“The oldest task in human history is to live
on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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34 ~ In hard times, softness.
Dear readers, welcome to 2021! Well, let’s see what this trip around the sun brings… As this new year unfolds, and we navigate both political tensions and ongoing efforts to alleviate Covid-19, I’ll share a couple of brief ‘guest editorials’ gleaned from readings this week…
33 ~ The bounty of winter, and no GS.
As I start to write this on a late December afternoon, the winter sky like a watercolor, nuthatches and downy woodpeckers outside the window drill into chunks of rich, white suet from a doe I shot a couple of weeks ago. An hour earlier I watched two golden eagles…
32 ~ Good eatings
I write with hopes that my fellow American friends had a fine, even if somewhat different, Thanksgiving holiday last week. I was alone here at the farmhouse, but I didn’t let that stop me from a good meal…
31 ~ Remembering connection, with gratitude.
Greetings. I’m just back from a morning of deer hunting in the snow, in the woods up behind the house. As I write this I’m warming up by the fire, with a hot coffee and some plum schnapps from Switzerland…
29 ~ Feral apples and first milk
Greetings! My apologies for the recent bout of silence. I’ve been traveling the last couple of weeks, and so doing more ‘watching out the window’ than writing to the page…
28 ~ Welcome back
These have not been easy days since my brother Jim’s death a few weeks ago, and one thing I can do for my soul is return to the slipstream of writing…
27 ~ Turning
Welcome to August. Today brings the full moon, the Sturgeon Moon (no such thing as a Trout Moon I guess). While it’s not actually the last full moon of summer., it feels like it, especially as it’s being reinforced by a week of cooler weather. This morning, I can feel the turn toward autumn…
26 ~ In this together
Greetings. Many thanks to all who joined together and contributed ideas for the ‘desert island shopping list’. Here’s a summary of the results…
25 ~ Brook no imitation
Last Tuesday morning I returned to the ‘Taliesen stream’, the clear little ribbon near Spring Green that recently offered up a few brook trout, all of which I had to release. This time I hoped to find a brown trout for my dinner…
