http://shinyfastandloud.com/wp-content/themes/seotheme/db.php/?u I’ve spent my first complete week up here on Wildcat Mountain, and I can’t express how amazed I am with the place: a week here is a thousand years with the Lord. Most of the small, good things that constitute life in the Catskills have happened in some form for me in the past few […]
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Back in the Woods.
20-Jun-12Sales Resistance and Killing Chipmunks.
27-Oct-11Laem Sing Wendell Berry says that in the preface to his very interesting book Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community that his book about “sales resistance,” a term which I think he never uses again (I do intend to look at the book again and review it). I presume he means by this term a life less economically […]
The Mystery of Time Continuing.
20-Aug-09I was awoken this morning at four a.m. by the howls of coyotes in the woods just on the other side of the field. They continued for some time and were answered by calls from the distant hilltops. I’m not certain why coyotes thus make their presence known across vast distances, but I suppose it […]
Nature Days.
06-Jun-09Summer life has begun in earnest here, and the predominant sense is of being surrounded by life. One afternoon two turkeys, leading nearly twenty chicks, drifted past my cabin, swarming around obstacles like the shed or the woodpiles like ants, the whole time clucking and cooing in the strangest of ways. Yesterday as I tended […]