Yes, a bit of a cliche, but this talk isn’t. Harry Greene is not just the author of THE book on snakes, and a wonderful naturalist’s autobiography; he also writes (as I have) for the Center for Humans and Nature, a thoroughly original “think tank”. (Mine was on “Nonhuman Partners in the Hunt”; and Malcolm …
Author: Steve Bodio
Back in the Saddle #1: “The Lit’ry Life”
Which was the title of George V Higgins’ weekly survey of writing in the Boston Globe back in the seventies, which formed my template for my Review at Gray’s, which in some way led to my appearances here… If I don’t blog a bit I get worried that I will never catch up to the …
Where am I?
I’m working on my long- contemplated dog and Central Asia book, and trying not to be tempted by the seductions of the Net. I wouldn’t have much original to say anyway, only links, because I am trying to “save” thoughts for the book. I’ll probably be back sooner than later but I need to honor …
Coffee Table Still Life
Helen is published in Vogue. It must be the first time the act of befriending a Goshawk has been featured there. (tip from Randy D). She has also gotten a second prestigious literary prize, this time the Costa, I think what used to be called the Whitbread.
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“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature–a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” Rob Macfarlane, in The Old Ways ; sent by Guy Boyd. As Bruce Chatwin quoted, from St Jerome I think, Solvitur ambulando. Would that I could still walk the way …
ISIS hates pigeons
Yes, I know; first Patrick, then others, sent me the news that ISIS is now executing pigeon fanciers, some teenagers. I did predict it a few pages ago. Long ago, I concluded that tyrants tend to get rid of pigeons. Not only are they a primitive form of clandestine, encrypted conversation; watching at them fly …
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The late Rio chases a pigeon… (click to enlarge)
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Carlos Martinez del Rio’s photo of a “Magpie print”, in new snow in Wyoming…
Images, painted
A new Thomas Quinn (see J P Parker’s perceptive article in Ranch and Riata)… And an old favorite Russell Chatham oil (favorite of both Reid Farmer’s and mine), in the Denver Museum, an almost abstract painting of a favorite place on his grandfather Gottardo Piazzoni’s ranch in Big Sur, titled “No Place for Disdain”:
Links…
Serious stuff, really. Jonathan Katz at Bedlam Farm Journal has been carrying a pretty heavy load by being the point man on the controversy, almost entirely fabricated by those who know nothing about animals, over banning the Central Park carriage horses. (If animals needed psychologists, those horses would be happy; as Freud knew, love and …