Mr. MBA gave one of two TATS as we discussed the price of wheat you would charge if you were the captain of a ship landing on the shores of a place where people were starving, knowing you have what they need and their is NO competition. What do you do?
The second TATS was a tribute given to our dear friend Jon Cook, who passed away last week. Prez Hale, as always, recited the following from memory.
To an Athlete Dying Young
by A E Housman
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
YIPPY SKIPPY
Who's dumb idea was it to ride up PineCrest after Big Mtn..... Mr. SportLegs??
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Secret Waterfall? - by BIG MAN
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