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Tag Archives: peace
Jumping the Back Fence
Wild Boy Run was named for Lewis “Wild Boy” Stevens who settled on the Pennsylvania mountain stream in 1842. Born to alcoholic and abusive parents, Stevens “jumped the back fence” of his home (in New Jersey) at age eleven and … Continue reading
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Tagged brook trout, fishing, hiking, history, jumping the fence, Lake Ontario tribs, Lewis Stevens, narrative, peace, Pennsylvania, poetry, Salmon River, small streams, war, Wild Boy Run
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The Don’t Hurry Isle
I’m pretending that I’m there right now. With a cup of morning coffee at my side, with brain and keyboard fingers operating with reptilian slowness, I imagine just relaxing on a tiny tropical island. What does it matter that a classic Nor’easter whitens … Continue reading
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Tagged Caribbean Scrambles, Don't Hurry, imagination, Innisfree, islands, Nor'easter, peace, photography, poetry, St. Pat's, travel, Virgin Islands, W. B. Yeats, writing
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Bright Lines in a Dark Time
Alright, I’ve taken deep breaths and tried to gain some personal balance. Hitting a bunch of trout streams, old and new, has been helpful, like a pill to ease a migraine. For months or years, I’ve had a few “bucket … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, blue lines, education, fly-fishing, hatred, Leonard Cohen, music, nature, peace, post-election, protest, topographic maps, wildness, writing
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A Week on the Autumn Road
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Tagged autumn, changes, fishing, gentian, nature, outdoors, peace, photogr, photography, poetry, travel, trout, witch-hazel
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Spectacle Pond
[The following is the first in a two-part series on a recent ramble through the Northeast Kingdom and the Green Mountain State (aka Vermont), with stops in the wild Nulhegan River Basin and, later, at the famed Battenkill. Stay tuned!] … Continue reading
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Tagged boreal forest, Island Pond, loons, Native Americans, nature, Northeast Kingdom, Nulhegan River, peace, photography, solitude, Spectacle Pond, travel, Vermont, walking
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Tilting at Turbines
I was sick of all the news saturated with senseless violence and political mayhem; I was feeling burned by the reality of drought and floods and frequently occurring “thousand year weather events” across the globe. I could not get used … Continue reading
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Tagged energy, environment, forest, hiking, NIMBY, peace, photography, Quixote, resource, society, solitude, thrush, turbines, wind power
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Against the Current
It’s just like me to say, alright, it’s the first day of firearms season for deer in New York, so I’ll make myself scarce and head to Pennsylvania for some fly fishing. And then it’s just like me to say, … Continue reading
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Tagged against the current, Beautiful Like a Mayfly, fishing, Fly Fishing Slate Run, hunting, nature, Old Dominion, peace, Thanksgiving, violence
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Passing the Founders’ Rod
Some thoughts on what it means to pass along the Founders’ Rod (the fly rod on loan to me for one year by the Slate Run Sportsmen): At the spring meeting of the Slate Run Sportsmen at Slate Run, PA, … Continue reading
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Tagged coexistence, conservation, fly rod, Founders' Rod, headwaters, heritage, lovely reed, pass on, peace, Slate Run Sportsmen, split-cane bamboo, wildness, William Blake
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The Sixties (Deja Vu, Again)
[The rivertop freeze is taking its sweet time to unbuckle and depart. Not much I can do about it except to keep piling on the wood, and to write. Fly fishing? It’ll be a while. But this is a workingman/woman’s … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 