With his grandson, and off Block Island
Tag: A little help from my friends
Old Times
A tribute to my bouncer, or as we usually said “doorman” days in Cambridge and Somerville, and yes it was that bad . I was known as “the mean little one who looks like Jim Morrison”. I was not “mean”; it is just that at 5′ 8″ I could not LOOM like my Alberta- born …
Goshawk
This will be one illo by Eldridge Hardie from a new collection of the works of North Dakota poet and hunter Tim Murphy. He and El gave it to me! I have been a fan of Eldridge’s work for at least as long as the old Gray’s that we both worked at existed. I brought …
Wall Street Journal!
The fine writer Jonathan Rosen (The Life of the Skies) did me the great favor of reviewing Hounds of Heaven for the WSJ Review Supplement’s Christmas Books issue. What is more, he showed that he understood the theme of all of my work. If you don’t subscribe, the review is behind a paywall, but here …
Party!
After a slightly exhausting week, the much – postponed party finally straggled in to Reid and Connie’s country manse in Parker CO on Saturday. Not every one could make it (Smokey Paul and Lynne met us at a Santa Fe highway exit to hand over a pistol for Carlos — we still live in a …
Doggage
Unbelievably, the A-K litter, Ataika and Kyran’s, the first Almaty litter in the US, turned nine yesterday. Shiri sent these photos of her Larissa and Paul’s Zoltar, still in the field… Riss with housemates Tavi and Gaddi Here is their mother with them, the day after their birth, and two months ago, still hunting…
Another Quote
Courtesy of Carlos, and probably from his library which makes my good one look rather anemic.. [He was] “… subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.” (Rabelais, chapter 16 of Gargantua). Carlos examining interesting books from the family library in his own collection in Laramie; I am …
Quote
“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 …
“A Hundred Sorrows”
Old Year news, which I didn’t want to make anyone sad about during the Holidays. In the kind of coincidence weirdly common in falconry– see the quote referenced above and quoted in full below– good friends (and good falconers) lost both my birds in one December week. Rio/ Guero had been brought to the point …
Seasons 2: Big game & harvest
With a little help from my friends– Carlos, Brad, Jim. I am not doing big game these days except in a group, hard in NM if you don’t pay top dollar. Which is why I may move my meat hunts north if health permits… All animals here provided feasts including long- gone lion– see Don …