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Loon Laughter
Warbling up great canyons, drifting over silent spaces of time. When the moon fills, when the night is soft, loon laughter transforms...
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First Light
In the pale first reflection, daylight approaches. it comes to us quietly, slow and soft. It wakes us from shadow, it prods us with rude...
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Live Within the Ambiguity
We search the margins of the world for a returning voice. We ply, in the deepest parts of the night, for starships to carry us, born upon...
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The Canoe Paddle
Who knows where I have travelled, who can tell where I have been? I’ve seen the lodges watching west, I’ve been to continents then...
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Gracious Beginnings
We are a band of brothers, a fleet of sisters and mothers, fellow-travellers into the dense thicket of lakes and streams, portages...
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Hypotheticals: Chasing Phantoms
A great weight we can carry if we only think about what might or could occur. Do you do this with situations such as we are facing right...
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Swamp Merry-Golds
Marigolds first appear in the ditches, far before the summer crowd. They are the first to signal the birth of spring. They lie in low...
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Spring Wait
Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold It is becoming...
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So Soon the Thunder Rolls
In the distance the thunder but the mosquitoes are swarming. Life implodes. From out of the shadows and swampy places, they ferry and...
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You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.
In this particular time, we need templates from what has gone on before. I turn to Ernest Shackleton. In January 1915, his ship was...
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