Catherine & JL, May ’68 “Vivre sans temps mort!”— the last of the Situationists! Catherine & Lib Muleshoe. First, the ranch: Muleshoe headquarters/Lassez’ house Unloading guns Holiday crowdCatherine & Libby again A Yale med school grad and a guy retired from running an Ohio Audubon refuge (Vince DiMarco , the late Pepe, and John Wilson). …
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Jean Louis Lassez — RIP
My friend Jean Louis Lassez died last week at his Muleshoe Ranch, after a long illness .In the usual course of things I would have known he was not doing well; we were close despite our seemingly disparate backgrounds. Or maybe not so disparate—we were both Catholic school kids, ambivalent about ‘Old Mother Church’, but …
“Dystopian Science Fiction”?
When Malcolm Boyd (Painted Horses, Cloudmaker) saw the article ” All You Can Read” by Parul Sehgal in the November 1 New Yorker , his reaction was “It reads like dystopian science fiction!” Further: ” .., the book ( his recent Cloudmaker)did not garner a single meaningful review in any significant outlet, nor did Grove …
Good Quote
“I prefer a simpler and less fashionable version, which admits that a badger has a real sense of self, and real pleasures that it judges as outweighing its pains. Badgers are philosophers. They have an idea of the Good Life, which presumes there is a self that can lead that life. This is a self …
Jean Louis Lassez – RIP: apology
Sorry — I have not been present for days. Not entirely my fault: between the effects of having no meds for a week and a severe attack of rheumatoid arthritis in my foot, and the continuing absence of any kind of secretary, I have not been up to doing much. In the next few days …
Scout , RIP
Patrick Porter (the best writer you have never read) on “The best bird dog east of the Mississippi”, Scout, from Berwick, Maine. It didn’t go unnoticed that all the orange maple leaves had fallen on our lush green grass. Above us….above my entire family after the sun had set, a million stars showed their …
Baby Birds & Dogs
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HOW WE RAISE BIRDS, A POST THAT DOES NOT NEED ANY TEXT.
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Raising good imprints is possible
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Slowly through a Land of Stone
This is exactly right: