Retiring Old Mama

The last few years, we’ve been working Old Mama into retirement. She’s a fine old dog that has traveled many, many miles accompanying her flocks from the low desert to the high mountains each year. We gradually placed her with flocks following shorter trails, and finally stopped allowing her to trail to winter range a …

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Sort of back…

 I assume that the readers of this blog are lucid enough that they realize things have not  exactly been going well.  It is no one thing; it is EVERY thing. It is mortality and decay and entropy and luck, and admitting when you CAN’T play today.. It is realism. Look, fans, I have written some …

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Visions of Helen

“I.m not answering that!” https://youtu.be/TcwmHDCl75U Radio with Lauren: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0d0 With Mary Karr, another absolute favorite: https://youtu.be/TcwmHDCl75U The new TV show: luminously SANE falconry: <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/h-hawk-new-chapter-author-helen-mcdonald-h-hawk-new-chapter/15581/>