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observing the unseen, hearing the unheard, remembering the forgotten, imagining the unknown

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Inconvenience as a Capital Offense (blog entry) Residents of Biltmore Lake are pissed. They paid good money for picture postcard views from their McMansions, and now the damned beavers are starting to do what beavers do - gnaw on trees. This will be grist for a few more newspaper stories, but i... read more

blog entry posted Wed, December 20, 2006 - 8:49 AM permalink - 1 comment

Birds and Hopes (blog entry) When I returned from hell, I learned how heartbreakingly beautiful even one leaf can be. When I was training myself to live, I’d close my eyes and open them to see a tree as if it were the first tree I’d ever seen. Then again, I’d close my eyes ... read more

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Carlton McNeill (blog entry) I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of picking wild fruit. It is a mark of deep impoverishment when that job goes undone. Especially when it's all but impossible to find better employment.

So the letter in this week’s Cashiers Crossr... read more

blog entry posted Thu, December 14, 2006 - 7:43 PM permalink - 1 comment

Grow Your Own (blog entry) I recall picking up a dusty Popular Science magazine from the early 1950s. It predicted that by the year 1985 the post office would be using guided missiles to deliver the mail. Attempts to forecast the future can be ridiculous failures. On the... read more

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Top 10 Reasons I'll Observe Kwanzaa Instead of Christmas (blog entry) 10. Walmart greeters won’t feel compelled to wish me “Merry Kwanzaa”
9. I won’t see any six foot tall plastic Kwanzaa snow globes
8. No one I know has any traumatic memories of Kwanzaas past
7. The radio will never blare “It’s Beginning to Loo... read more

blog entry posted Wed, December 6, 2006 - 12:11 PM permalink - 0 comments

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Inconvenience as a Capital Offense

Residents of Biltmore Lake are pissed. They paid good money for picture postcard views from their McMansions, and now the damned beavers are starting to do what beavers do - gnaw on trees. This will be grist for a few more newspaper stories, but it’s easy to see where this is headed. In the words of one observer, “Western North Carolina is being developed to death.”

I remember walking out one evening to inspect an apple tree near Wilson Creek. From a distance I could see something was amis... read more

Wed, December 20, 2006 - 8:49 AM permalink - 1 comment

Birds and Hopes

When I returned from hell, I learned how heartbreakingly beautiful even one leaf can be. When I was training myself to live, I’d close my eyes and open them to see a tree as if it were the first tree I’d ever seen. Then again, I’d close my eyes and open them to see that tree as if it were the last tree I’d ever see.

I admire bird watchers for the same reasons I admire landscape painters. Both have a heightened ability to perceive the miracles that others walk past, that others ignore, t... read more

Sun, December 17, 2006 - 9:43 PM permalink - 0 comments

Carlton McNeill

I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of picking wild fruit. It is a mark of deep impoverishment when that job goes undone. Especially when it's all but impossible to find better employment.

So the letter in this week’s Cashiers Crossroads Chronicle caught my attention:

"Dear Editor,
Who will pick the berries this summer? Not Carlton. He is all tucked in at the Chatham Creek Rest Home, near Raleigh. But his legend lives on.

Rarely do you remember the date that you met someo... read more

Thu, December 14, 2006 - 7:43 PM permalink - 1 comment

Grow Your Own

I recall picking up a dusty Popular Science magazine from the early 1950s. It predicted that by the year 1985 the post office would be using guided missiles to deliver the mail. Attempts to forecast the future can be ridiculous failures. On the other hand, Dick Tracy was carrying a cell phone for decades before the rest of us, so prognostication might be of some value.

As oil starts to go bye-bye, and then some time after America's war with China to secure the dwindling reserves of it,... read more

Fri, December 8, 2006 - 1:31 PM permalink - 0 comments

Top 10 Reasons I'll Observe Kwanzaa Instead of Christmas

10. Walmart greeters won’t feel compelled to wish me “Merry Kwanzaa”
9. I won’t see any six foot tall plastic Kwanzaa snow globes
8. No one I know has any traumatic memories of Kwanzaas past
7. The radio will never blare “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Kwanzaa”
6. I won’t be reminded of how many shopping days are left until Kwanzaa
5. When I discuss the holidays, I won’t be surprised when no one knows what the hell I’m talking about
4. I won’t see one commercial telling me what I h... read more

Wed, December 6, 2006 - 12:11 PM permalink - 0 comments

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