And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My boys DID walk to school uphill, both ways. We live on one hill, the school is one quarter mile from us on an other hill, with a dip of ten foot halfway. So yes, it CAN happen. 😎
The high latitudes have a different feel. I can't define it as well as I'd like to. Montana is referred to as "Big Sky" country. It's true, that in the high Arctic there is a big sky feel to things. It can be disconcerting.
Looks like my route to and from school when I was a kid.
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DeleteThank you, samoore, because that was really funny!
Crack. Me. Up!
My boys DID walk to school uphill, both ways. We live on one hill, the school is one quarter mile from us on an other hill, with a dip of ten foot halfway. So yes, it CAN happen. 😎
DeleteAdd hostile Indians and a canoe to drag and it was mine exactly.
DeleteBut so much for summer school.
DeleteIn the winter we had to do that before sunrise.
In a blizzard.
with attacks by crocodiles (those mountain crocs can be really dangerous.)
And it was uphill...BOTH WAYS!!
ReplyDeleteI decided to start walking to work. There is a glacial moraine halfway between home and work.
DeleteFirst time I did so,it snowed.
So, "Uphill, both ways, in the snow ..."
You went to the same school my mother attended.
ReplyDeleteThe high latitudes have a different feel. I can't define it as well as I'd like to. Montana is referred to as "Big Sky" country. It's true, that in the high Arctic there is a big sky feel to things. It can be disconcerting.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, we had to crawl through nine feet of shag carpet to change the TV channel. Now that's hardship.
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