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Notes from a Sleepless Night
Notes from a Sleepless Night
I came downstairs last night for a warm cup of milk to help ease my agitation. Before returning to bed I glanced at the clock on the radio 2:22. What might the meaning of 222 be if no clocks existed at all? What makes this moment special in the mechanistic construct of 222? Sleepily, I wonder, would I stop breathing if there were no 222? The answer is, of course not, 222 is not my flesh norâŚ
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Itâs Not Just Republican Propaganda Nonsense
Itâs Not Just Republican Propaganda Nonsense
An open letter to my moderate liberal challengers To conflate progressive criticism with right wing attacks is divisive at best, and disables critical dialogue at its worse. It is an authoritarian and patriarchal tool used to silence the much needed examination of neoliberal policies whose hollow rhetoric of caring is corrupted by a close relationship to multinational corporations and theirâŚ
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Lessons from the Road
Lessons from the Road
Itâs been a year since our summer road trip. Weâve covered thousands of miles since then, punctuated by two frigid cross-country, storm-eluding, highway-closing for Wyoming wind, driving the snow-covered-dirt-road-detour for miles, turn-the-car-on-in-the-middle-of-the-night to warm our metal tent parked at countless rest areas, fast-red-road-country[1] crisscrossing moves to the farm; all theâŚ
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Taking my trauma to the mountain
Taking my trauma to the mountain
I went to the mountains with the overwhelming burden of my failing financial life embedded in my chest. Foreclosure, eviction, overdrawn checking account âI owned the whole ballâand it wormed its way to my deeper places like an alien parasite that grew and waited to burst through my chest taking my last bit of life force with it. It didnât matter if everything else was going well in my life, thatâŚ
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There is something rotten in Denmark: transforming life, scholarship, and writing toward a more sustainable paradigm âor âyouâve got the craft skills, now what are you going to do with it? Anyone alive who is paying attention knows that we are on a crash course toward climate destruction and that the burning of fossil fuels is the key culprit.
The Scope of the Land: zooming in and out to find real hope
The Scope of the Land: zooming in and out to find real hope
When Ron and I left for our seven thousand mile road trip almost six weeks ago I knew it would change me. Itâs something we used to expect from âvacationsâ, especially back in the day when family vacations were part of the norm and summertime promised a much needed long respite from the trials of K-12. Back in the not so long ago days when it was common knowledge that renewal was a necessaryâŚ
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Opinel French Folding Kitchen Knife
Opinel French Folding Kitchen Knife
I ate breakfast this morning on my friendâs porch in Prescott AZ. A left over piece of steak with a small omelet, fresh brewed coffee and buttered sourdough toast as I sat in the sun stretching like a sleepy dog in the non-humid, mountain surrounded wonder of this high desert. Whippoorwills punctuated waves of cicada white-noise. Breeze puffs rustled the junipers. I cut my steak with an OpinelâŚ
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In Context: the relationships that nurture a resilient future I wouldn't be honest if I said this road trip had not begun with any structural or thematic perimeters.
Soylent Tornadoes
Itâs hard to write when you are on a road trip. Harder still when you are camping. But when the mosquitoes and tornadoes come at you, itâs time to hunker down in a hotel with a bottle of wine and a king sized bed and rest up. Hot shower. It was good. Maybe not as cool as taking a bath in a Minnesota lake by moonlight (with several loons cat-calling from a safe distance), but refreshing andâŚ
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Visions to Change the Narrative
Visions to Change the Narrative
Driving through the open lands of eastern Oregon and Idaho on our way up to Yellowstone Park I am mesmerized. The open landscape is like a sponge that soaks up all of the civilized thoughts and voices that contain the montage of competing needs of my current daily existence. Out here, the balance of checking accounts or even the numerous books and articles crammed into my mind from the pursuit ofâŚ
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
  âAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahâ -everyman/woman the day before leaving on a six week road trip. NOTE: This was written before we left â we have only just now gotten to the point where we can post it. Note to fellow road trippers: There is no cell service in Yellowstone â and there is no 4G in Montana (if you are on MetroPCS) Tomorrow is the day. Karen made the reservations at the firstâŚ
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The Writers Road Trip
The Writers Road Trip
This is a reprint of an article we wrote for The Writer in the World. Descended at least culturally if not genetically from the ranks of our most exulted literary road warriors â writers like John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey â my wife Karen Walasek and I have exercised and exorcised our wanderlust cyclically throughout our forty year marriage. There have been many, many journeysâŚ
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