ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday the flooding in Pakistan was the worst disaster he had ever seen, and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the up to 20 million people affected.
I realized that it was exactly a decade ago that I played in my 1st-ever disc golf world championship. Although the tourney overall did not go as well as planned, the final round featured what remains as one of the best throws of my life.
With just a few holes left to play, I let go of a drive on a 330-foot drive that landed softly in the center of the chains. A hole in one at the world championships. It was an especially cool ace because my dad, who had never seen me play before, was actually in the gallery watching me play that day.
To illustrate for those not familiar with disc golf, this essentially would be like standing in a football endzone, and throwing a (frisbee) disc that hits a basketball on the opposite goal post. And even though the event didn’t result in a world title, I had to wait under one year for that dream to come true.
If you do nothing else today, make sure you watch this video.
And if you are REALLY SOOOOOooo busy that you can’t take 4 minutes to watch the whole thing, then start at the 3-minute mark and watch to the end from there.
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The best way to save the planet is to keep laughing!
Reno just installed a disc golf course recently, and I was in the area for one of their 1st tournaments.
It was a last-second decision to even play, due to a very sketchy flier that had no directions, phone number, or website listed. It didn’t even have the city or date printed on it!
In the end, I ended up winning the open pro division, even though an amateur posted a lower score (lucky for me he sandbagged it!).
So now in addition to Lake Tahoe champ (2007) and Seattle champ (2002?), I guess I can now claim to have another locale’s trophy in my pro cache, albeit another very minor one.
Today I’m actually heading to a much grander disc golf operation, a 45-hole private course in SE Reno. If you never hear from me again, come look for my vulture-ravaged corpse on the course.
I am a bona fide DFH (dirty effin hippie).
I am coming clean, just don’t ask me to take more than the minimum number of showers required to be tolerated in our modern world.
With that said, now more than ever, the DHF ethos is proving to have been right all along. Organic foods, once a fringe boutique food item, can be found at Walmart. Going green, once popular only amongst frogs, is now cooler than ever amongst image-conscious people and corporations alike. Climate change, once just a theory known as the greenhouse effect, is now a scientific fact backed by 98% of the world’s scientists, and 100% or the population of non-stupid people worldwide.
The final hurdle of our eleventy-bazillion mile barefoot hippie high hurdle marathon in the little fact that even the most granola-filled and hippified amongst us still burn oil. Lots of oil.
The good news is that the solution is simple and has served mankind just fine for millennia: WALKING
The 2nd national park in the U.S. remains one of the nation’s greatest legacies over 100 years later. People from across the globe seek things that cannot be found elsewhere on Earth; few leave disappointed.
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.
Below I will share a few more photos, quotes, and bits of advice for anyone hoping to visit in the near future.
The memories are still strong. China is the most prolific with such malapropisms, but all of Asia should be given a hat tip for its contributions to the cause of making me wet myself laughing. This is one of my personal faves that I captured (in Rishikesh, India):
This week in climate changeis a new weekly series devoted to climate change and related news. The hope is that we can engage in constructive debate about the issues raised by the topics presented, and coalesce around the action items proposed each week.
The diary for now will appear Wednesday afternoons, around 1PM Pacific.
THE LEDE
Fortunately nothing major happened this week, so there is no top story about which we should be concerned.
Everything is just peachy in the world, and climate change is closer than ever to being solved. Americans have made necessary sacrifices in their own behaviors so that we are energy self-sufficient and our national carbon footprint is offset by our aggressive tree-planting campaigns.
The time of rejoicing is upon us.
Nothing to see here…
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And for anyone who for the past week was in a cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears, these Dkos tags might lead you to find views contrary to the opinions stated above.
