women, often without their full knowledge and consent. Approximately 20,000 sterilizations took place in state institutions. (from The UC Santa Barbara Current)\n\n\"Relf v. Weinberger: Mary Alice and Minnie Relf, poor African American sisters from Alabama, were sterilized at the ages of 14 and 12. Their mother, who was illiterate, had signed an “X” on a piece of paper she believed gave permission for her daughters, who were both mentally disabled, to receive birth control shots. In 1974, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Relf sisters, revealing that 100,000 to 150,000 poor people were being sterilized each year under federally-funded programs.\"\n\nhttps://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/\n\n\n\nThe poster child of modern efforts to implement eugenics programs is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which should come as no surprise, since Gates’ father was a known eugenicist, back when they still used that word.  (The concept declined in popularity after Hitler tried his hand at it.)  Along with maiming and killing unsuspecting women in India, the Gates Foundation has also been embroiled in many scandals in Africa.\n\n“In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a phase 3 trial of GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects, including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions, to 1,048 of the 5,949 children.\nDuring Gates’ 2002 MenAfriVac campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates’ operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Approximately 50 of the 500 children vaccinated developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for the drug makers.” Nelson Mandela’s former senior economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philanthropic practices as “ruthless and immoral.”\n\nhttps://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/\n\n\nGates is but a front man of the larger organization, and the effort to bring about sterilization and population reduction is many-fold.  One organization clearly tied to this agenda is the UN, and its affiliated organizations like the WHO.\n\n“In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found a sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade.  Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines.\n\nhttps://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/\n\nIf you can’t understand why so many people are anti-vaccine, then I recommend you look into the special vaccine injury compensation court that was set up specifically to deal with all the negative side-effects that the vaccine industry admittedly causes.  It is not a theory that vaccines cause injury, but rather a well-documented historical fact.\nhttps://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html\n\n\"Now, a new study confirms that the FDA has taken active measures to suppress critical data about Gardasil and keep the public ignorant of its dangerous side effects.\n\n\"As the evidence against the drug piles up, more and more young and otherwise healthy women are showing up with ovarian failure, amenorrhea, and infertility after being given Gardasil. Now a study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health has analyzed reams of data on Gardasil. The data was gleaned by comparing recipients of the HPV vaccine with a control group and by looking at pregnancy outcomes.\n\n\"The study is data analysis entitled, 'A lowered probability of pregnancy in females in the USA aged 25 who received a human papillomavirus vaccine injection.' The research considered over 8 million cases of women ages 25 to 29 between 2007 and 2014. It concludes that rates of conception would have decreased by 2 million had the women in the study taken the HPV vaccine.\n\n\"The FDA is cooperating with Merck, by skipping important safeguards to the process of approval. The FDA gave Merck’s application a priority review in order to speed the approval process. As of now, the approval date is set for October 2018.\"\n\nhttps://www.healthscamsexposed.com/2018/07/the-hpv-vaccine-is-sterilizing-american-girls/\n\n\nI am not the kind of person who wants to turn every conversation into a debate about racism, but since so many well-meaning people seem to favor this approach, let’s go there.  Let’s look deeply at the issue.  Many people who say they are anti-racist are also pro-vaccine, which completely ignores the history of the vaccine industry and the racist, eugenicist people who run it.  \n\nSo much energy is wasted fighting ignorant confederate flag waving nobodies whose racism affects very few people, while nobody seems to want to go after the big players, whose racism actually has a devastating effect on our world.  Arrest Bill Gates.  Arrest Hillary Clinton.  Arrest George Bush.  Arrest Henry Kissinger.  Arrest John Podesta.  Arrest Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg Gotha.  Arrest the real criminals first, and then we can argue about syrup bottles and tactless tweets later.  \n\nIf you aren’t ready to accept that systemic racism goes all the way to to the top, implicating even the candidates you support, then please back off with all the virtue signaling.  It isn’t helping.  What would help would be a mass movement to arrest known criminals.  It would also help if people started reading the ingredients of vaccines, and thus stopped taking them (generally inevitable after reading the inserts.)  We are literally paying these people to poison us, and we should cut that out.  \n\nWe could also end the drug war, which also has its origins in racist agendas.  Of course, vaccines and drug laws aren’t just being used against people of color, even though they are disproportionally affected.  The point is that we are all under attack.  The elites who rule the world are indeed racists, but they plan to enslave and/or kill us all, regardless of race.  This will be a whole lot easier to do if we are all fighting with each other over wedge issues.  So less of that, please, and more investigations into corrupt companies, organizations and individuals.  If we focus our righteous indignation at the right people, we could quickly take down institutional oppression, and then we can only imagine how much better the world could become.",
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This implies that the evils of the world come from our own hearts, not from some outside entity, and they spread according to how often we collectively create them.  To some extent, the most horrible evils of the world today are in fact our fault, or at least they are our responsibility.  They arise because we are not good enough, and because we do not tell the truth.  \n\nI recently read The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins, a book that describes how international interests used financial machinations to entrap various third-world countries with debt.  Perkins was instrumental in developing this new imperial tactic, and he helped his employers (about whom we know little) to modernize and thus colonize many developing nations, from Indonesia, Panama, and Ecuador to Columbia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.  Perkins helped develop economic forecasts and models that showed the great prosperity that the target countries would supposedly reap from entering into predatory lending arrangements with private financial institutions.  He knew the truth; their business partners would be given all the contracts to modernize and industrialize the host nation, and thus would be making all the money, while the toll of the debt would be taken out on the poorest citizens and the environment.\n\nThroughout his career Perkins struggled with his conscience, and eventually he decided that he had to come clean.  He knew that publishing a tell-all book about the industry was very risky, but he could stay silent no longer.   \n\nStaying silent while evil occurs around us is a sure path to horrifically despotic dictatorships.  Totalitarianism doesn’t announce itself as such; it hides behind the veil of legitimacy, using corporations, governments, and social institutions to carry forward agendas that purport noble intentions, but that inevitably result in such evils as engineered poverty, environmental degradation, concentration camps, war, and genocide.  \n\nThe public in the first world, although largely misinformed and distracted, is still generally aware of military-industrial-economic colonialism, but people tend to go along with it, consenting incrementally, like frogs in a slowly warming pot.  It’s especially easy to look the other way when the spoils are being shared.  Cars, fast food, shopping malls, and on-demand entertainment are all privileges afforded to the consumer class of the imperial system, and the last seventy years or so have been a very sobering barometer of how willing good people are to turn a blind eye to suffering that takes place far away as long as they have their needs and wants met.  \n\nFrom Vietnam to Afghanistan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Yemen, Libya… all over the world, our dollars are at work.  Evil people are committing war crimes, and we, who are mostly good people, are doing nothing.    The unofficial, illegal wars tend to happen far away, but we are also affected here at home, where mass surveillance, police brutality, and the erosion of due process and free speech have all been normalized.   By accepting these things as normal, we are creating fascism.  \nIt’s time we face the truth, my friends.  We have very little time left, and if we have any hope of turning things around, it’s time we admit that our system is out of control, and that we are heading fast towards a cliff.  Honest dialogue is our best bet, but we have to get past our initial defensive response that says it could never happen.  It’s too crazy.  Too much like a movie.  Too sci-fi.  Too dystopian.  \n\nBut it is happening.  We need to admit to ourselves that we have been lied to, and that institutions we have long trusted have become corrupted.  Tomes of research on how exactly this was accomplished and by whom have been painstakingly assembled over the decades, and anyone with doubts can find out for himself simply by examining the relevant literature.  We must fully understand and accept that a great many of the so-called conspiracy theories are in fact true, and irrefutably so.  \n\nUltimately, we must focus on solutions.  We can’t properly develop a strategy without a clear sense of the forces working against us, so we must study the relevant history and educate ourselves as to how the military and financial dictatorship has been implemented.  We must avoid the traps of identity politics or petty arguments over details within various investigations, and we shouldn’t get lost in endless analysis of how exactly it was done.  It was done.  This is where we’re at.  \n\nNow the focus must be on rebuilding social institutions on a foundation of liberty, transparency, and non-aggression.  No organizational body, be it private or government, is legitimate if it violates consent or uses violence to force people into compliance.  Nor can any institution existing to serve the public good be allowed to operate in secrecy, without oversight or censure.  This should be perfectly obvious to anyone who thinks it through, but the world was deeply traumatized by the first half of the twentieth century, and the introduction of global, industrial conflict scared people into thinking secrecy and espionage were acceptable.  \n\nThe emergence of secret agencies like the OSS or the CIA seemed a necessary evil, and as long as they were out there spying on bad guys and thwarting attempts to attack us, the good guys, the American public didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.\n\nIn fact, people came to celebrate the notion.  James Bond and Mission Impossible became long running franchises, always depicting good guy spies stopping evil plots for world domination or destruction.  A key element of their success, of course, was that they were allowed to operate in secrecy, to lie, and of course, to kill whomever they needed to.  In the name of something greater, this seems reasonable.\n\nThe irony of it is that evil organizations like the ones Bond was always fighting are in fact in control of the intelligence communities. The public was led to believe that the CIA or MI6 was protecting them from evil geniuses (or foreign governments) with plans of world domination, but the truth is that these agencies were created to support just such a plan.  \n\nFortunately, the information age has brought much unprecedented disclosure, both from declassified programs and from leaks.  We now know a great deal about what has been done, and we can easily identify some of the key players and the organizations they created.  They have gotten away with so much, but we can still stop them.  We can stop them because they are only able to do what they are doing through us. \n\nIt is important to understand the core philosophical difference between fair, socially enforced decency (natural law) and agenda-driven political power that is backed by violence (tyranny). \n \nNatural law is innate, and it is practiced by nearly every human society, as well as embodied in most religions, in some variation of the golden rule.  Non-aggression is the bedrock principle from which all other laws are derived.  Do not harm others.  Don’t steal, and don’t hurt people.  Treat people with respect.  Most people agree with this, yet many fail to realize that the social institutions that are supposed to serve them are actually funding themselves via coercion, both at home (taxation) and abroad (colonial aggression).  \n\nThe truth is, not even the government has the right to initiate violence.  Police and military can never be justifiably deployed unless it is against someone who has broken the peace, be it by through violence, theft or fraud.  Unless you violate this natural law, they don’t have any right to bother you about anything.  The government is not in charge of the citizens.  Government is merely a service, and it has no right to fine or arrest anyone who is keeping the peace.  \n\nPublic programs must not permitted to fund themselves through taxation; only through community agreements and voluntary, informed contracts.  If the service being provided is in demand, people will pay for it.  If people choose not to pay, they needn’t be taken to court or jailed; they may simply be ineligible for those or other services. Courts and jails are for real criminals, those who are violent or who steal and defraud.  Any other use of the judicial system (ordinances, statutes, licensing laws, any punishment of victimless crimes) is unacceptable.  It is a subversion of justice.\n\nTo implement such changes would upend nearly every major institution humans have created, but it would not be the death of our civilization.  It would ultimately be a rebirth, a leveling up, a shift to another phase of evolution.  How such changes might be brought about will be a very long (generations long, even) conversation, with many diverse voices contributing different ideas and solutions to different challenges, but the internet age allows us to collaborate in ways that were never before possible.  So all that’s needed now is for more people to join the conversation.  \n\nAs our collective efforts to design new systems become more coherent, more and more people will drop out of the antiquated political system and join instead the conversation about what we can actually do now, together.  Decentralized, open source, collaborative efforts will result in the evolution of new social systems, where functions formerly served by governments will be provided through cooperative, consensual programs that have no power to imprison peaceful people or extort the population for money.  \n\nThe answer to our social problems isn’t more laws, more government agencies, more guns pointed at the people we don’t like.  The answer to fascism is recognition and declaration of the truth: It’s never okay to initiate harm against others.  The individual is sovereign.  Everyone is free to do anything they want so long as they don’t cause others harm.  Any violation of this truth must be called out and resisted.  Staying silent while governments infringe on our freedoms is a one-way ticket for us all to the death camps.  This is not hyperbole, and it is no joke.  We are in a very dangerous situation, and only the most monumental and heroic effort on all of our parts is going to turn this around.  \n\n\nSo join me, my friends, in the conversation about how we could do things differently, and how we can solve complex social and infrastructure problems without relying on authoritarian systems of initiatory force.  It’s not an easy puzzle to solve, so we need every great mind out there to pitch in.  What will your contribution be?",
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Tim’s lingering lead notes really give the song a dramatic effect.  His brief solo is the perfect bridge to the suddenly subdued final verse.  “Innocent kiss, black magic bliss…”\n\nAnd I love the words in the chorus. “Let’s not forget these early days, remember we begin the same.  We lose our way in fear and hate, oh joy begin.”\n\nCan’t Stop\nClassic DMB song, with a groovy riff to start off, and a crashing crescendo of horns when the chorus hits.  Always loving those girls, Dave is makes it pretty plain that he just can’t stop.  As long as you got that love, your sound’s gonna show it.  For fans who like the older music, this one has that feel.  Sounds and styles evolve, but never lose sight of your roots!\n\nHere On Out\nA slow, acoustic love song, with a beautiful melody and sweet message to that one he so loves.  Some nice orchestration compliments the latter verses, and Dave’s slow falsetto on the ending bridge is the most memorable part of the song.  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Philosophical and poetic. “God is troubling when you consider believers that would welcome the end of the world.”\n\nThe chorus has a very catchy melody, and this song stays in my head more than any of the others.  “Ashes, stardust, look at us, crawling out the mud.  Let’s go around the block, we make the most before the jig is up.”\n\nButch on the keys, Jeff Coffin on the sax, nice solo before final verse.\n\n“On the sidewalk the dandelion is reaching up towards the sun.”  I love the dandelion imagery, symbolizing (for me anyway) the new paradigm emerging from out of the rubble of the old.\n\nCome On Come On\nA slower love song.  Reminiscent of Everyday.  Knowing Dave, it’s likely a reference to cunnilingus. Pretty, but not the most exciting song on the album.  \n\nDo You Remember\nA nice ditty, with some fancy drum work by Carter, and a good danceable beat.  Horns and slide guitar (plus some synthesized sounds, it would seem) almost give it an island sound in places.  Classic theme of indulging in nature and soaking in all the goodness of life kind of lyrics.  Summer of Love, baby.  “The color of water and the color of sunlight is pouring all over us.”\n\nCome Tomorrow\nA great choice for the title track.  This song contains the strongest and clearest message:  “Let the children run the show,” he says.  Our world is a mess, and the children, whose minds are yet unfettered by a life of being conditioned to our culture, have a better chance of coming up with solutions than we do.  They will inherit this world, so we should give them a chance to do something beautiful with it. “Come tomorrow we get everything, so as long we survive today, come tomorrow we gonna find a way.”\n\n“We should let the children lead the way,” he says.  You can’t get more direct than that.  Hear hear, Dave!  \nThis song is a good representative of Dave’s emerging style.  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The truth is that we make the world around us with with our thoughts. &nbsp;Or maybe we are making someone else's thoughts into reality, but our thoughts about their vision, our movements, our participation, is required for the society we have to exist. &nbsp;When we begin to see how others have crafted stories and rituals to direct our creative energy towards their agendas, we also see how we can redirect our awareness towards goals of our own choosing. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>This is the great work. &nbsp;Reclaiming our liberty is more than just a notion; it is a change in our lifestyle. &nbsp;It is up to us to examine ourselves and seek out ways that our thoughts and actions are contributing to the problem, and to redirect ourselves strategically towards solutions. &nbsp;There is no set procedure for making our world better. &nbsp;We each must find a way to contribute what we can. &nbsp;It all begins with our thoughts. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>So what are we thinking about? &nbsp;We have no shortage of sensational stories going around, and it seems to me that lots of folks have their hackles up over something. &nbsp;After a pretty long time of being an avid consumer of alternative media, I've spent way less time keeping up with everything in recent months. &nbsp;But even in my relative isolation, I can't help but get wind of certain stories making the rounds.</p>\n<p>One that I had a good laugh about was Roseanne, who, apparently had a new show on the air. &nbsp;(Who knew?) &nbsp;<em>Had </em>a show, I say, &nbsp;because I guess <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/roseanne-apologizes-for-planet-of-the-apes-tweet-about-obama-aide-jarrett.html\">she got cancelled for saying something that was construed as racist</a>. &nbsp;My search for the exact quote was not fruitful, but I gathered that it primarily had to do with a suggesting this politician looked like she was from Planet of the Apes. Either way, it was some derogatory remark that passed through Roseanne's head, and, thanks to Twitter, the whole world got to know about it. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>And spend a lot of time talking about it. &nbsp;Seems a bit silly, really. &nbsp;We've got some serious problems we should be addressing, and we have this incredible technology that allows us to talk to each other, anyone to anyone, all around the world. &nbsp;We should be making some serious headway here in our quest to solve major societal problems. &nbsp;Are we using our time, technology, and ability to converse wisely? &nbsp;We have this enormous power, to topple people's reputations and careers for breaking some kind of social contract. &nbsp;We have a collective voice and that voice has power. &nbsp;And who are we going after with it? &nbsp;In many generations to come, how meaningful will the things we invested our time and effort into seem? &nbsp;</p>\n<p>Not to say anything about the issues involved in Roseanne's case (freedom of speech, racism, censorship, television politics)... though I could say plenty. &nbsp;Just the fact that it's costing so many Americans so much of their time is unfortunate, when it feels like we have much bigger problems than celebrities saying mean things.</p>\n<p>On another topic, I've been seeing lots of coverage of <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/may/04/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-in-pictures\">lava flows in Hawaii</a>, where the mountain has been spewing out some liquid hot rock in earnest. &nbsp;It's neat to watch videos of it, though I know it's also an inconvenience and &nbsp;even a danger at times to people who live there. &nbsp;Mostly Hawaiians respect Pele and stand aside while she flows. The Earth does mighty things, and we are but small boats on an enormous ocean, where even our land masses float on an ocean of lava. &nbsp;I often wonder about what is at the center of all that lava. &nbsp;They say it's just more, much hotter lava, but it's to figure that as anything but a theory, given as no one's been in there to confirm. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/s571886d9/hawaii-volcano-eruption-kilauea-lava-flow-1527165224.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/41g9jx8gt/3909.jpg\" width=\"1010\" height=\"696\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/f11gvj6lp/5472.jpg\" width=\"1010\" height=\"606\"/></p>\n<p>Some people push the hollow earth theory, which I find interesting, though not extremely compelling. &nbsp;I'd say the most interesting piece of that puzzle is Jules Vern, who either designed (or had access to some one else's designs) of submarine and rocket technology in the 1800s. &nbsp;The man seemed to know some stuff that ordinary people do not, so we have to wonder what kind of research led him to write Journey to the Center of the Earth...</p>\n<p>What else? &nbsp;Whole Foods<a href=\"https://www.foodandwine.com/news/whole-foods-gmo-labeling-policy\"> backed out of their promised requirement to label GMO foods</a>. &nbsp;This story has been around for a while, but recent developments have brought it back to our attention. &nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.gmo.news/2017-06-21-rumor-jeff-bezos-to-reverse-whole-foods-promise-to-label-gmos-on-everything-by-2018.html\">I found several articles predicting that this would happen</a> as soon as they heard that Amazon was buying Whole Foods. &nbsp;Rumors, they claimed, were already circulating that Whole Foods would reverse the decision to require labeling, as far back as year ago. &nbsp;&nbsp;Does this change in policy have anything to do with Whole Foods being purchased by Amazon? Probably. &nbsp;Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, which frequently puts out <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/avoiding-gmos-isnt-just-anti-science-its-immoral/2017/12/27/fc773022-ea83-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?utm_term=.5634841afeac\">GMO apologist propaganda</a>. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>Bezos was even reported to have stated that that they don't need to label GMO's because \"they're safe,\" but I can't find the original source for that quote, so who knows if it's true. &nbsp;This claim seems to have first appeared on Your News Wire, which is known to disseminate unsubstantiated info. &nbsp;(It's hard for me to know with some of these sites, as so many of them have been caught putting out news that's inaccurate, misleading, or downright made up, but then again, they often report on real things that are worth knowing about but that are being ignored by big media outlets. Thus it's not so simple as assuming that because it's on Your News Wire or Natural News that it is definitely false, but one certainly can't assume that everything they post is true, either. &nbsp;Discretion is the name of the game in this era of internet news.)</p>\n<p>Back to Whole Foods - I can't say I'm surprised. &nbsp;Whole Foods is generally unimpressive, when it comes to high quality, organic food. &nbsp;They have some good brands that you won't find at the usual food stores, but compared to local food coops, or even another chain like Natural Grocer, Whole Foods is corporate af, and they sell all sorts of green-washed crap being peddled by big food distributors who want to cash in on the craze without having to actually source quality and abide by ethical health standards. &nbsp;If Whole Foods went out of business because people started going to coops or signing up for more CSAs, I wouldn't shed a single tear. &nbsp;Shop local folks.</p>\n<p>Next. &nbsp;I've been seeing lots of stories about immigrant children being separated from their families and held in concentration camps. &nbsp;I can't say I'm the least bit surprised, of course. &nbsp;America's descent into overt fascism has been unfolding throughout my adult lifetime, and every time a new benchmark is reached, I just shake my head and sigh. &nbsp;I even heard a tale about a detention center in a former Walmart, which conspiracy folks have been warning us about for years. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>Now it's real, and when <a href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-merkley-immigration-detention-center_us_5b149d32e4b010565aad1076\">Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tried to gain entrance to such a facility</a>, he <a href=\"http://theantimedia.com/jeff-merkley-immigrant-detention-center-walmart/\">had the cops called on him</a>. &nbsp;Other reports include descriptions of <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893/aclu-report-detained-immigrant-children-subjected-to-widespread-abuse-by-officia\">all manner of abuses</a>, including threats of sexual abuse and children being kept in kennels. &nbsp;One photo of <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5\">detained children sleeping in a kennel</a> recently made the rounds, and even though it is four years old, it shows what kind of a situation we are dealing with. &nbsp;(It also shows that this kind of thing has been going on for a long time... Just imagine if we had pictures from Indian Residential Schools or the Japanese concentration camps from WWII...)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/bhfj5olvh/5b0dafa31ae66245008b4885-960-480.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p>Immigration is a very divisive issue. &nbsp;Even in the liberty movement, which is decidedly anti-government, we have major disagreements about borders and immigration. &nbsp;I was surprised by how many anarchists are in favor of protecting borders. &nbsp;At Anarchapulco this year, Larken Rose debated Lauren Southern about the matter, and I expected the crowd to be universally in support of Larken's position (no borders, no walls), but I was wrong. &nbsp;A whole lot of people were of the opinion that we have to do something to protect the first world from the flood of desperate people clamoring to get access to our infrastructure. &nbsp;It's kind of like the lifeboats after the Titanic sank. &nbsp;Even though there were still people alive in the ocean, screaming, the lifeboats couldn't go over to help them, even if they had room, because they would simply be swamped with people trying to climb in and then everyone would drown. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>After the debate, I found that most of the people in favor of controlling immigration were European, and from one friend in particular I learned that there is a good reason for this. &nbsp;Occasionally I see stories go by about rapes and other crimes going on in Europe, but from him I learned that the situation is far worse than major news media outlets let on. &nbsp;I haven't looked really deeply into it, but from what he described, nice communities all over Europe are having terror unleashed on them from immigrant communities, in the form of violence, theft, and rape. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>What appears to be going on (at the 3d chess game level) is that Europe is being destabilized, in part by this flood of immigration. &nbsp;Dumping a bunch of people whose lives have been destroyed by imperialism and war, right in the heart of the empire that overswept them, is a formula for trouble. &nbsp;Just the kind of trouble that the conspirators who run our society want. &nbsp;Get the citizens to be scared of crime and desperate for more police, more laws, more checkpoints. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>To me, it doesn't matter how you slice it. &nbsp;Taking kids away from their parents (except of course in cases of severe abuse) is not okay. &nbsp;Locking children in cages? &nbsp;Also not okay. &nbsp;But if you believe in government, if you &nbsp;believe that some should have the right to wield this kind of power over us or others, then you have asked for this. &nbsp;&nbsp;Horrible abuses can quickly become normalized within military/police/border guard culture, and unless the people resist this, it will become normal to us too. We are witnessing it. &nbsp;&nbsp;Common folks duck their heads and keep walking while the police choke or taze someone to death, or <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQQ9xOhuFrk\">haul them off for some minor infraction</a>. &nbsp;Or for no infraction at all. &nbsp;We're already there, folks. &nbsp;Are we going to continue down this path, just to see how far it can go? &nbsp;</p>\n<p>The final story I'd like to discuss today really made the rounds yesterday, on the anniversary of the event itself, which took place fourteen years ago. &nbsp;I'm talking, of course, about <a href=\"http://allthatsinteresting.com/marvin-heemeyer-killdozer\">Killdozer</a>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/y8ols1wm5/killdozer.jpg\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\"/></p>\n<p>Marvin Heemeyer owned a muffler shop in Granby Colorado, but a construction project next to him blocked his access. &nbsp;He bought the dozer so that he could carve his own road, after the one he was using for his shop was blocked by the construction. &nbsp;The city denied his permit, and when the construction project cut off his sewer line somehow, the city then decided to fine him for code violation. &nbsp;Rather than just give up and believe the old saying that you can't fight city hall, he decided to encase his bulldozer in armor and destroy city hall.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>It took him a year and half of preparation (the man really held a grudge), but once he was finished, he drove it right on down to city hall and smashed up the building. &nbsp;He then went on to destroy twelve other buildings, all of them strategically. &nbsp;He targeted people he believed had wronged him during the course of the dispute, including the former mayor's house and the office of a newspaper that had written an editorial against him. &nbsp;The police tried all they could to stop him, but his dozer was bullet proof, and it knocked away even heavy construction equipment that was brought in to block his path. &nbsp;In spite of all the destruction, no one was hurt or killed during the rampage, except Heemeyer himself. &nbsp;Once the dozer got stuck, Marvin shot himself, which was probably his plan all along. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>I share this story with mixed feelings. &nbsp;I don't condone the use of violence or revenge, and while Heemeyer may have been wronged, he wasn't physically attacked by anyone. &nbsp;His property and his livelihood had been attacked, so perhaps we could say that he was only acting in kind, fighting back against stronger, better connected opponents who were sweeping him aside as if he didn't matter. &nbsp;I don't know all the details, so I'm reluctant to call the man a hero, but what he did took courage and conviction. &nbsp;Something about the idea of the underdog standing up and fighting, even if he knows he can't win, is compelling. &nbsp;&nbsp;When someone is being pushed around by bullies who think that their victim is powerless to fight back, but suddenly that victim steps in wallops them good, there's something satisfying about that. &nbsp;The degree to which that retaliation is justified depends on a lot, and is often relative to who you ask. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>I once saw a (real) video where this girl was just laying into her boyfriend outside of a club. &nbsp;Punching him over and over again, even when he tried to get away from her. &nbsp;Punching him hard, too. &nbsp;Eventually he just socked her, laying her out cold. &nbsp;I am not an advocate of violence, especially by men against women. &nbsp;Still, the fact is, if you use violence against someone else, you're inviting it back to yourself, regardless of your gender. &nbsp;Did that girl deserve it? &nbsp;I don't know, but I think she got a little taste of how the world works that night. &nbsp;Do people deserve to get stung for bumping into a wasp nest? &nbsp;Maybe not, but you better expect that those wasps are going to sting. &nbsp;Did Granby City Hall deserve to be crushed because of the council's decisions regarding Heemeyer? &nbsp;Again, I don't know, but we see what happens when people are pushed too far. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>So that's all for my thoughts on the world as it flies by. &nbsp;We are charging full speed ahead towards whatever future we end up collectively creating. &nbsp;It's easy for that future to appear dire, with all that's going wrong with the world, but one thing's for sure - it won't be boring. &nbsp;See you along the way there!</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><em>(I took none of the photos in this article. &nbsp;Thanks internet!)</em></p>\n</html>",
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src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/hk6x13im5/IMG_1595.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>At the lowest end of this staircase down the southwest is the Grand Canyon, with it's mile deep gorge surrounded by a vast canyon that stretches from horizon to horizon. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/d6312ozwt/DSCF3791.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Both Bryce and Grand Canyon are beautiful parks, but in between them is Zion, which is by far my favorite park in the west. &nbsp;Zion is, in fact, one of my favorite places on the planet. &nbsp;With dramatic drops into the canyon of the Virgin River, Zion eventually becomes a wide valley surrounded by towering stone cliffs. &nbsp;When inside of the park it feels like one surrounded by mountains, but none of the peaks are considered mountains. &nbsp;When you see the park from the sky you see why. &nbsp;Once out of the canyon, the land is then flat all around. &nbsp;Only the major drop in elevation to get to the floor of the valley produces the illusion of mountains on all sides. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/50gdrb9kt/HPIM0042.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/8lc9a03od/HPIM2090.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/j70pzxev1/DSCN0537.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>All the same, the walls of the canyons tower over you as you ride the Zion shuttle up into the valley. &nbsp;Zion is a large park, but the most visited area follows the Virgin River up from the town of Springdale, all the way back to the narrows, where the only way to continue is on foot, in the river. &nbsp;Hiking the narrows is one of the most amazing experiences Zion has to offer. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/o6tktxkrh/DSCN0557.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>At the start of this hike, the river is wider and the walls less severe. &nbsp;The farther in you go, the steeper and higher the walls get, and the narrower the river. &nbsp;At times you are standing between walls two thousand feet tall, so close together that two people can reach out and hold hands while touching opposite walls with their other hands. &nbsp;Several tributary canyons offer side trips excursions, often with waterfalls. &nbsp;You can spend all day hiking up the narrows and not reach the end. &nbsp;In fact, lots of people hike in from the top, taking two to three days to make the entire journey, camping in the canyon wherever they find a decent spot.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/wp30ydtvx/IMG_0914.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/srkcmyh3h/IMG_0913.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/u3xwua3gd/HPIM2075.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>Angel's Landing is another incredible hike. &nbsp;It's not the highest point in the park, but it's got one of the best views, and the hike there is exhilarating. &nbsp;First you climb up a sheer wall on a switchback trail, and then you have hike into a slot in the stone wall, a small pass known as Refrigerator Canyon. &nbsp;Once inside, one walks along a trail of trees and shrubs, cooled by a fresh breeze that flows through the canyon, which seldom sees sun.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/i5vvww8fx/HPIM2739.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>Then you get to Walter's Wiggles, an impressive feat of engineering that leads you on the final steep ascent up to the rim of the canyon. &nbsp;Appropriately named, the wiggles zag back and forth some twenty times, with only short runs before the switchback. &nbsp;It's a tough climb and it leaves you exhausted. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/exvzxn8zx/a9b94752ba9751db7cdc4e6a4ea78dc2--utah-vacation-zion-national-pa.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"350\"/></p>\n<p>At the top of Walter's Wiggles one has a great view of the park, and for the first time, a view of what makes Angel's Landing so remarkable. &nbsp;Sticking out from the canyon wall is a narrow spine of rock that dips down and then climbs up again, rather steeply, to a promontory point that looks out over the big bend in the Virgin River. &nbsp;(In fact, the formation that is Angel's Landing is what causes the River to make its big bend, around the base of the landing.)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/6grw8wubx/HPIM2747.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/xrd7gz2fh/P3220068.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>For many people, this is the end of the line. &nbsp;To get to top of Angels landing, you must ascend this narrow rocky ridge. &nbsp;Even from the viewpoint on the canyon wall you can see that the pathway atop the ridge line is narrow, but not until you get out onto it (if you so choose to do so) do you really get to see how narrow it actually is. &nbsp;In places you are scrambling over rocks no wider than four feet, with a thousand foot drop on either side. &nbsp;It's nothing too technical, but the psychological effect is huge, and many people cling to the rocks for dear life, moving along a very slow and careful pace. &nbsp;Especially on the final climb, which involves some steep climbs, though there are chains anchored into the rock to help in tough places.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/wb6acmeml/DSCN0540.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Once arriving at the precipice, the views are unbeatable. &nbsp;One has something like a 325 degree view, with the Virgin River sparkling below in the sun, the green belt of life that follows its course also glistening with the fluttering cottonwood leaves. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/ysdg6hood/DSCN0543.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/xeltas4q5/IMG_1048.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/lbljkgab1/DSCN0541.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>Another really cool hike in Zion is called the Subway, so named because of the way the creek cut its way through the rocks in almost a tube-like fashion. &nbsp;This hike is much more technical, and requires a permit so that too many people don't crowd into the narrow subway tunnels at once. &nbsp;The only way to make it through is to have climbing gear (for certain repels) and a dry suit for the numerous swims. &nbsp;In places the canyon is narrow with steep walls, with water permanently trapped in the lower areas. &nbsp;This water is often over your head, and being so far down in the canyon, it receives practically no direct sunlight, ever. &nbsp;So needless to say, its freezing. &nbsp;Even with the dry suit, it was chillingly cold to plunge and swim across, pushing our waterproof backpack ahead of us. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/kn7n4857x/IMG_0995.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/lgk8x165p/HPIM0121.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/5v2xd4jxp/IMG_0970.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/ygvztb83x/IMG_0993.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/kzz1ag5i5/IMG_0964.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/439yi5fzh/HPIM0123.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>There are numerous other hikes to take through Zion. &nbsp;The west end is basically another park entirely, with far fewer people, and quite a bit more wilderness. &nbsp;Once my dad and I did an grand trek across the park, from the Virgin River valley all the way to the west end. &nbsp;It started with us driving way up into the higher elevation in the west end of the park, leaving the car, and then taking our bikes down the way we came in, to get back to the highway. &nbsp;We did this trip specifically for the epic bike ride. &nbsp;Fifteen miles of entirely downhill riding, with views like you wouldn't believe. &nbsp;It was so fun. &nbsp;We could get going so fast, and it seemed like the downhill ride would never end. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/d0v4z1pf1/HPIM0017.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>When it finally did we then had about a four mile ride back up to the main part of the park, on a main road. &nbsp;This entirely uphill ride was less fun, but still worth it. &nbsp;My dad was living in Springdale at the time, so we rode straight back to his house, with plans to head back for the car tomorrow. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/tpwkulyrh/HPIM0012.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/rlc7tj4ul/HPIM0018.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>This would be another great day. &nbsp;It was a twelve mile hike across the wildest part of the park, so we equipped ourselves with plenty of food and water and started early. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/em9y74vgd/IMG_0791.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/72hbojbil/HPIM0033.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>The hike was amazing, but it took longer than we thought. &nbsp;When it started getting dark, we began to wonder if perhaps we should have brought flashlights. &nbsp;Or coats. &nbsp;Thankfully it was a full moon, and watching it rise over the desert landscape was exquisitely &nbsp;beautiful. &nbsp;The moon provided us enough illumination to see, and we kept our pace as well as we could. &nbsp;By the time we finally got to the car we were getting pretty cold, and it wasn't until we got out back at the house that it dawned on us how tired out we were. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/5ibj6w47x/HPIM2099.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/iina348q5/IMG_0820.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/gn0ybelf1/HPIM0047.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>The west end offers many other great hikes, but I won't go into any more details about that. &nbsp;If you haven't been to Zion, I highly recommend it. &nbsp;It's definitely one of the most beautiful parks in this country, right up there with Yellowstone and Smokey Mountains. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/v13vjvswt/HPIM0003.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/kzz1aefrx/IMG_0831.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/j862fewe5/HPIM2734.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/72hbou919/HPIM2723.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/bbm1r04kt/HPIM2796.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/tm2av8zkd/HPIM2780.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>Springdale is also a beautiful place. &nbsp;My dad had a great spot, only a few hundred yards from the Virgin River, and the property had some great shade trees and lots of fruit and walnuts growing. &nbsp;We could bike or walk to the park from his place, and we were also close enough to walk just about anywhere in town. &nbsp;</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/a47nf7n65/HPIM0002.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/bs6stnqp9/IMG_0771.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"/></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s20.postimg.cc/gqub854rx/HPIM2115.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"/></p>\n<p>Once Phillip and I did a pretty wild canoe ride down the Virgin, which wasn't roaring, but rather was low. &nbsp;This made for lots of rocks and bumps. &nbsp;In places the water was flowing enough to make for some thrilling descents, but mostly it was just jarring. &nbsp;Still, a great adventure.</p>\n<p><img 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