Posts Tagged ‘June 09’

Mile 82.3 – One thing, and perhaps only one thing, is certain about the human condition; “No one here gets out alive.” – J. Morrison

June 2009 Map

Day 5 of The Salt Lake City Sphere – a five day, five image work set to the words of Neil Peart’s Hemispheres

Mile 75.1 – Unfortunately at this point our tale must diverge from Peart’s Hemispheres. For there is no Cygnus upon the land.

June 29, 2009 – Bernie Madoff was sentenced today to 150 years in prison for operating what may be the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history. Madoff’s scheme defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars.

June 2009 Map

Day 4 of The Salt Lake City Sphere – a five day, five image work set to the words of Neil Peart’s Hemispheres

73.9 Miles – III. Armageddon

The universe divided
As the heart and mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder into hollow
Hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other
Most just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their brothers
For their hearts were so unclear
And the truth could not appear
Their spirits were divided into blinded
Hemispheres

Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
My Rocinante sailed by night
On her final flight’
To the heart of Cygnus’ fearsome force
We set our course
Spiraled through that timeless space
To this immortal place
(Peart, Hemispheres, 1978)

June 2009 Map

Day 3 of The Salt Lake City Sphere – a five day, five image work set to the words of Neil Peart’s Hemispheres

71.4 miles – IIb Dionysus
I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the Heart’s eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only love can steer you right
I bring laughter, I bring music
I bring joy and I bring tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears’

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew love could not be wrong
Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the gods watched from afar
But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired

(Peart, Hemispheres, 1978)

June 27, 2009 – Today in a radio and internet address House Minority Leader John Boehner criticized the Obama administration stating “The president and Democrats in Congress claim this spending binge is necessary to put Americans back to work. They promised unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if their trillion-dollar stimulus was passed.”  The administration was wrong Boehner said.  “Unemployment has soared above 9 percent. And now the president admits that unemployment will soon reach double digits.”

June 2009 Map

Day 2 of The Salt Lake City Sphere – a five day, five image work set to the words of Neil Peart’s Hemispheres

67.2 Miles – IIa. Apollo

‘I bring truth and understanding
I bring wit and wisdom fair
Precious gifts beyond compare
We can build a world of wonder
I can make you all aware
I will find you food and shelter
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform’

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise
But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong
The wise men were consulted
And the Bridge of Death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus
To find out what they had lost
(Peart, Hemispheres, 1978)

July 26, 2009 – The whole world seems fixated on the death of Michael Jackson who died yesterday, June 25.

June 2009 Map

Day 1 0f  The Salt Lake City Sphere – a five day, five image work set to the words of Neil Peart’s Hemispheres

62.5 Miles – I. Prelude

When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of love and reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages
But still neither force would yield
The people were divided
Every soul a battlefield
(Peart, Hemispheres, 1978)

June 25, 2009 – A man was shot in both legs during a carjacking in Salt Lake City late Wednesday night, June 24, near 900 West and 800 South.

June 2009 Map

Mile 53.1 – “People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven when you’re down”

- Jim Morrison

June 19, 2009 - President Obama spoke to young men today telling them “Even if your father was not there, you can be there for your child.” Obama made his remarks two days before Fathers Day at Year Up, a nonprofit program for urban youth.

Mile 38.1 - For those who sleep rough this stretch of weather must be agonizing. To be cold is bad but to be wet is to be miserable.

June 12, 2009 – Two climbers fell to their deaths yesterday afternoon, June 11, on North America’s tallest mountain – Mount McKinley. Park Rangers reported that the two men fell at least 2000 feet.

33.7 miles - Is there a point where people cross a personal Rubicon?

June 11, 2009 - The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic today, it’s the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

28.5 miles – The Salt Lake City County Building is an amazing structure. In fact I would consider it one the three buildings that make up the Salt Lake City Trifecta; the other two being the Salt Lake Temple and the Cathedral of the Madeleine.  These three buildings, perhaps more than all others in our fair city, have had an immense historical and social significance to the city’s residents. All three of the trifecta are over 100 years old, were completed within 16 years of each other, and are located within a mile of each other.

June 10, 2009 - The Sutherland Institute and the Salt Lake Chamber hosted a panel discussion today on the implications of immigration bill SB81. Both those for the bill and those who oppose it were present. Both audience and panel members were given time to speak and one man had to be expelled from the meeting. The bill goes into effect July 1, 2009.  Among the bills many provisions, the bill calls for an immigration enforcement role for state and local law enforcement agencies.