Creek Running North

Hi Chris,

I was down at the annual meeting of the Desert Protective Council last Sunday, in beautiful Anza-Borrego, and it was so fine, and I thought of you.  I am pleased you have made your decision to take a hike away from the blog, because I realized too, sitting around the table with some old desert activist rats that the machine is just a machine, and what’s important is really old sand, and fresh scent of bighorn, and a cactus spine or two.

What I will miss most about your blog is that once in a while you got to me at such a deep level--such as your posts about your long departed lover J., and other more meditative, less-newsworthy posts.  I don’t need for you to post news events or get in hassles with others who post news events, but I will be looking for your spirit on the pages of books, of magazines, in the EI Journal, wherever.  Those writings of yours are best enjoyed, I think, under the stars, with the wind at my back around a campfire somewhere very dry and very beautiful.  Have a really good fishing trip, amigo, and let Zeke throw in a line or two.

Love,
Jim

Well hey, thank you.

High places and dry places
Climb the ridge to soulsoar views
Thightremble down again then
Home to a creek running north
Where muchrubbed ears and
Pawed warmth awaits you
Zeke is softer than a keyboard
Becky too

The terrorists have won.

I kid.  Be happy, enjoy your family, re-charge.  Thank you for some of the bestest writing on the intertubes.  Come back anytime. 

Hey, will you still be stopping by other blogs every now and then to eat our trolls? I can only hope.

Thanks for the words; for the reminder that language can also be used to build magical bridges between people.  You’ve inspired me to hope.

You will most certainly be missed, and it’s quite understandable why you’d want to take a break.
I (and countless others) hope you feel refreshed enough to come out play again soon.

Take all the time you need.

Best Wishes.

Take good care, and write on! And if y’all ever find yourself in South Carolina…

I’ll miss your writing. Thanks for keeping up the blog so long.

Diablo or Mt. Hamilton.  2007.  Let’s do it.

All the best, Chris.  My blog crush will only grow stronger in your absence.

OK, he’s gone now, so we can talk about him behind his back. What’s your favourite post? This is mine;

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/sciurus_niger/

Prenez vos mouchoirs, most definitely.

This is probably my favorite piece of writing on CRN, although I’m somewhat partial to this post as well.

I appreciate how much time and commitment it takes to keep up your blog and am grateful that you could give the gift of that time and energy to readers like me.  I will miss your writing and I wish the best for you.

Bright Blessings

Life is to be lived.  Ruffle Zeke’s fur for me. All the best, til you return, if you return.

Good to hear you’re taking time for yourself, Zeke and Becky.  Hope the fishing is good.

We’re going to be at New Brighton tomorrow and Thursday night (don’t know if we can get a site for the weekend.) You’re all invited down for dinner Thursday if you’re free and inclined.

Indy (10.5 yr old Aussie) would love the company.  Besides, Eric has yet to meet another Green here on the West Coast (they’re a dima dozen back home.) Oh, that reminds me, gotta fill out my absentee ballot (where I get to vote for local Greens who have a chance to actually win.)

Fly away!
yrs always,
B. Dagger Lee

OMG.. I can’t believe it. It’s Halloween night, 2006 and I just found this blog.
It’s the story of my life.  A day late, and a dollar short.
I have sat here for hours reading the blogs.  I have fallen head over heels in love with your animals and your stories.  I crave more.  But I understand why you’ve “gone fishin”. 
Live, love, laugh, be happy my unmet friend.

We do not go fishing.  Do you hear me?

My favorite is:
http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/benita_mora/

Thank you for all you have done and thanks for leavig hope for more to be done and thanks for the beautiful picture. You are missed for all the best reasons. Be Easy, at peace and in harmony Chris.

Just one more voice saying thanks for your wonderful writing.  It will be missed.

Take a good long break. The longer the better. Until you’re ready to post something that isn’t pretentious wndbag bullshit. What a self-important tool you are.

On behalf of all the sycophants, I would like to thank you for your courageous, constructive comment.

Having a bad day at work, are we? Nowhere else to go? Try here

At least the Non-Such ghost from bushco hell could at least have posted his error-ridden lunacy on all hallow’s eve, rather on all saint’s day.  But then, that could have been taken as ironic or some other surreally strange thang, whereas doing the above, much more clearly represents the severe paranoid psychosis that is plainly the issue.  These sprezzatura doppelganger apparitions are becoming so passe’.  Onward to the All Soul’s Procession for the feast of the Dia de los Muertos on the full moon this Sunday.

Non-sycophant, who told you that you had to read Chris’ writing?  If you don’t like it, don’t read it.  And if you don’t like it, waiting until the occasion of his indefinite hiatus to announce your dislike is just plain rude.  I was going to suggest you had been raised by wolves but in my experience canines have much better manners than you.

I will truly miss reading you.