Windsinger: A Portrait of Gary Smith

A. And. When singer is funded in part by a grant from the Pacific network program fund. LA and yours with. Those of us. With your friends. It's all good. Making I have returned to Kenya. And so the Newtown I was a ranger in the maze district where two of the newest and most remote part of the park. There grows. Maybe I'm handicapped but what the hell. Well keep trying. They're going to probably carry me out of there are stretches of it but I'll keep returning cantilever long as I can draw breath. All over the bed to. Blow.

Saw it through the week. Some said OH MY GOD THE DOG EAT DOG EAT MEAT LOAF the. Good in Iowa. Well you're damn right you are said to have. Already done with it. When I'm dancing with the monster multiple sclerosis. It's sometimes necessary to rely more heavily on people than you want to me and in my case I'm very fortunate having friends like Scott Detweiler. I. Didn't think that to get us gorgeous women. I can keep up with you. Right. I think that every time I was in the country I felt the one I. Didn't come to in a blinding blue smoldered. Born-Again flash. Bright. It's just a kind of peacefulness to be there. Listen to the

silence. It's right. In line with the sign. Although sclerosis took away my ability to walk. Carry on in the wilderness. I was OK because I had my music to console me and not take away my music taking away my hand. Probably the thing that bothers me the most is not being able to play the guitar like I used to. That's kind of depressing because. One thing the guitar allowed me to do was to write songs better. I could get songs better. But still given the track record that I. Made the album with Bangura Gregory. Published the book to see your work for the New York Times. Was published by The National Geographic. That all came after I contracted in Mass. Not before.

So maybe the MSA was good in a way kind of put a gun at the back of your head and said you've only got so much time left. Start doing something kid. Let's just let's back up right. Here. When I forced my way up the trail with an electric wheelchair first thing I started thinking in my mind how to redesign a realtor that I have so that it will be out with a monster. After that outing the one. With the soup. Feel below they think it's a. Good thing. Mole hill school runs into bannable disease because it's so capricious and unpredictable.

But because of the wonderful relationship I've had with the wilderness around me it's kind of given me the staying power that a lot of persons blown their heads off because they couldn't cope with me to make me accountable enough to go in the war. Just. Because you know how rude you should. Try to get out there and peer off a cliff and lie like your quilt or maybe get a run at it try to leap the Colorado Evil Knievel is battery powered rocket powered wheelchair. There you go. It's intoxicating that country is intoxicating. It would be nice to be able to get back at my old ranger district and be a ranger

again. I'd rather not to die of thirst after hash. Get raw fiber and have found I find myself. Find a travel route find a broken pot that the end dropped maybe three or four thousand years ago. I've had that experience. So I can always go back and draw on that when things get tough. That's fine. The boys said if you. See one red rock you see him.

Now it's it's really pretty overwhelming as a quote writer unquote. I find myself very short words. You get to see riots in layers. Under ads of millions of years laying up before you're in multicolored kaleidoscope of. Rock. Rock. That's being carved and whether it makes you feel pretty damned insignificant. Every time I see the Colorado here I see it being sort of the lifeline that brought me and explain it together. It was sort of my. Guy or. Mentor helped introduce me to the desert. It was during a. Flight and one of Dick's their plans he was a boy. It was very very rough. I bounced up and cracked my head and I heard a melody and we fled out of that

canyon. We retreated with a melody in hand. Which eventually grew them into a song called. I don't know I don't seem much of the Swallow. I guess its price is right this remind me of the actor who.

Helped. Spawn a song Hey what's happening to the folks who are back. I hear the call around his rock I think of Decca rock. Like it crashed. He had taken a bunch of park biologists out to study big horn sheep in the plant across Iraq. When I hear the wind blowing I guess I know a bit thicker around the earth from play. Once time. In your juggling bubble talk. All you see is bullets. You blood you're. Not Us normal but all but it's not.

Over the street. We're. All looking at stall stall. To me. This is Americans across America America the grandest parts of America right here in this room many. Rooms in artwork and. This is the only record we have. Of man's continual spiritual and physical presence in the area for maybe 10000 years and they'd come along and they'd spray painted or if you didn't use it for target practice. Practice. It's.

Just a slip to me. Well join us. Oh you still with that story. Just follow the oldies BOWL 0 0 or 0 1. And you look at the National Park. The world and system the National Forest.

If anything makes America great it's what. We've done with our land. Wilderness is not a playground for the elite and those who foist that kind of a myth off on the people. You have to examine their motives for why they're foisting it. And there's been a tremendous attempt to sell off your public land. And I really appealed to the American public to stymie these bastards just like you would if you saw a woman being raped on the street. They're doing some very very evil things that will have tremendous long lasting consequences. We will see.

Through. The spring. One of the big arguments of the battery would run our wellness of the. Is it. May. Get him enjoy the country right. Oh sure I had my chance. I have those memories stored away to help me through the rough time. I think a growing time and again in my hundred. And a year later to Birkenau going to Iraq and became a broader political.

Rights he said he was trying to remember as much as UK. Because every time it got rough. We could go back. Well. I pity the poor bastards that don't have rights like this never. Go back. I do get to go back to my mind. I didn't think that. There are a lot of friends in Southern Utah that I admire greatly. They're very stimulating and when I get depressed or something like that it's nice to be able to get a recharge from one of them. When I even say I. Don't like it you know part of this is an all terrain vehicle. AC is one of the few honest to god cowboys and I know he was twice all around in C double a cowboy in the country.

He has taught me and my country to you know you get that magic about time you got out of town in it. Oh my oh my underwear got very excited. His family have been cattlemen all their lives. But he said he's a tough little guy. Sort of like it reminds me of the Black Angus. Short compact I'm just ready to take on the world. Yeah it's good that they have finally come online. You're very welcome. Now or Never. Thanks Fred. Yeah. I would like to say that we're friends but of course I was a Park Service ranger and AC and his family all looked askance at government workers. But I think that probably one of the finest tributes I've ever had was.

A C asked me to come and to sing and his father's funeral. You see when it birds fly around here I said Well how about some light colored crim morning or something easier for me to play. I got down he had to have birds fly around or printed out on the future to prove he was going to have birds flying under it are going to have my ass. But it was wonderful. I was that one of the greatest honors I think I ever had seeing in North Korea. I record spirit. Church like like cutting horse is a real honest to god cowboy song just dedicated to the likes of AC Acker and other friends of mine that I've met that I would classify as real cowboys without the feathers on their hats and no shit on their birds. Well not now stay on the Backstreet Boys talk till just now son. Into the money any teaching

thing he told. Me show not just God bless you good we're golden all. You like on a crowded morning. Was written by my grandpa about my Grandpa Sam and my grandma pantry. Sam is kind of a tender man but he wasn't a very. Eloquent man necessarily He was a man of the soil. So I use a grandchild's box a colored crown. Describe the colors of the song. Early in the morning when I woke up. And he left the room very quietly. So it has a good sleep a few more minutes.

Just the doctor. Lighting up the rosemary. The early dawn. Of the summer. Color. Slip song where the window. Spreads across the. Grass on my walk. Far more. Open to your

sparkling with. The rain drops into. The sky. Loaded to the spring these condos. So all right I was outside. And stepped outside to agree with you or not disturb the other. Morning. You are. Really my life. She's really a tremendous artist all the same time he's being nursed by me and she's working he's doing through and

doing them all very well. She is preparing her master's Schildt. He's going to finish her masters degree before I go back. I got dragged to the desert is it because I want to live to have her there and because I realize that she's getting something right she made her and own place and Arlen Specter just he and my monster don't mix well at all. So I come in period garage with cooldown that I'll go with that. All all life is after your contract is bad or disease is a constant series of flanking attack. I think about the old Marine Corps days and I'll decide to structure he said. Well if it's really bad candidates Thank god tomorrow is going to get worse. Do you think I. Am asked to do all kinds of strange things.

I've been blind in my left eye. I was blind for one month and my right eye. Fortunately the vision came back. It's such a capricious disease sometimes it'll drop into remission and hopefully I'll be able to walk. It's a lot of pressure on the right wing. You would have to think it's made it closer. Just as However survivor and I are more appreciative I think of what she does provide. Us to rely on our self made her stronger maybe more independent more self-reliant like ours. Just trying to get out of bed in the morning is a tough one. I'm just trying to get up right once in a while I walk a few feet. Right now it's a victory to do six foot laps on the parallel bars as opposed to three Tetons in one day.

He just. Stands there. And he. Just sort of moves all up and down the central nervous system taking its shots and giving you a constant source of surprises. It makes me wonder about priorities because for the price of one and MX missile I could probably put enough money into research to rebut world of it as they're busy with.

Getting a. Little tipsy to stand being suckered mamma so I might learn to know you and love you used to have seen. Oh. But my mind's been changing with it I see you know with a lot of thank God that your still here give me food to share. Oh it's been a long. Time deep below the receipt speak sweet

deeds speak. Louder the loveseat. Looks weak. To the beat. Above our house there's a ridge that we call the power spot the power spot was referring in trying to buy Native Americans. Who came from one of the problems down south all the way up here. When I was having a bad time physically. And so he helped me in terms of by my allegiance with Mother Earth. It means that we go. To

meditate watch the sun come up amazing Greaves watch the earth come alive. For years and years we've had the news talking about Mother Earth father son rethought there are cute little fairy ring out. There really were the magic glide. Cure that hot. Circuit. For being. There.

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