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Longevity
Don’t you wonder what secrets to a long and happy life Forrest Fenn might share? (In addition to being extremely fortunate in the outcome of his flying career, I mean.)
100 years ago
So, I asked him. Diet? Exercise? Are you some sort of vegan?
His response:
This old lady was asked that question. She said she drank 4 Dr. Peppers a day since she was 8 years old. She said her doctors promised she would die at an early age if she didn’t stop. She said, “I’m 104 years-old, still drinking 4 Dr. Peppers a day and my doctors are all dead.”
Wiki-link — Dr Pepper Interesting: they sued Coca-Cola back in the fifties.
Once, at the county fair, I tossed rings and won a couple large, glass bottles of Dr Pepper. I had to give them to my brother because I couldn’t stand the flavor; tasted too much like prune juice? Like a lot of other fine things, I acquired a taste for it later in life.
Happy hunting, all!
April is Not the Cruelest Month
Lake Michigan
Wishing hoping and praying for the safety of Randy and all those out searching for him.
Randy’s well thumbed copy of The Thrill of the Chase
The Call of Distant Places – Book Launch for Forrest Fenn’s Latest
(If I weren’t eighteen hours away . . . )
Charmay Allred invites you to an autograph party
Please join us and bring a friend
Leon Gaspard – The Call of Distant Places
A new book by Forrest Fenn and Carleen Milburn
Monday September 14, 2015
5-7 pm
La Fonda Hotel
Santa Fe Room
Light refreshments will be served
Please RSVP by Sept 10 to:leongaspardbook@gmail.com
There and Back Again: An Egtved Girl’s Travels
Interesting (to me)
Fathers and Sons
Marvin and Forrest Fenn
Lawrence and Dan Fogelberg
Yours and mine
“The Leader of the Band”
1942 DeKalb All Grade School Band Concert
Dan Fogelberg‘s father Lawrence
Dan certainly had a way with words-
“I’m Just a living Legacy to the leader of the band”
2nd verse: “A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn’t wait
He earned his love through discipline
A thundering, velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand”
It puts me in mind of Marvin Fenn as school principal and Forrest’s tales of lessons learned. (See the books.)
Full lyrics here: Dan Fogelberg – Leader Of The Band Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Pondering
1972 Dinosaur National Monument
(Missing my Dad, too)
The Sonnets
Forrest Fenn is writing poetry again. I’d love to watch over his shoulder and see him at work. Is it a messy process with lots of words crossed out? Or does he compose it in his head and only write what works? Does he adhere to form or formula? Or is he a free spirit, free verse wordsmith?
English: Title page of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Photo credit Wikipedia
Apparently William Shakespeare worried about leaving a legacy. At least the young man narrating the Bard’s first dozen or three sonnets did. He stood gazing marvelously in the mirror, pondering, and concluded that he’d just have to get married and have a son. {Okay. That’s more abbreviated than even a Cliff’s Notes version.} But, it made me think of the last chapter in Forrest Fenn’s Too Far To Walk where he gazes with marvel(?) in his mirror in a closing poem.
Legacy~~~
“Oh very young. What will you leave us this time?” Cat Stevens
