An idea

[Roger]

My neighbor lives in the trackless wilderness of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. This might seem strange as I live in Southern Arizona, almost in Mexico. Sam is in his mid nineties and lives across the road from me when Southern Arizona is somewhat cool, which is winter when Northern Alaska is solid ice. He waits down here for the ice in his lake to melt allowing a float plane to land. The float plane then deposits him and his eighty-year-old wife (he is a cradle robber)next to the lake for an Arctic summer. It is an 80 mile hike from the nearest native village. Aside from living with few outside dependencies, Sam hunts, lives, and writes books about living and hunting above the Arctic circle. I will share a quote from one of his books because it is relevant to SketchuUping, "Idea comes from the Greek and Latin meaning form or model. All that remained (referring to the hoof prints of migrating caribou) to mark the snow was an 'idea' of their passing."

It will be a long summer waiting for Sam Wright to return from Alaska given that at his age he might not return and I have a lot to learn from him. But I bought three of his books on the assumption that when the temperature in Arizona gets over 115 degrees F, reading Sam's books about the Arctic will be a cool thing to do. Isn't it a cool thing to know that "idea" and "model" are so closely related?

[mitcorb]

Very interesting, Roger:
Thank you for sharing this gentleman's story, and the info about "idea" and "model". These insights really are priceless, and I appreciate them.