Author

Journalist

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  Saving the Mitchell
  This is the inside story of a decade-long legal battle against a covey of millionaires and billionaires to stop the gutting to stop the gutting of Montana’s Stream Access Law and the removal of almost every stream and river in the state from environmental protection under the Montana Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975.… Read more: Saving the Mitchell

Poet

• Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles
  The room is alivea haven of calm reposeawaiting the artist’s arrivalThe bedsteadstands readythe ultimate refugesheets washed in morning dewscraped carefully from the petals of sunflowersin the early morning hoursjust before dawnwith buttery soft pillowsready to cushion the hot-headed painterwhen he finally comes homeThe green shuttersclose out the night’s screaming-bright starsblocking… Read more: Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles
• The Emerald Tablet
  Flower and TwigFeather and HornDeathless yet DyingBirthless yet BornThis is the originof all perceptionthe nature of all seeingFor the truth of seeingto become manifestwe must separatethe Earth from the Firethe Subtle from the Grossbut gently…gentlyand with all our wits about usif we hope at allto marry them in the endFor… Read more: The Emerald Tablet
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  Like fish and butterflies
  being wild is a waywild being is the same wayonly differentthoughts like wild troutslipping by just below the surfacegoing with the flowdownstream over the fallsand then, like Salmon, back up againhalf-swimminghalf-flyingfreelyunrelentinglyup the fallsback to the sourcea good place to give birtha good place to diewhere the earth’s most serious thoughtmust… Read more: Like fish and butterflies
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  Where Wildflowers Bloom
  by Michael Howell Look, my love I have returned empty-handed I can no longer pluck life’s beauty and bring it home to watch it fade, wilt and die upon the table-top So please, give me your hand and let me lead you to the meadow where beauty thrives Let us… Read more: Where Wildflowers Bloom
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  Streaming
  for what it’s worth the water flows pausing in winter only on the surface always singing underneath while slipping headlong over stones turned soft as green moss by the wet kiss of a fluid element that’s come to wear them down round them off and smooth them freeing them from… Read more: Streaming
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  Composing A Day
  Although our brains are bright how often they shine with the tricky light of a false dawn leading us to believe that the day has already arrived until the night suddenly snatches us back dipping us deeply in her dark inkwell one last time before letting us write the real… Read more: Composing A Day

Philosopher

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  What is the meaning of…
  Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Van Gogh How are we to understand the Wheatfield with Crows1 by Vincent Van Gogh? Or, for that matter, how are we to understand any painting? As Heidegger has pointed out, “On the usual view the work arises out of and by means of the activity of the artist.”2 Rather than shun the… Read more: What is the meaning of…