> > > How fortunate you are. I can look out my front window and clearly see that ugly brown house accross the street with their four p.o.s. cars (two of which actully run on occasion). The last time I took a walk, my feet touched nothing but asphalt and concrete. If I stand up on my roof, I can look out on my 'town' -there's no magic, though, just other rooftops. What does 'silence' mean?
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> I'll tell you if you tell me about asphalt and concrete.
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> > > Jeff
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> > wow, sounds like the way i live, even down to the ugly brown house across the street. i hate DC. There's no beauty here. one of my favorite things here (the rose garden, in GW, just across the street from my school) got replaced this summer with this big brick quad-type thing and a fountain and this ugly stone gazebo-type thing with what looks like a wooden igloo without a door on it one top.
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> Ugh. I don't know why people do those kinds of things. Something's messd up in the system.
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> > i hate it. i need beauty. oh, i know, there are suuuch beuatiful buildings... but buildings aren't trees and mountains and rivers... i envy you chris
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> Yeah, I'd rather see a live tree than a dead one painted and cut into slits to be nailed to the side of somebody's home.
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> There is this great place called 'four corners' where all of these major creeks converge within a few hundred feet of each other. There are these amazing little cliff-like things on the banks of a few of them. One area is referred to as The Gorge. There is a cable across it suspended between two trees, one on either bank, that the miners used to use to take equipment across. If you get into a climbing harness and attatch a caribeaner [sp] around the cable and through the loop, you can pull yourself across, suspended at the lowest part, oh, ten-twelve feet above this rushing river. It's the most fun in the world just hanging there by a half-inch of metal. They're building a tram now. The works-- they spent months just pouring the foundation, it'll be a pavillian or barn type structure. Still a long hike, but they'll probably get the Trails Committee to keep the trail in better repair. It's just not the same on gravel as it is on moss. Well, the only saving grace for me is that Dad made sure they kept the cable there.
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> > uni"sob sob"peg
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> Chr"I'm sorry"is

all I ahve to say is, this is why i'm moving to the colorado mountains one day, why i'm not going to college in a city, why i'm avoiding cities for the rest of my life...

uni"being a hermit sounds like fun"peg