by Mark Brown | Nov 27, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“Her name is Empress Kitty Robin!” I was living in a suburban ranch house in Palo Alto my junior year at Stanford with my friends Brad, Rob, Jenny, Julie and my partner Rachel. The house was on Wilton Avenue in south Palo Alto and we called it “The Wilton...
by Mark Brown | Nov 23, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“ Missed you at church on Sunday. My cows got into the corn. It might rain. “ For the first several summers that we lived in rural Heath, Massachusets there were two general stores, one in Heath Center next to the church and town hall and the other in North Heath two...
by Mark Brown | Nov 20, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“I like the idea of Cowboy poetry, but I don’t need to hear any more of it.” I was at a music festival in the Sierra Mountains and had just been told that there was a late afternoon performance event called “Cowboy Poetry,” happening, appropriately enough, at the...
by Mark Brown | Nov 14, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“ You climb up to the top of the tree and while you’re up there I’ll chop the tree down. ” When I was 11 years old I spent the summer in rural Massachusetts, wandering around the fields and woods with my best pal, Stevie Wolf. We had no phones of screens to...
by Mark Brown | Nov 7, 2020 | Notable Quotes
“ Let’s climb that mountain and take a Wind Bath when we get to the top.“ We were resting in a meadow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when my friend Brad introduced me to the concept of wind baths. He had heard that Chairman Mao took wind baths on mountaintops in China...
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