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Dedicated to remembering how it was “back then”, and Tales about the Eel River Valley, and the wisdom of the people that live there. With a big emphasis on; “Language has never been about correctness, it has always been about communicating”. We live in one small bubble of place and time that peace is thought of as ideal, we should revel in it! We cant judge what happened in history by who we are now.
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Favorite quotes
"I'm so tired of people substituting "values" for truth in a wide variety of situations. As a member of the reality-based community, I'd like to see reality used as the litmus test... " Jon Carrol
"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
Richard Dawkins
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"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
Richard Dawkins
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Personal bio
- Ernie Branscomb
- Refrigeration contractor. Fifth generation native of the So. Fork of the Eel River.(since 1857) Married to wife Janis Dec. 31 1971. Volunteer fireman since 1973. Rotarian since 1980. E-mail adress ernie@branscombcenter.com
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- This is where I'll be this week.
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- This one's for Cousin Jim.
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- Chocolate Covered Xanex, great writing!
- Digging Up Humboldt. (Graveyard History)
- Ed Densen, On The Road Again
- Fred Mangles, Freds Humboldt Blog
- Kim Sallaway Photography Blog. Recomended!
- Lost Coast Outpost, Hank Sims
- Lynette local history
- Mendo Coast Current
- Redheaded Blackbelt
- Rose's "Watch Paul"
- Samoa Softball, Richard Marks, working man
- Sohum Parlance II Eric Kirk
- The Bitten Apple, Indie's blog
- The Humboldt Herald, Heraldo
- The man at Planet Tapperass
- Tom Seborn KGOE I E I O
- Willits Daily Photo, overflow
9 comments:
You uploaded some of the pictures twice, Ernie.
Oh Fred, let him be! We are not perfect little Libertarians! Ha! Just kidding!
How did you get those people to smile Ernie?
"You uploaded some of the pictures twice, Ernie."
Fred
Yeah, but did you notice that I spelled everything right?
"How did you get those people to smile Ernie?"
First, we are a pretty tight knit group. Second, I just tell everybody that “I'm not a photographer, and I don't have any tricks to make then look good, and I just want to be able to see everyone’s faces looking at the camera, and when that happens, I'm going to count to three and click it.”
They will provide their own joke that seems to tickle them. Usually it's something to pick on me.
Ernie, I love seeing everybody since I didn't get to go again this year. Was it good fundraiser?
Add more pictures Ernie. Maybe I will see somebody I know and even maybe somebody I remember. I wish I could have been there.
We had full attendance, as usual.
It is a very warm feeling to see such great appreciation and participation by this community. I will be doing a full post on the event in a few days to a week.
I'll try to include a few pictures of the crowd. But I didn't take any photo's myself. I was too busy keeping the ball in the air.
Jim, Eva Williams was there. She will be Ninety in a few days. She is sharp as a tack. (Red Porter's Wife, Alfred Williams mom.)
Nice letter supporting Estelle, Ernie, in today's T-S. That is why I called you a couple of weeks ago. Thank you!
Where is Ernie?
I know how he got them to smile, check out whats in Beto's hand in every picture he's in
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