Winter blues are opportunities/Ghosts in Asheville

Asheville is very much a March through mid November town.

This is a simple reality of a mountain city with a tourist/fresh food economy.

Typically the days are gray and drab, the night comes early etc.

Ah, but the bones of Asheville are ripe, the parks, the rivers, the road ways are nearly abandoned of vehicular traffic.

These are all opportunities to better ones skills and creative capacities. The quiet of night allows for learning with not distractions. Languages, Philosophy both Western and Eastern, Computer Programming and Repair. Even "lesser" skills such as becoming a public notary or becoming certified in things such a Time Management or learning new ways of Marketing, all there without distractions simply for the Guerrilla who is willing to put in the effort.

These are the possibilities, then physically with empty road ways bike commuting becomes far easier. And healthier as the cold, dense mountain air causes the lungs to become stronger. Such work always bares fruit as mentally and physically one will be peaking when the weather turns warm and Asheville becomes the sort of "New Orleans lite" that is sort of is.

Only Asheville is an odd town, we are #2 in Pabst Blue Ribbon consumption, and have more breweries per capita, there is an underlying intellectualism that permeates the town, Amateur intellectualism of course, still it is there. In Asheville is nothing to chat about Miyamoto Musashi or St Augustine or Kant in even a tiki bar like the Yacht Club.

I suspect when Tourists visit they assume the accommodating that happens is a product of a sort of innate shyness or "southern hospitality"'. Not so, more as the Villages in Southeast Asia saw American soldiers, mere ghosts passing through the landscape, pay them no mind but do be nice.

Who wishes to anger a ghost?