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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Harvesting Beechnuts.

12-Oct-13

http://busingers.ca/category/news/ It’s been a bad year for a lot of garden crops for me – if the deer can eat they have – but for fruit and nuts it’s been extraordinary – heavy peaches, heavy apples, heavy walnuts.  And now the beechnuts are starting to drop to the forest floor, and it’s a superb year for […]

Alta petant aquilae.

02-Oct-13

buy provigil online reviews A day off, and I couldn’t help myself – I just had to get into the high mountains.  Here’s where I spent much of my day, on this rock.  Almost ready to burst with the happiness of being immersed in the unearnedly beautiful.

Some Thoreau.

02-Oct-13

What a writer this guy is.  And so beautiful a soul.  On loneliness: But like those women of Malamocco and Pelestrina [towns on the Venetian lagoon], who when their husbands are fishing at sea, repair to the shore and sing their shrill songs at evening, till they hear the voices of their husbands in reply […]

Graduate School.

01-Oct-13

A friend told me on Saturday that he was considering going to grad school – either for an MFA or an MBA.  The funny thing was that I sensed that if he wanted to paint and be an artist, he should get the MBA, and if he was going to be a businessman, he should […]

Working the Garlic Festival.

01-Oct-13

For the past few days, I’ve been frenetically busy, but framed, as hard work often is, by quiet, melancholy moments – and in those moments I’ve heard this music. I worked the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival for Catskill Native Nursery this past weekend, and the carnival atmosphere and silly joy of these events is always […]