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“This far and no farther”
By Chris Clarke on 2012 04 02 at 3:11:34 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7df“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “this far and no farther.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead
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Wisdom and Balance
By Chris Clarke on 2011 01 11 at 8:40:48 pm | 7 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3ncLooking back at 2010, I see that so much of what I wrote here was angry. I am still angry about those things, of course. I will still write about them here. But in 2011 I’m going to make sure and put some joy in here as well. Otherwise I’m just
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Metaphor of the day
By Chris Clarke on 2010 01 29 at 11:30:19 am | 7 comments“When late in the afternoon I finally stumbled — sun-dazed, blear-eyed, parched as an old bacon rind — upon that blue stream which flows like a miraculous mirage down the floor of the canyon, I was too exhausted to pause and drink soberly from the
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Kirk Douglas Talks About Lonely Are The Brave
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 07 at 12:25:25 am | 1 commentAt a party in the early 1960s someone handed Kirk Douglas a copy of Ed Abbey’s novel The Brave Cowboy
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