h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Johnredbear,
I´ve read the journal you mentioned. I understand now still better your scruples about killing your rabbits. And found unnecessary my comment about how to kill a rabbit. YOu know, you are a country man, not a "newbie".

Í hope you don´t find unsensitive my words. THey were meant to be practical, useful for you.
As I have written, I had all kind of animals when I was I child. Every animal had a function. We cared for them, there was never violence or mistreat towards them. But to kill some of them was part of the living. Pigs, hens and rabbits.

Dogs were for hunting, my father used to hunt, only used the dogs, never a rifle.
Dogs and little goats were the toys of my brothers and me.


good luck with whatever you do

I am pleased to hear your words. I see in my mind all people living in the towns and cities especially in Europe. This is untrue. I know with reflection that there are many that live near the land. I am pleased to make a contact with one of them. My way of life is far from my fathers but far from most others it is fading away like a campfire in late evening. I know that I am seeming a brutal person to some that have only had cement under their feet. Soon there will be only the remembering of it. I am sorry to see it depart from Earth but I have tried to live as I best know how to honor the Creator and my fathers. I tried very much to live like whites but was not accepted for I was not in the same mind and was always outside of them always. Thank you for your words.
J.R.

You´re very wellcome,man.

YOu´ll find that this place is full of amiable people.

Have a good time

Hi man,
I´ve been reading a few of your journals and have enjoyed them a lot. The things you say remind me of a writer, Jack London. Maybe you have read him. The Call of the Wild is a very famous story of his. He was born in 1876 and died in 1916. Most of his stories are about animals and Nature. Alaska is the setting for most of them.

YOu may also like the northamerican poets Emerson and Thoureau. Both lovers of Nature.


Take care,
Mar

I am glad that you gave me those names to read. My daughter is a teacher of English and says to me that she will get those books for me. I look forward to seeing them.
JR

I´m sure you will enjoy them. I´d love to know your opinion. Probably Moby Dick by Melville would be interesting for you too.

I´ll read your journal when you come back from that particular journey you mentioned recently.Well, I hope you will tell us about it. Do you mind if I add you to my list of friends? That way I won´t miss it.
I´m not going to be around here for a while. By the end of this month, I´m coming back to my village and to my hometown, Granada, to see my family and have a very deserved holidays. I´ll spend July there.

I wish you well
Mar

Mar, please do add me as a freind. I have read Moby Dick! It took me a very long time but I very much enjoyed it. I was kept in interest so much that I often was not doing things that needed to be done. I felt much kinship with kequeg (I don't recall to spell the name). I also was very taken by the describing of the sea. I want to see the seas one day from way out in it.
I will make entry in my journal upon my return from my walk. I am going as soon as I am able after our family gathering in just a few weeks. It has been very hard to get a time for as many as can to come at once and we have finally decided on the 23 day of July for the great gathering and the surrounding days for exchanging visits. I am without words for my excitement in looking to the gathering of so many. I have not seen my cousins from Washington state for near 30 years nor my uncle and cousins from Alaska in longer I think. It will be well to do this before my walking.
JR

Hi John,
That gathering sounds great.

In a week I´ll be with my family too. I haven´t seen them since December.

Have you thought of taking notes during those days of your walk? Then you´ll have easy to remember things to put them in your journal of h2, here.

Now there´s a clear blue sky , I love these summer mornings. ´My daughter has finished school and I think we will go for an early walk before the sun falls as a stone. It´s going to be hot today.


Have a good time my friend

Friend Mar, I will take notes and will I hope take photographs also. I have been looking to this walk for a long long time. I am hopeing that a good deal of my path will be on the same trils that my people used to walk, they were very nomadic as they followed food animals and climate too. Much trail is now roads and rail grades. I am hoping the rail people will not bother me because of 'right of way', this happened to me once many years ago. I was not of mind to travel before or after my family gathering but will wait till after since I do not wish to hurry my walk nor to mjiss my kindred. I walk very slow now in my age but not too slow I hope. My wife wishes to come also and so together we will travel. My daughters are insisting we take a phone with us and for them we will.

I am glad for you to see your family after so long a time. I would be lost in many ways without mine.
I also enjoy the mornings of Summer. Often I awake at 4 or 5 and sit out and listen as the world awakens. I find it brings peace to my day. Always there seems to be trouble between people and most of the time I am unable to decide why. Nature has much violence but it is short lived and a part of the way of things then it is over and peace is again. If I could I would never leave the woodlands but life is as it is and so I visit at every chance and when I have no chance I make it.

I will write you again when I have words to say with meaning.
JR

Hi John,
your words always have meaning.

It´s a very good idea to take a phone with you. And to take photos is great. YOu must show them to us!

Take care