Category: Musings

  • Public Lands Action Network

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    Best Easy Ways to Take Action Will Pattiz has developed a new easy hub to allow us to take action to save our public lands. Pattiz is the author of the Substack “More Than Just Parks,” which has been on the forefront of informing the public about all the current nefarious efforts to sell, stop…

  • The Art of the Woods

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    I’m thinking about an art museum that’s not too far away and how rarely I get in my car and drive to admire the paintings and sculpture, but instead step out into the woods so familiar and foreign at the same time, right outside my door, where art and beauty beckon. In winter maybe you’d think…

  • Awards and Badges

    Awards and Badges

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    All the Gifts Gratitude and Privilege Sometimes you receive kudos for something you’ve achieved, for which you’ve worked hard over many years, and en route gratefully accepted help from mentors, friends, family, and colleagues (fellow poets). This is the case with this Best Books Finalist Award. I didn’t get here by myself. Also, it’s important…

  • Poetry & Art Festival at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont

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    September Festival The BGP Art Festival kicked off today – and the garden in Charlottesville is full of excerpts from poems by local poets, gorgeous photographs by Laurie Tennent, and many fall flowers, from the glorious yellows of wingstem, goldenrods, and sneezeweed–with its brown pincushion centers–to the purples of Joe Pye Weed, asters, and ironweed…

  • Camping Tales

    Camping Tales

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    After testing many models of “teardrop” camping trailers for a few years by renting them through Outdoorsy, I finally ordered a small Hiker Trailer in Nov 2022 and we drove to Indianapolis to pick it up in February 2023. In the 2 years since buying it we’ve made 11 trips, including the one to bring…

  • Lost, Spiders, Fungi

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    Minutes From Home We head out into the fine mist of a damp evening, just getting dark, ostensibly to look for mushrooms, not foraging exactly, but just to see what’s come up in the last damp days. First off we see clumps of Ghost Pipe, having pushed up through and some still wearing caps of…