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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
"Enamórate de tu vida. Cada minuto de ella". - Jack Kerouac
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Me voici de retour au milieu
de nulle part -
Du moins je crois que oui
I'm back here in the middle
of nowhere -
At least I think so
Jack Kerouac (Le livre des haïku)
* Une fois que c'est écrit, pourvu que cela soit lu, c'est comme si c'était dit.
Why explain ?
bear burdens
In silence
Pourquoi expliquer ?
porte les fardeaux
En silence
Jack Kerouac
-Jack kerouac
Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy ~ Elegy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PqWjug1Jg
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“...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live..." Jack Kerouac from "On The Road."
Shot with the Olympus E-M1 in Rockport, Massachusetts USA.
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"Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars"
Jack Kerouac
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.”– Jack Kerouac.
My other passion is hiking. It's good for the body and the soul.
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'Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?' was the question probably asked to the beetlebrowed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Fini le Bordeaux. Dans la pénombre je sirote un verre de Merlot (Nappa Valley) en écoutant Jack Kerouac débiter des faux blues et des haïkus , avec derrière un vieux saxo qui débagoule à fond, et pourquoi ça me rappelle ce type qui essayait de ressembler à James Dean ( le pauvre) et que j’ai laissé me draguer un soir de lassitude, mais bon…
Over with Bordeaux. At home in the dark I sip a glass of Merlot (Nappa Valley) listening to Jack Kerouac’s voice chopping fake blues and haikus, with this background of incoherent/drunken/slippery old sax, and why does it recall this guy in a bar who hoped to look like James Dean (poor fellow) and I let him try to chat me up out of boredom, oh well….
Location: The Salt Lakes of Florence
Taken March 30, 2021 of Jack Kerouac Alley between Columbus and Grant Streets in Chinatown, San Francisco. At the end of the alley to the left is City Lights Bookstore. Shot with Olympus XA and Fomapan 100, developed in XTOL at 20c, for 8 minutes, scanned in EPSON V600 and edited with SnapSeed.
“…la mayor parte del tiempo estábamos solos y nuestras almas se mezclaban cada vez más hasta que se nos hacía terriblemente difícil decirnos adiós.”
Jack Kerouac: "En el camino".
Al oeste de Hanksville, Utah, USA.
Neal Cassady never published a book in his life. Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial influence on the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
After passing through New York City in the 1940s, he inspired the character of Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s On The Road and was called the “secret hero” of Ginsberg’s Howl. Kerouac was so enchanted by his encounter with Cassady that he soon drove out to Denver to see him. This would be the start of several road trips that Kerouac and Cassady took together, some of which lasted months. And when Kerouac penned his famous work, On The Road, he based the character of Dean Moriarty on Neal Cassady, and the many road trips they took together in Neal's Hudson.
From the Doobie Brothers song
Neal's Fandango
Well, a travelin' man's affliction makes it hard to settle down
But I'm stuck here in the flatlands while my heart is homeward bound
Goin' back, I'm too tired to roam, Loma Prieta my mountain home
On the hills above Santa Cruz to the place where I spent my youth
Goin' back, I'm too tired to roam, Loma Prieta my mountain home
On the hills above Santa Cruz to the place where I spent my youth
Well it was Neal Cassady that started me to travel
All the stories that were told, I believed in everyone of them
It's a windin' road I'm on you understand
And no time to worry 'bout tomorrow when you're followin' the sun
And a little Travelin' music by the Doobie Brothers:
[ Train tunnel, too dark
for me to write : that
"Men are ignorant" ]
Jack KEROUAC - Le Livre des haïku
[ Tunnel ferroviaire, trop sombre
pour que j'écrive : que
"les hommes sont ignorants" ]
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“La vida debe ser rica y llena de amor; de lo contrario, no sirve de nada, no sirve en absoluto, para nadie”.
Jack Kerouac.
Cerca del mirador de Voipir, a los pies del glaciar.
Parque Nacional Villarrica, Región de la Araucanía, Chile.
This restored flophouse in San Luis Obispo’s historic Railroad District was home to Jack Kerouac in 1953 when he worked as a brakeman on the arduous San Luis Obispo to Santa Margarita run.
“The sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom.”
– Jack Kerouac (American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry, but raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts)
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac
Hi everyone trust you are all fine.
Since my last post I have travelled down quite a few American and Canadian roads. Had a fine time, we were lucky with the weather and just about saw the peak colours of the fall in New Hampshire. Met lots of friendly people on both sides of the border and got home safe. I have a ton of photographs to work through when I get my garden sorted
This particularly bit of road was in Northern Maine near Jackman not to far from the Canadian border.
On the last full day of the holiday I paid my respects to the American writer Jack Kerouac who is buried at the Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was pleasing to see that the town of Lowell had celebrated Jacks life in a number of ways in the city. Certainly he is a not America’s finest writer but in On The Road he celebrated the sense of boundless freedom that was very influential in England in the sixties. Its not a bad thing to have written on your gravestone . “ He honoured life “
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTRESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE
“The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?”
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Finishing our adventure and heading home, we stopped at Lonely Dell Ranch in Lee's Ferry. This is Lee's Ferry Road leaving Lonely Dell Ranch and heading back past Cathedral rock formation to Navajo Bridge and US Highway 89A.
www.npshistory.com/publications/glca/hsr-lees-ferry-lonel...
www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/lees-ferry.htm
The early Mormon pioneer - John Doyle Lee and his wives lived in this area. One wife is said to have remarked - when first seeing this site - that this was such a "Lonely Dell" and the name stuck. The site is comprised of several buildings, an orchard a cemetery and restored irrigation projects.
The Lonely Dell Ranch and Lees Ferry Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is managed by the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Lee's Ferry provided the crossing of the Colorado River until 1929 when the original Navajo Bridge was built. Many Mormon settlers in Arizona made the trip to the LDS Temple in St. George Utah to solemnize their marriage and this route became known as "The Honeymoon Trail".
Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Landscape
Zane Grey wrote about the Lee's Ferry crossing in The Last of the Plainsmen (1908):
I saw the constricted rapids, where the Colorado took its plunge into the box-like head of the Grand Canyon of Arizona; and the deep, reverberating boom of the river, at flood height, was a fearful thing to hear. I could not repress a shudder at the thought of crossing above that rapid.
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''What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.''
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac
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"The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?"
"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Finishing our adventure and heading home, we stopped at Lonely Dell Ranch in Lee's Ferry. This is Lee's Ferry Road leaving Lonely Dell Ranch and heading back past Cathedral rock formation to Navajo Bridge and US Highway 89A.
www.npshistory.com/publications/glca/hsr-lees-ferry-lonel...
www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/lees-ferry.htm
The early Mormon pioneer - John Doyle Lee and his wives lived in this area. One wife is said to have remarked - when first seeing this site - that this was such a "Lonely Dell" and the name stuck. The site is comprised of several buildings, an orchard a cemetery and restored irrigation projects.
The Lonely Dell Ranch and Lees Ferry Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is managed by the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Lee's Ferry provided the crossing of the Colorado River until 1929 when the original Navajo Bridge was built. Many Mormon settlers in Arizona made the trip to the LDS Temple in St. George Utah to solemnize their marriage and this route became known as "The Honeymoon Trail".
Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Landscape
Zane Grey wrote about the Lee's Ferry crossing in The Last of the Plainsmen (1908):
I saw the constricted rapids, where the Colorado took its plunge into the box-like head of the Grand Canyon of Arizona; and the deep, reverberating boom of the river, at flood height, was a fearful thing to hear. I could not repress a shudder at the thought of crossing above that rapid.
Navajo Nation 2025
There is a certain beauty in seeing the world around you as an empty canvas, and whatever you want to do or be- put your heart to it and make it happen.
Theme: Power In Words
Year Fourteen Of My 365 Project
“As we crossed the . . . border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, ‘Pass here and go on, you’re on the road to heaven.’” Jack Kerouac
Caught the sunrise ( ha’íí’ą́ )from the balcony on our room. Wish I knew how to do timelapse - it is on my "to learn" list. All rooms look out on Monument Valley, are very comfortable, and have nice balconies for watching sunsets and sunrises. We loved it here and hope to be back for a Hunts Mesa tour. I might try booking the 3rd floor for the advertised astrophotography specials. I was lucky that the sun rose between West Mitten Butte and East Mitten Butte. monumentvalleyview.com/the-view-hotel/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley#:~:text=Monument%20...(Navajo%3A%20Ts%C3%A9%20Bii%CA%BC,m)%20above%20the%20valley%20floor.
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor.[1] It is located on the Utah-Arizona state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley is a sacred area that lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation, the Native American people of the area.[2]
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns; critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 square kilometers] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."[3]
“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Diné bizaad: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, which roughly translates to the valley of rocks.
navajowotd.com/word/tse-bii-nidzisgaii/
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That moment . . . that moment when something was in your life for years & then one day you looked & realized you love ... or maybe even in love. Don’t know what happened to me that July but I know I’ve never felt like that before.
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
-Jack Kerouac
Onward. :) Happy Monday!
This iconic San Francisco bar was founded in 1948. Over the years it was a favorite haunt for the Beat Generation artists like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady--as well as yours-truly during my university years. I remember many a late Saturday night, sitting upstairs with my friends, drinking Irish coffees, and solving the world's problems.
If ever there was a schizophrenic drink, the Irish coffee is it. After a couple rounds my body doesn't know whether to sleep or to run a marathon. And, we never managed to solve even one of the world's problems.
Happy Slider's Sunday Everyone.
San Francisco CA
chinatown
san francisco, california
this alley connects grant avenue with the iconic beat generation "city lights" bookstore
I love love love love empty road in the fall. There’s nothing like it—my fav time of the year. Just look at this how can nature naturally create something like this.
The revered City Lights Book Store flanked by Jack Kerouac Alley on the left and Columbus Street on the right. I was on my way to Molinari's Deli for one of their incredible sandwiches, one of the many reasons to pay a visit to North Beach, besides a little browsing at the bookstore, and perhaps an Irish Coffee at Vesuvio's.
San Francisco CA