And an even more thoughtful one from Tom Davis here.
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True Writing Quote
From Walter Hingley: “Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along. I have no warm-up exercises, other than …
Attitudes to Predators
I just got an email from Al Cambronne, who has a new blog Deerland here, and book coming out at Lyons by the same name. He wrote an interesting post on how public attitudes toward three predators– muskies, wolves, and (Bald) eagles differ as exemplified in his home state of Wisconsin. I found the discussion …
Necessary accessories
Within the last month, but in separate incidents, two Casper, Wyoming women made local news for their actions thwarting armed robberies. The first was in early December. The setting: a local nail salon. A man entered the salon and approached the women inside about the possibility of purchasing some diamonds from him, a notion declined …
Some lines…
From a short story by Phil Grayson, sometime Q contributor and local descendant, soon to be published in the literary magazine Aloud (links to come)… “If you walk west from Avenue B late at night, you have to swim, but eventually you can get to the desert. Tack a bit south. “The smoke comes up …
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
What drought and an invasive Asian exotic can do in a hard winter– all this and zero at night, at Lee Henderson’s where we chase things- photos from Lee. That is his house on the right in the third pic; in the first, that fencerow is likely higher than your head. Ranching for a living, …
Artists and Time Passing
Tom Quinn RACED through with wife Jeri today en route from her aunt’s old house in Tularosa (no quail this year) over the subzero divide toward rainy Point Reyes. The snapshot though hardly great connects a lot of dots. (As always right or double click to see bigger). Upper left is a Vadim Gorbatov original …
“New” Petroglyph
… from none other than Andrey Kovalenko— see below. Andrey says: “This rock art is located in (تیمره) Golpaygan, Isfahan in the central part of Iran. GP Location is: 33° 38′ 31.43″ N 50° 19′ 27.30″ E. There have not been any scientific examination (Magnetic Polarity Chronology, Uranium Thorium, Carbon 14 HL) to date the …
Nomenclature
Annie Davidson sent our tiny aging, nostalgic, and usually goofy Zoo group (we have known each other since, what, 1970?) a provocative essay contra the Linnaean binomial system. I think she was poking a stick in an anthill, but I am afraid it pushed a few buttons! I was provoked to editorialize… “The author’s criticisms …
New Year Dogs
Tavi & Gaddi from Shiri