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Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
03 April, 2019

Field Notes, from March 29 2019: Oh, The Humanities

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Air palpable with earnest outcries read to the appropriate audience words spent on prayers to gods too busy to grant wishes (From m...
27 March, 2019

Field Notes, 26 March 2019: Savage Bones, Savage Beauty

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Nice, if chilly, walk to a neighborhood coffeeshop. True, there was a Starbucks closer, but I wanted to find something local, something ...
30 May, 2012

Homo Viator (The Westward Expanse) The Rash, Part 2

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. -- Marcel Proust  I...
28 May, 2012

Homo Viator (The Westward Expanse): The Rash, Part 1

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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. -- Henry David Thoreau A thick skin is a gift from God. -- Konrad Adenauer Traveling can teach you to...
21 May, 2012

Homo Viator (Westward Expanse): Minneapolis Proper Part 2

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(For Liz Frazier, since she asked) From the sundry cast of supporting characters that will tell you all you need to know about Minneapolis.....

Homo Viator (Westward Expanse) -Minneapolis Proper, Part 1

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It's all one long story, and we're all in it. And the best we can hope for is that it's well told. - Utah Phillips It is one of ...
17 May, 2012

Homo Viator (Westward Expanse) - Travel Hungover, Part 3: Minneapolis

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine -- they are the life, the soul of reading... -Laurence Stern, Tristram Shandy There are better ...
15 May, 2012

Homo Viator (Westward Expanse) -Travel Hungover, Part 2: Kansas City

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We know that all is impermanent; we know that everything wears out. Although we can buy this truth intellectually, emotionally we have a dee...
13 May, 2012

Homo Viator (Westward Expanse) – Travel Hungover: Leaving St. Louis

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Detachment is enlightenment because it negates appearances. - Bodhidharma, The Wake Up Sermon When I started this leg of the trip a few week...
08 May, 2012

Homo Viator: The Westward Expanse -- Hannibal, MO (Also Titled, The Mysterious Box)

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Hannibal has had a hard time of it ever since I can recollect, and I was "raised" there. First, it had me for a citizen, but I was...
07 May, 2012

Homo Viator: The Westward Expanse - St. Louis

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. -- Rumi Dear Readers, I FINALLY broke the barrier, somehow snea...