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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 9, 2008 - 11:11pm PT
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1985: new job; Nowhere in the U.S.
I'm at a party and it wasn't me. The couples had paired up and were on their way to families and marriage 25 years old and digging in.
And I was out. It felt bad knowing that they had what they wanted, and what they had was not what I gunning for- and I knew it never would be.
I was still looking, and I was misfit in this suburban thing.
Looking for what? For the way it felt when you were stemming a long crack, for the way it felt when your hair was long, for the first time you heard "Sugar Magnolia", for the way your heart felt at that first dance, for the burn when you put on your pack and started on trail, for the new snow shining in the street light, for when you heard Van morrison and you had to stop because he was singing to you-that wild night was calling.
When you had a head on and you had to talk to your friends because they felt it too, and you needed to share and to walk and to try and sort things out.
My hair was long, and I was lean, and I was broke.
So much style.
So much confusion
Times when things felt awkward, and to make me realize how out of place I was. The place in my mind I wanted to be was pulling on a rock. And feeling the muscles in my back flexing.
Pulling on that rock toward some place.
A little too much Homebrew tonight
Murf
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Hobo Dan, GOOD! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Good descriptive phrases, captures the time and feelings of the time. Really, just like I remember the era.
Keep writing and pushing the word boundaries.
Ever think of posting onto the ST Book Club we do each month. It would expand your word horizons.
peace and joy, Lynne
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nature
climber
Santa Fe, NM
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When? What's this "When" stuff? We gradualized?
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originalpmac
Trad climber
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awesome writing, dude. bump for the sugar magnolia reference. for me it is "sugaree" I can't quite relate entirely cause i was born in '86, but i understand the searching for the 'right' feeling. I recently left a good relationship cause she wanted to have kids and such, and it didn't feel right. i wanted to smell bad when waking up in the back of my truck, clot cuts on my hand with chalk, smell that weird smell you find sometimes on basalt crags get scared when i am up there, then get bored when i am down here.
keep writing these little tid-bits hobo an, they make some of our days.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 10, 2008 - 12:24am PT
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good stuff.
look up miscreant; that works too.
1 : UNBELIEVING, HERETICAL.
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Jun 10, 2008 - 12:31am PT
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Rock on. Pull HARD brother. Just on more move before pro. Oh sh#t. Lichen. Off route, up 60m since last piece.... Elvis... NOT TODAY. Move left, back on route. Awesome.
EDIT: Well, maybe 30m but who's counting? :)
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2008 - 09:13am PT
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What is the ST Book Club?
Trying to find the words to describe when the wind is blowing somewhere else
And thanks you guys for the comments. It makes it so much more fun. Dave Pagel is a friend of mine and he was telling me about how much he worked on his writing and how much of himself went into it.
Total High risk.
But worth it.
Dan
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scuffy b
climber
watching the flytrap
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Jun 10, 2008 - 12:05pm PT
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Thanks for taking the risk, Murf.
You're tugging at some universal strings, there.
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scuffy b
climber
watching the flytrap
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Jun 10, 2008 - 12:07pm PT
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I hadn't noticed the rings, eKat.
The cover shot of the big XC ski mag around 20
years ago was the editor or some such doing
the camel walk.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2008 - 03:17pm PT
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Pleased to say I even know what a drip ring is. Not too many in the whitewater world, probably more of an ocean thing
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jun 10, 2008 - 11:37pm PT
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Hobo Dan, trying ONE MORE TIME. What a crazy day! I emailed you, exmailed you, topoed you.....everything got deleted.
I am exhausted. Could we be sure and connect manana. Want to talk to you about the wind and ST Book Club etc.
Please keep me in your loop. Thanks for your patience. Lynne
Keep up your work,
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2009 - 05:51pm PT
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bump for the drip rings in life
I liked this piece I wrote and so I'm throwing it out one more time- maybe it'll bring on some better energy than I've been steppin' in of late.
I work with a woman who buys into the system a real bean counter.
Makes it tough for for me
Perspective-use it or lose it
Danny
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hooblie
climber
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Sep 25, 2009 - 06:04pm PT
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stopped me, hobo dan, to pause and consider. well done, in fact, it's marked for a return visit, that qualifies it as a "nugget."
i further applaud the bold spirit to throw it out there again. that shouldn't carry any particular stigma. after all, what has changed is the audience and the time/context which in the case of nostalgia, never goes out of style.
this place presents something of a conundrum. the reinforcement impetus seems to be reserved, as it should be,
for wildass excursions into the neck risking terrain which we all celebrate. then there's the facebook style quips
that add little to the record of human experience, but which is the aggregate that pave the roads of the realm.
raising the stakes are some brilliant probes into the existential state of the monkey, which go off at times
like lightning in the night and illuminate the landscape of being in this place, in these times. to wit:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=594562&msg=967299#msg967299
i think what climbers share is a susceptability to visual provocation, and a dedication to a cause that emerges from a certain state of mind. perhaps the notion to muck about in our heads, and formulate a verbal response, when then visceral, quadrapedal call to arms comes so naturally, is not what we should expect here on the forum.
rest assured we are misfits. the self sorting process, in which some step forward when presented with sculptural afronts
to the horizon while pedestrians demure, will continue to identify the tribe, whatever lifestyle solution is fashioned
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Sep 25, 2009 - 10:41pm PT
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Crawling out your window,
going where the wind blows.
Thanks for that
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 25, 2009 - 11:06pm PT
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Pffffffft.
Sure, man.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 25, 2009 - 11:14pm PT
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Armor & bandaids.
You'll be fine. Sort of.
good luck.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 25, 2009 - 11:26pm PT
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See ya later, Mr. Way......
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 25, 2009 - 11:39pm PT
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OK, Mr. Way, Ask around.
THAT is just smack.
You just don't know. Guessing, as usual.
Shoo.
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