Following the Leader
Photographed by Nichole Hastings
With the iPhone 4S
Three dogs and their human in the lower east side.
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Color Study VII
Neon on West 36th and Fashion
Photographed by Nichole Hastings
With the iPhone 4S
I stopped at a red light while foot-traffic crossed in front of me in the Fashion District. This is a color study of socio-economic differences in choices of color in regards to fashion in NYC back in early April. Our Strava Shoot crew had rented a duplex condo in Harlem because the price was right and we were close to the GW Bridge. Fashion in Harlem often had a bit of neon thrown in here and there. A jacket, sneakers, detailing of some sort and accessories. I thought nothing of it until this lone neon green figure, in a sea of subdued blacks, grays and other dark colors entered my frame.
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Monday Reflection
Sometimes you wake up
And have a really challenging day
Nothing goes right
And it’s the first day of the week
One thing after another happens
You feel rolled along
Like a tumbling tumbleweed
Blown along by the unkind winds of Fate
The computer won’t do what you want it to do
An automated phone answering system keeps
You on hold for fifteen twenty minutes
Of your life
Then drops the call
You show up late for a meeting
the other party has forgotten
Your patience
Tested
Joy
A stranger
What sense of humor?
Long irritated sighs escape once smiling lips
Murphy’s Law appears a rule and an absolute
What the fuck?
Is this really how the beginning is going to begin??
At the end of the day
You’re spent and wasted
Wondering how
The hell
You got through it all
Then
The Universe moves in a mysterious way
Somehow you end up in a red Audi TT
The scent of it’s all leather interior
Is a sweet and intoxicating perfume
You gaze lovingly at the bright
And shiny dash instruments
Then buckle yourself in
With one hand on the wheel
The other on the stick shift
You Go
And you remember
You remember whose hands are on
The steering wheel of Life
Shift up and step on the gas
Feeling that engine purr as you
Open it up
On a long and winding back road in Vermont
9 pm
On a Monday night
Composed by Nichole Hastings
@philo_quotes:
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
2013 DOC Spring Banquet
2013 DOC Spring Banquet
At Moosilauke Ravine Lodge
On May 9th, 6:30-9pm
An honor and a pleasure to be invited and included in this gathering. Many people seem surprised when they discover I am a volunteer and did not attend Dartmouth College. I attended Lebanon High School located ‘next door’, Class of ’95 and Keene State College, Class of ’99. I was the Vice President of the Environmental Outing Club at Keene State for a couple semesters. Although, it was my upbringing on a NH farm, a walk with my grandfather to the family corner property lines when I was in elementary school, and my mother’s expectation that after school my brother and I were to go outside and play that most influenced my love of outdoor activities and nature. I also have a deep and abiding love of reading, studying history, and I am fascinated by tradition. My three favorite books are The History of Hanover, NH and Dartmouth College up to 1815, The First 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club and the double compilation of Walden and Civil Disobedience.
This program and why I put so much care into is not about me or for me. I’m returning a favor to the universe. My ultimate mission is to see students take ownership of this program. To see students discussing the Boundary and Corridor. To see students engaging local community, recruiting new volunteers and educating themselves and others. My ardent desire is for students to become stewards of the land, the trails and the history of this Upper Valley region that has, is and will profoundly effect their lives. I’m merely laying the groundwork. I’m simply an intermediary for greater things yet to come.
This image is a detail shot of a bandana presented to me at this banquet for my volunteer service as the DOC’s Appalachian Trail Monitor Coordinator these past three years. I feel humbled by the recognition and appreciate the gift. I’m looking forward to the rest of year three, four and five of my voluntary commitment in managing the AT Stewardship program.
—
Nichole Hastings
Appalachian Trail Monitor Coordinator
Dartmouth Outing Club
Robinson Hall, Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Email: doc.at.corridormonitors@gmail.com
DOC AT Boundary Program Schedule: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/appalachiantrail/
Twitter ID: @DartmouthOuting
