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  • The Future in My Hand

    10 Jan 2012

    Babies have been affecting me for some time now. But lately, it’s been a different affection. I increasingly marvel at…

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  • Music of the Spheres

    19 Dec 2011

    SB and I held hands as we walked the paths of our friends’ home. Having experienced the European Christmas markets,…

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  • De Queen and 24 Windows

    06 Dec 2011

    My search was unlikely to prove fruitful, 20 or so vintage windows, still intact, identical in build wasn’t likely. So…

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  • The Devil Made Me Do It and Other Half Truths

    18 Nov 2011

    Dad lay in the hospital bed. “Go home to your family,” he told me. “I don’t know how long it…

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  • This week’s Five

    Selected Fire Facts

    1. Over 1million acres burned in wildfires in Texas this summer.

    2. Wildfire is first recorded in the Late Silurian fossil record, 420 million years ago, by fossils of charcoalified plants. Apparently not due to anthropogenic interference.

    3. The name 'bonfire' is believed to be derived from the Celtic custom of burning the bones of the cattle which were slaughtered at Samhain - a 'bone fire'.

    4. Celebratory bonfires have historical precedence in Alpine and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan Scandinavia, Slavic Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and College Station.

    5. "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances", quoted from Jack London in "To Build A Fire'.

  • In the most recent past…

    • Saturday in Patagonia
    • Patagonia…
    • Somewhere over the Austrian Alps, ca. 1991. Approx. 3500m altitude, declining.
    • 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper
    • To Build A Fire
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