I am not sure of the origin of the name. One can safely guess the Kentucky connection of Bourbon whiskey has to do at least something with it. I remember flying into Lexington, KY for work in my previous life and the airport was called Blue Glass airport!
Bourbon, lemon juice, maraschino liqueur and pineapple juice it is!!!
Woke up after the party last night a little tired. In fact, I was wondering whether to go out for a ride at all. I am glad I decided to soldier it on. “PoshGoonda” Rakesh Rao had planned a great route to a great destination. We landed up having lunch sitting by the river watching folks canoe and raft by on the Big Creek in a very small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains called Aska.
Avi was the steady sweep behind all the time to make sure nobody was left behind. Which in this case, means really me – since it was three of us who hit the mountain trails today.
I am most glad that I was able to do all those left and right turns in the mountains without making a single mistake.
All that said, the butts are really really sore 🙁
They find water and ice in Mars and the first thing that crosses their mind is “Let’s grow salad?”. Did they ever think of much better things that go with water and ice – say, scotch, for example?
🙂
Now reading Taoism in that book Religions of Man. I had very little understanding of Taoism before this. One of the key learnings I had was Taoism’s focus on “creative quietude” (wu wei). In chapter 78 in the book Tao Te Ching (by founder Lao Tzu), is a great poem comparing the virtues of water – infinitely supple yet incomparably strong – to wu wei. (in the context of water eroding away rocks)
“What is more fluid, more yielding than water?
Yet back it comes again, wearing down the tough strength
Which cannot move to withstand it.
So it is that the strong yield to the weak,
The haughty, to the humble.
This we know.
But never learn.”
There is another poem in Chapter 17, that I had read before but never realized that the source is the original book of Taoism.
“A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists
… Of a good leader, who talks little
When is work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will all say, ‘We did this ourselves’ ”
