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Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


Jerry Garcia

  • 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