Comments on: Open Spaces: The Untold Mike Basich Story http://www.boardistan.com/?p=11998 The Independent Republic of Snow, Skate, Surf News Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:07:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rod Liner http://www.boardistan.com/?p=11998&cpage=1#comment-45440 Rod Liner Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:52:35 +0000 http://www.boardistan.com/?p=11998#comment-45440 Carpe florem, Carpe Diem...seize the flower, seize the day. How many times did this old line from Orlando Furioso by Ariosto...(an epic work from the 1500's.) come to me as I watched Mike go from childhood exploration, to his fame, and back to his adulthood exploration. Follow you bliss! How simple an admonition and yet how few do it. Thanks for the effort to document you capturing your bliss and reminding us that we all have to search for that place where one feels most alive. Pitty those who never find it and think it comes with the acquistion of material possessions. "The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates The goal of gathering life enriching activities and serving others is indeed worth living. Rod Liner San Carlos California 2009 Retired High School teacher and world traveler Thanks Mike (oh I am also the life-long tennis partner of your aunt Jude) Carpe florem, Carpe Diem…seize the flower, seize the day. How many times did this old line from Orlando Furioso by Ariosto…(an epic work from the 1500′s.) come to me as I watched Mike go from childhood exploration, to his fame, and back to his adulthood exploration. Follow you bliss! How simple an admonition and yet how few do it. Thanks for the effort to document you capturing your bliss and reminding us that we all have to search for that place where one feels most alive. Pitty those who never find it and think it comes with the acquistion of material possessions.

“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates

The goal of gathering life enriching activities and serving others is indeed worth living. Rod Liner San Carlos California 2009 Retired High School teacher and world traveler

Thanks Mike (oh I am also the life-long tennis partner of your aunt Jude)

]]> By: Estes http://www.boardistan.com/?p=11998&cpage=1#comment-45038 Estes Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:59:17 +0000 http://www.boardistan.com/?p=11998#comment-45038 I'm in the background! Go Mikey B! I’m in the background! Go Mikey B!

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