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The Elder Function of Surfing at Huanchaco
I have never surfed. Or ever really tried. I’ve swam in the ocean. I’ve body surfed. And in my youth I used boogie boards on loan from time to time. And I’ve loved the ocean...
Leaping Man, Leaping Carp, Leaping Dragon: The Animal Ancestor
In the last few days a friend sent me this image above. He thought I would like it. And I did. But it was sent without any sense that it had any meaning beyond “this...
In The Presence of the Ancient Sulawesi Pig: A Remembering
I came across these two prayers for pig hunters recently… ‘Dear Lord. May all dogs be blessed with your grace. To all who wander the fields and forests, may you guide them safely back to...
Soil: The Steady Decay
The last few days have brought the biggest snowfalls in New York City, where I live, in quite some time after many years of quite mild winters or at least light on snow. One of...
The Tree, The Squirrel, The Superflight: On The Propitious Flight of Finches
If you live in the northern half of the United States or Canada you will know that the trees there produce fruit, seeds, and nuts that hang out all winter. Sometimes still on the branches...
The Scrambling True Mirror
If I ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity’s displayed: I’m looking for the face I had Before the earth was made – William Butler Yeats, Before The World Was Made,...
The Media Ecology of the Feather Born Brush
When a reporter asked Marilyn Monroe if she had anything on during her nude photo sessions for Playboy, she famously said “the radio.” While this was a funny rejoinder it speaks to the way that...
The Soul of The Viking Sword: Burnt Bones of Thy Ancestors For Vigor
Even if you don’t have heritage from Scandinavia, if I said “viking” to you and asked for your associations I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a few references to Thor or Odin or some other...
The Blinkered Eye, The Deafened Ear
Last year, 1806, one of the Osages, then in Washington for the first time, was taken to see the frigates and gun boats in the Eastern branch – when the Captain of the Port made...
Indigo: More Beautiful With Time
There is an old story that comes from Western Africa that tells of a time when the sky was closer to the earth. And this story is also of a woman who lived in the...
