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When I drive back into the mouth of the South Toe River Valley my eyes have to swell just to take it all in. Over-exposed to air conditioning and the elegant simplicity of the shrine room all [...]

(Written Saturday night) I begin to wonder if I know who I am at all without someone to bounce off of. Relative to nothing, what remains of who I am that can be named or seen; stable? The weekend [...]

I find myself in Big City, NC for a weekend meditation retreat. Out of both convenience and curiosity, I decipher a way to stay at Keller’s house to cut down on the commute. Nevermind that [...]

I go to Joe’s farm to fulfill my barter hours and make a new Chinese medicinal tea prescription. To my surprise there are four cars parked at the bottom of the steep driveway, none of which [...]

At the coffeehouse, which resides on the ground level floor of a three-story 120 year-old log building, it was eighty degrees all afternoon. Inside. That’s with five fans running at a constant, [...]

I am reading fifty pages a day of Alexandra Fuller’s Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier because I must finish it within five days and then write a commentary on it. So it is only [...]

Sometimes we meet people in little bubbles of our lives, and even though we are trapped in time and space and everything we do seems to have no bearing on the past or future, we feel more free [...]

To say it was like cats and dogs would be the understatement of the century. No, not this rain. Not this afternoon. Something more like Niagara Falls evaporating into clouds then traveling 1,200 [...]

I arrive in total darkness, acutely aware that we are only days from a new moon. Everything about the walk from my driveway down the trail to my cabin feels right, except the dryness of the air. [...]

Trapped in Houston, Texas in some holding pen that Continental Airlines calls “Gate B84C” since last night. Lucked out with a place to stay around 3am. Not so lucky in getting back to [...]