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A Journey to the West: Part Nine
My friend Carrie gave me two tarot readings on my trip and in both cases the Fool was the anchor card. Its appearance, accompanied by a rather cryptic declaration of “interesting” by…
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A Journey to the West: Part Eight
It has been well established that my soul age is 21. This to be clear is not my own judgment but the determination of others. A recent tarot reading also supports the…
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A Journey to the West: Part Seven
In the 1850s, a gold prospector named John Wesley Hilton and others “discovered” Crater Lake while searching for a lost mine. Hilton said: “I knew when I gazed upon Crater Lake that…
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A Journey to the West: Part Six
We tend to describe and debate the spirit of a place by its character, its energy, using ephemeral concepts of culture or people or manmade institutions. DC is defined by being the…
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A Journey to the West: Part Five
For all of our endeavors, both guided and misguided, to experience nature’s bounties for recreation and sustenance or to exploit it for extraction and subjugation, I am certain the earth, were it…
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A Journey to the West: Part Four
The mountain. Surely there are few more awesome elements of our natural world, surpassed perhaps only by the seas and their boundless,unfathomable depths. The mountain is awesome in its original meaning, generating…
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A Journey to the West: Part Three
I consider myself a fairly easy person, opinionated, yes, and perhaps prone to the odd fit of hangriness but generally willing to go with the flow and enjoying myself regardless. When visiting…
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A Journey to the West: Part Two
Don’t go chasing waterfalls, as they say. It as good a piece of advice as any when exploring the natural world. Scaling mountains, sailing the seas, hiking through forests – these are…
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A Journey to the West: Part One
The western United States is vast and it contains multitudes. I am always astounded at the enormity of everything: the mountains, the forests, the distances. Whenever I make my way to the…
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The Sailing Experience
I recently decided to browse through an old blog of mine, last updated in 2011 and no longer visible to the internet at large, to get a sense of myself in days…
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The Soul of a Stadium is in its Name and the English are Preserving it
The sports stadium is a part of the fabric of a city. Any municipality worth its salt has a sporting complex but a stadium or an arena that supports top-flight athletics is…
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Premier League Head-to-Head Records
I recently came across an article that explored the idea of the “nemesis” in football, i.e. that team against which a club performs the worst. It’s a concept that crosses the minds…
