I’ve been meaning to read some Aldo Leopold for a while, and yesterday I was fortunate to stumble across what I think is one of his most famous essays, “Thinking Like a Mountain.” It’s a brief piece, but one in which Leopold goes from a killer of wolves to understanding the complexity of the wild. [...]
Every trip into the canoe country leaves me with lasting memories of the skies. Venturing into the watery lands on the Minnesota-Ontario border has left me with countless vivid images of clouds stretching across broad expanses. Brilliant or hazy blues, bold or stained whites, aquariums of every shape of cloud or vacant voids that leave [...]
Erich over at Cached Memories summed up the weekend-before-last in southeastern Minnesota better than I could, but I still feel obligated to post something…
Here’s the rundown.
I did a lot of
But only caught one
There were
and
everywhere.
It was just really nice to just spend time around
See a beautiful, new-to-me
and drive some good
Common Blue Violet (click the image for a nice desktop background)
So the Star Tribune did a decent piece on Gary Snyder a week before his appearance in St. Paul. The big pull quote that flagged the story on the front page of the “Variety” section was
“Wilderness is not, as Thoreau said, ‘the preservation of the world.’ It Is the World.”
Just a few days ago, the [...]
This post exists for no other reason to give props to Erich at Cached Memories for a beautiful piece of writing about memory, place, and… smells.
When I left Duluth briefly after college I arrived home (at my parents’) in the fall. Farmers were harvesting their crops and the air was sweet and dry with dusty [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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