Tuesday Wed Oct 8-9, 2013

Shipwreck takes town back to War of 1812

Deep dig in the backyard offers glimpse of ice age

'Boarding' mentally ill becoming epidemic in state

Russian team searches for lost Soviet bomber in Alaska
New encephalitis outbreak in India's Uttar Pradesh

Nepal arrests 14 over rhino poaching

UK firm seeks to market world's first malaria vaccine

Rick Price

Changes....wasn't it just yesterday that I was young and had 6 kids at home and one in Germany in the US Army Band....The cover shot isn't my cabin. I wasn't that talented nor did I have the money it takes to build that kind of octagon. It was built by Topiswor, a given Indian name for Carl Hanning who was at one time married to River and they had two kids Osha and Eena.

I never got around to changing my name. Several folk in the Okanogan Highlands still have their chosen names...like Bearpaw, Buffalo and Skeeter. Anyone wanting to put their chosen name go ahead....See I was part of the hip generation...listening to bongos or some out of tune guitar with 2 strings...people thought that was heavy...and we read Alan Watts and Ram Dass and Father Thomas Merton.....and Carl Jung whom I personally loved.

My cabin was on the other side of the valley an up 2 and a half miles of primitive road. The electricity stopped at 1 1/2. No running water so we hauled water from places long ago closed...fun times though.....I was healthy. I carried a chain saw like it was a small bowling ball..I hauled 8 foot lengths of tamarac to my rig,,, then drove to my cabin where I bucked it up into smaller pieces to dry over summer...intent to keep us warm in winter with our one small wood burning stove. I wrote a lot about it... Coyote; A Guide to Wilderness Living. It is going to come out on iPads as a book app next year...

I have not heard from Topishwor since 1992. He is a counselor over in Tacoma I believe. If you ever run into him....tell him I want to give him guitar lessons:-) If that doesn't give him a chuckle then nothing will...and perhaps...just maybe..nothing will. He left his past in the mountains...many do...many die there. The wilderness will get you eventually. It has a life of its own..and you have to be careful...you're a good meal to many critters.. or maybe a neighbors unwarranted bullet. Ive seen that as many as I have seen suicides...it's quiet....up there is a silence.....I can still hear the silence....can you?

Picture by Jane Shannon 

Dennis Wuerth Do I understand President Obama to be saying that he will negotiate with the GOP only after they give him everything he wants and re-opens the government?

 

I am not worthy of answering that question. I am not government orient. Our country was buit by my own forefathers. I used to vote but felt badly about every outcome. In other words, I lost. I do the same with gambling. Independent mind, I just sort of stroll down life's highway and wish everyone could get along? But the closer folks get, the more arguments they have. See? I say peace. They say war. I am for Peace. Let it go at that...

 

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 Kathy Meader finds a short person navigating her ship!

 

 Do You Remember? Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.