ClimbingSky

Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


Jerry Garcia

  • A Touch of Grey

    It is Sunday morning and outside it is still predawn dark. While yesterday began at a cold 17 degrees, today it is already 43 degrees. Yesterday, instead of going to another No Kings Rally, I drove over the border into Wisconsin to scout out fishing access points on the Kinnickinnic River. I used to fish… Read more

  • The first Monday of February calls for another tune from Saint Jerry. Here he is with Grisman. Enjoy! Read more

  • I think of a better way to begin a week than listening to Saint Jerry. Enjoy! Read more

  • What better way to start the month of December than this video of Jerry singing this Garcia/ Robert Hunter classic. Enjoy! Read more

  • As I posted here on Monday, beginning this month, I will be start blogging again about Music here as I once did on previous blogs. Henceforth, Mondays at ClimbingSky will be known as Music Mondays. And as I said Monday, the Subtitle to ClimbingSky has been changed to “Why, Baseball, Books, and The Grateful Dead… Read more

  • Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 24, 2016 This time of year we notice the days growing shorter already in the North Country. Since I am up everyday between 5:00 and 5:30, the later and later sunrises become more noticeable every… Read more

  • “We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” ~Jerry Garcia Read more

  • Once, about a decade ago, my daughter Dylan sent me an out-of-the-blue text asking me if I were a Deadhead. I told her at that time that I was not sure since I had only seen the Dead in concert once and The Jerry Garcia Band twice. In my mind, Deadheads were those people who… Read more