Choke cherry, sweet fern
Black River Falls Wisconsin
Rust
Mustard
Glimmering mayapples
Hooves akimbo, death lies fur-covered beside the road
May 7, 2004
May 3, 2004
Frost warning for Des Moines; so tired i almost eat a postage stamp. R.A.G.E. Residents against property devalueation due to garbage expansion. "Big-assed steaks" special at Vince's. Work. Skunk-scent.
April 21, 2004
Outside is moss, tiny young white pine seedlings, warm air breathing down the mountain slope, blowing blood warm into all life vessels tethered to the riverbank, bobbing in the icey whacks. Fresh British soldiers marching down the log, sweet sweet trailing arbutus down clinging to the earth below their feet. (view here: at the Toad Hall studio )
Mourning dove calls, calls; a woodpecker, a crow.
Late in the evening rain falls.
The workshop smells of old hope, and dreams, sawdust. Hot wind fills house, thawing desires. A single yellow forsythia bloogy fragile: all there is.
Upon second inspection dozens of white arbutus waxiness are found, spilling down the hillside.
Mourning dove calls, calls; a woodpecker, a crow.
Late in the evening rain falls.
The workshop smells of old hope, and dreams, sawdust. Hot wind fills house, thawing desires. A single yellow forsythia bloogy fragile: all there is.
Upon second inspection dozens of white arbutus waxiness are found, spilling down the hillside.
April 19, 2004
When I went to rest my elbows on the rail, there were rubbery numb blobs there instead of a bone, that didn't belong to me; severe thunderstorm warning, daffodil yellows and a pink haze of new buds over trees, piles of spent flares from wreck on the curving mountain and the charred remains of Ohio woman's 4th house. Wind blow.
September 23, 2003
Two hundred twenty one states of mine mind
hu September 23, 2010, 9:33 am: This is my other non-art blog: http://diana.blogspot.com/2010/09/cat-heaven.html It was good to see and speak with Kimm Koocher, such a quiet & reserved lady with a heart too big for this valley.
Sun September 19, 2010, 10:42 pm: ding dong the wicked well is dead and the Last Cowboy Cookie from Laramie has been devoured all wound round with wyoming dusty dirt roads and maps full of subalpine firs and un-named wildflowers. And the snows of hope.
Sat September 18, 2010, 9:50 pm: “Facebook,” he said, “is something you can hold... up to the light and turn it to the right or left, and it becomes a metaphor for some very big things: The nature of communication. What is friendship? What is the nature of loneliness?” - - Scott Rudin, one of the producers of the film_The Social Network_.
Mon September 13, 2010, 3:06 pm: wind blowing warm, honeybees and sunlight on the goldenrod swaying in the meadow enough to make you cry
Fri September 10, 2010, 12:27 am: cold around the ankles, glimpses of swallowtails, bald cypress in a lake, American chestnut, tomatoes in puzzles, TV Time Popcorn silos in Napoleon, ... how could it be full of smoke?... wind in the dried standing corn running with the train.
Sun August 29, 2010, 10:34 am: Rick's Great Big Space Blog is putting out a call for your photos from the August Dedication and any other related photos or stories about the sundial or any sundial or Rick that I may post on the Blog, with credit, caption - much appreciation from me and Victoria, friends & family, in advance!
Fri August 20, 2010, 11:17 am: barn swallows dragonflies redtail hawk, 2 crows in a tree
Thu August 12, 2010, 4:47 am: bushels of dragonflies, hummingbirds, monarchs and grasshoppers, trailers full of corn, cars full of coal; if you can't see the corn in the dark, is it still there?
Tue August 3, 2010, 12:27 am: too hot, too cold, hearing about dark energy, walking through feathers, among orange tiled roofs, guided by little white men, blinking
Sun July 25, 2010, 9:08 pm: writing anaerobic archeobacteria over and over and making sure it's really black.
Sat July 17, 2010, 10:44 pm: Clouds, crickets, katydids, dry lightening and lightening bugs, looking on a map at all the places one will never go.
Thu July 8, 2010, 10:43 pm: Woods full of robins, beans from the flower garden, purple vervain gladdens, dry mud cracking; In the dim heat cicadas buzz and mushrooms glow orange. Lunar maps and little cat crawls the walls, hot sweet thrush song, ginger soda pouring from a glass bottle, sweet corn from ohio.
Fri June 25, 2010, 3:34 am: saw an amazing meteorite falling in a north to south arc over I-80 Thursday nite about 10:03 pm; it appeared to fall for almost 2 seconds, with a fat trail and a huge slow motion burst of hot blue white ball of light at the end.
Tue June 22, 2010, 11:25 pm: Identifying grey treefrogs and writing about art and Mason jars, pumpkin lilies and sundial calibration: sadness writ in stone and steel and pointing at the sky...3 little boys bouncing their balls thinking it will be different. It won't. Limbs so dark, moon so bright.
Wed June 16, 2010, 11:45 am: Lightening bug in my mailbox...looking up gas furnaces - many - and crampons - only one - ....sardines for lunch.
Mon June 14, 2010, 4:05 pm: female cardinal feasting on red-ripe honeysuckle berries outside the studio window with grey messages from grey eyes under grey skies
Thu June 10, 2010, 1:42 am: mountain laurel blossoms down the Chuck, along the Mid, up the Black; among the white pine, hemlock, fir: crows' wings, foxgloves and forget-me-nots; curling cornfields roll and hug iced with lines of trees, pennsylvania rainforest draped with fog wrapped in mist, roadsides frothy with ox-eye daisies; a mattock, a tea-ball; where are you going so fast?
Thu May 27, 2010, 11:37 am: too many cleome sprouts, not enough blue-eyed grass
Thu May 20, 2010, 12:03 am: Down in the jewelweed swamp fireflies float, out of the trees, in the gloaming waver barn owl voices, bullfrogs low and rumming the pond, peepers ringing far and away faint on the breeze, air full of bat wings above the stones and down the path - bluebirds gone the graveyard now - moon swinging thru Venus and poppies waving in the night wind. Summer squash seeds.
Tue May 18, 2010, 9:40 pm: So many highways lined with irises and fear and lies; rivers running over banks tearing down the house; ragwort in the ditches, trillium on the hill.
Mon May 10, 2010, 10:46 pm: clothespins, coffee grinding, mud, planes falling out of the sky over and over in a dream, up dances a golden retriever cheerily homeless; he has a red collar.
Sun April 25, 2010, 7:08 pm: tricycle in the rain - - - thunder and lightening - - - kneeling in the mud - - - the greenest green you've ever seen - - -
Sat April 24, 2010, 12:43 am: C.S. on NX: "...It's like brother Nietzsche says, being human is a complicated gig, so give that old dark night of the soul a hug. And howl the eternal yes."
Thu April 22, 2010, 11:54 pm: Introducing the Hot New Social Network, PhoneBook « Borowitz Report: http://bit.ly/cPAJnX "Meet: It’s like Skype, only without the headset"
Wed April 21, 2010, 4:31 pm: F8? The Day Facebook ate the World?
Wed April 21, 2010, 2:23 pm: Slowpoke Comics http://bit.ly/cMaQmP Freedom To Be Screwed, Give me Denial of Pre-existing Conditions or Give me Death via Jen Sorensen
Tue April 20, 2010, 12:17 pm: Sloup: Meet Folks.Have Fun.Eat Food.Fund Art. http://sloup2122.blogspot.com/?spref=tw Monthly soup dinner gives artists' grants. Do it here?
Fri April 16, 2010, 11:29 am: COSTOFWAR.COM - The Cost of War http://shar.es/mtD77 excellent counters you can pinpoint with, also easy to embed
Wed April 14, 2010, 12:17 am: Can you see jazz? http://bit.ly/9TEW0L See what can be - do you have it or do U want it? write read verse paper brush bird trane, yes or no?
Mon April 12, 2010, 10:10 pm: " 'Twas ever thus" Twelfth Night
Mon April 12, 2010, 1:18 am: Don't be an artist - Kiko Denzer at Chelsea Green http://shar.es/mscTO
Sat April 10, 2010, 4:38 pm: Sawmill on #Yelp: A great refuge for us while building our cabin - this establishment is So welcome in this area of ... http://bit.ly/bevJlH
Fri April 9, 2010, 5:35 pm: It's snowing on my spring beauties, violets & buttercup leaves, and the robin doth protest
Mon April 5, 2010, 6:04 pm: dried fox nuts: smell fruity like soybeans, look like large white split peas w/ red skin. Nut or bean? - how do you cook them?
Sat April 3, 2010, 2:14 pm: "With this economy, grain & bean worship is almost evangelical.""...is there something about the American psyche that says that tomato plants don't belong in the front yard...?" via splendidtable.org & Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Fri April 2, 2010, 12:54 pm: wishes she could "build a nest of bark, moss, and twigs held together with spider webs"
Tue March 30, 2010, 8:32 pm: spring trots in blooming under the feet of small horses
Sun March 28, 2010, 4:32 pm: cardinals flinging songs over wet shingles, raindrops and bassoon echo round stone pillar and stained glass, astronomers fill the pews and feast on chocolate pastry... a cold Sunday among boarded-up windows and doors and we are weary of snowcake
Fri March 26, 2010, 4:48 am: wet bluebirds, brownies warm from the oven,..............and then, snow...
Sun March 21, 2010, 1:35 pm: South Dakota Wall agate bound with silver girlscout cookies in green and blue boxes green and white light the equinox vernal warm and furry feed the ongoing flame food on plates. [see blog for punctuation... wrarck]
Thu March 18, 2010, 8:39 am: Heard a peeper, children's voices on the run past the gas wells through the trees, coltsfoots emerge and saw Venus under an earthlit crescent; darkness is my cloak.
Wed March 17, 2010, 12:38 am: Orion wheeling overland, mud here, there, everywhere, wind rushing...what scrambled her brain, vacant, abandoned, shutters swinging in a dark breeze?
Wed March 17, 2010, 12:38 am: Snowbanks melting revealing forgotten microwave ovens and underwear, ripped and black. Red-winged blackbirds in a flock of starlings growing on the tops of trees noise up the sky. Iris shoots and runs, wet, glittering, in the gloaming out in the wind roaming. And the house shrudders. Silent on the roof, watching.
Thu March 4, 2010, 5:33 pm: "The plate may be stored in the refrigerator and reused for up to 2 weeks (or until it falls apart or you notice green fuzz, whichever comes first).": a peek inside that irreverent space of the artist's world, http://bit.ly/cV3ODC . Jacket shadow flutters across the snow field in late late winter sun - alive.
Thu March 4, 2010, 5:28 pm: Figured out via Ryan Locke how to block that Friend Q&A thing: just click on the little square smiley face button under the big blue box icon to go to that app page, then click "Block this app" under the picture. Now you won't see it on anyone's Wall anywhere. Till the next cruddy App pops up like Whack-an-App...
Tue March 2, 2010, 10:20 pm: I heard doves calling in the far far distance this morning thin and pale like thread in a glacier looming still over the village. Plus easy danger zum-zum whee: http://bit.ly/b9Frq6
Sun February 28, 2010, 5:09 pm: I smelled Spring today, I did , I did! Spring! Spring!,,, ! ... ! ,,, ! ... Did anyone else?!?!
Sun February 28, 2010, 1:17 am: Potatoes in the fire of the wood stove, air filled with snow, night filled with light, boots full of toes, door full of out, head fulla shouldas, I'm playing Ludwigville - who wants to join me?
Thu February 25, 2010, 1:08 pm: Galleriffic versus Galleria? fresh album here Jalbum http://p15828.jalbum.net/Diana-Ludwig-Artworks/
Mon February 22, 2010, 5:27 pm: "...estimating the cost of one Tomahawk cruise missile tipped with a Raytheon guidance system at $840,000, Greg Mortenson writes, 'For that much money you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, nonextremist education over the course of a generation.' Then he poses a provocative question: 'Which do you think will make us more secure?'" http://bit.ly/aKbq9P
Thu February 18, 2010, 8:23 pm: Finally they meet! Obama & Dali Lama, photo by Pete Souza http://flic.kr/p/7DXSBM
Wed February 17, 2010, 8:58 pm: Twin Spirits: live theatre w/ Sting, his wife Trudie Styler, Clara Schumann & Derek Jacobi: Sweet! http://bit.ly/bQ6nmv
Sun February 14, 2010, 12:39 am: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer http://bit.ly/9czLJO
Fri February 12, 2010, 10:18 pm: Neighboring Ice - one of new photos from the Wintering Place in the Artist Belt of the US http://flic.kr/p/7CEadE
Wed February 10, 2010, 12:52 am: Why aren't we doing more to protect no-carbon commuters?: http://tinyurl.change.org/sOYJE Safe to use your own 2 feet, own 2 wheels?
Sun February 7, 2010, 1:52 am: Cindy Ross writes - Forest drilling poses threat: http://bit.ly/bgtAaS Senate bill & 1215 HR bill 2766
Sat February 6, 2010, 10:05 pm: blizzard of snow pics makes the weather in my own neck of the fb neighborhood white, I like everyone's - storm on, let's see more
Fri February 5, 2010, 6:38 pm: Soup & sandwich on the woodstove. Senate becoming dysfunctional - Senate rules need to be reviewed & re-endowed with common sense. Snow. Cat. Art.
Thu February 4, 2010, 2:01 am: "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." Will Durant
Tue February 2, 2010, 8:49 pm: blade slicing through woody flesh, promise of warmth; David Byrne http://bit.ly/cC2zM9 on Marketplace today promoting Bikeshare http://bit.ly/cQFn9f
Mon February 1, 2010, 7:28 pm: Car sharing Up -1 shared vehicle replace 15 personally owned cars & carsharing members drove 31% less http://su.pr/1JDKU4 zipcar.com
Sat January 30, 2010, 3:04 pm: "...the hammer doesn't always work, you need to drink tea as well."
Wed January 27, 2010, 5:28 pm: "...Why else do we grant them honored space in our living rooms, our bedrooms? Why else are we so careful not to bend their spines? ...The fact is that books are special. ...I can't see people expressing the same reverence for the flashing bits of data that flicker across their e-books..." :Eric Weiner http://bit.ly/coYrj0
Wed January 27, 2010, 11:26 am: Tried for crows, could only get chickadees... yet another mispoke from infamous WKBN host DR :"I don't wanna just start blowing people away willy-nilly - we should be organized..." Canfield on CNN today for coming in second place in unemployment figures statewide
Mon January 25, 2010, 4:46 pm: " 'Well, we came here to celebrate a hero,' said Margie. 'an American by the name of Gussie Norlander. He was from our town. He died in the liberation of Rome.' Mr. Columbo shrugged. 'All dead men are heroes, & the rest of us are cowards.' " from Pilgrims, by Garrison Keillor, 2009.
Sun January 24, 2010, 10:35 pm: ExxonMoblie: excited a little overwhelmed celebrate by buying itself a little treat namely US House of Representatives http://bit.ly/66D0Xy
Sat January 23, 2010, 1:07 pm: running in pursuit of a very large possum trotting through the back of the back
Thu January 21, 2010, 12:11 pm: Living without heat-The Cool Crowd - http://nyti.ms/6gm0tW
Thu January 21, 2010, 11:30 am: Currently reading http://tylersclark.com/blog/2010/01/conservative-court-approves-u-s-a-inc/
Mon January 18, 2010, 11:18 am: http://bit.ly/4YTWSq Never mind what people believe—how can we change what they do? A chat with Robert Cialdini
Sun January 17, 2010, 2:55 am: "Mr. Odom had a church in North Dakota and he thought he wasn't doing any good, he was only a minister. So he asked himself, What job can I find where I *know* I'll do some good? and he came up with janitor." Garrison Keillor in WLT: A Radio Romance, c. 1991
Sun January 10, 2010, 7:40 pm: sad beauty: 'Flirted With You All My Life' by Vic Chesnutt (MP3 Download) http://bit.ly/4whoeg
Thu January 7, 2010, 1:23 pm: sweeping snow, two crows on a wire, watching ice grow sparkling in security, admiring the furnace man's young pet rats... nuthatches in the woods
Tue January 5, 2010, 4:18 am: observed this: all night long sitting on a cardboard box watching for bunny rabbits in the snow.
Mon January 4, 2010, 12:26 am: sparkling crystal snowflakes fluttering though frigidity landing on rabbit fur and cat fur alike...turn out the christmas lights...seal the envelopes...fold the blankets...and lie down in the empty world.
Thu December 31, 2009, 2:03 am: saw rabbit in the night snow. so did Becca Fowler http://www.sharesomecandy.com/2009/12/becca-fowler.html
Tue December 29, 2009, 9:30 pm: Back of Winter - http://panoramio.com/photo/30416875
Tue December 29, 2009, 12:38 am: for days when you can't lift your head up off the table: http://rotateme.org/?u=facebook.com&r=r Do more at: http://rotateme.org/
Mon December 28, 2009, 1:39 am: blowing and snowing, looking up eskabe gas heater pilot cleaning, crappy GM Korean-made headlights and high-tech insect binoculars before loading art, before catching the UFO roundup - there goes the plow
Fri December 25, 2009, 5:27 pm: Watching "GOOD: Bright Orange" on Babelgum - http://www.babelgum.com/3021419
Fri December 25, 2009, 9:38 am: it's pouring and blowing -- to uncle and aunt's we go
Wed December 23, 2009, 6:42 am: red shirts stiff as boards -- "what would you do next: shoot the sky?" (D.C.) -- cold snow lying warm under crow wings early in the morning
Mon December 21, 2009, 12:16 pm: picking up unloved artworks
Sat December 19, 2009, 10:58 pm: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fri December 11, 2009, 11:46 pm: Tarpon: scroll way down to the long (only) review http://bit.ly/5IBMex
Thu December 10, 2009, 12:20 am: addicted to our woodstove... Fire: Goood, heat: good and the axe is not your friend
Tue December 8, 2009, 6:41 pm: "So this is Christmas, And what have you done, Another year over, And a new one just begun,... War is over, If you want it, War is over, Now..." J L
Fri December 4, 2009, 9:49 pm: Check out 'No War No More: Poems, Essays, Photos and Artwork for Peace' by (Paperback - Sep 3, 2007) http://bit.ly/8MNdK6
Thu December 3, 2009, 9:06 pm: http://www.desmogblog.com/elizabeth-may-informed-look-east-anglia-emails Elizabeth May: An Informed Look at the East Anglia Emails
Wed December 2, 2009, 9:44 pm: windy, rainey, non-news about a non-war, cooking meals on a woodstove, splitting chunks of maple and oak with an axe
Tue December 1, 2009, 6:14 pm: Is anybody else "Waving" ?
Thu November 26, 2009, 6:57 pm: woodstove, kitty, Doug, Diana: all fuzzy warm happy
Wed November 25, 2009, 12:21 pm: TW1TT3Rart #TWITTERart █┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█ █┴┤└┴█┴┤└┴█┴┘└┴█┴┘└┴█┴┼┼┴█┴┘├┼█ █─┴█──█┴─█┴─█──█──█─┴█┴┴█┴─█┴┴█
Sat November 21, 2009, 11:39 pm: Just found Scrapbooked Encounters of a Paranormal Kind on YUDU - http://www.yudu.com/i/49l
Thu November 19, 2009, 2:12 pm: how to get the crash and wave and bare and rock hard and raw spruce and loose moose of Newfoundland and Labrador scenery captured on flat ol' paper and board, and pull the story out and drive it in - lotsa prussian blue and scraping grey-greens. And some shrieks.
Wed November 18, 2009, 11:23 am: Currently reading http://tylersclark.com/blog/2009/09/power-of-the-arts-series/
Wed November 18, 2009, 1:38 am: Just changed my twitter background, check it out! Found it at http://www.TwitterBackgrounds.com
Sat November 14, 2009, 10:17 pm: romping with chipmunk in the bathroom - very acrobatic, we did a hysterical dance for a while before making a jammie-clad trek through the night leaves to the edge of the woods. He sat nestled in his towel for long minutes, I touched him & he bounded into the brush.
Fri November 13, 2009, 3:25 pm: finishing up bird art piece
Thu November 12, 2009, 4:18 pm: ingesting inferno chili with sweet fresh habaneros & jalepenos & crushed fresh dried sage leaves
Wed November 11, 2009, 11:07 pm: Anyone hear of a band called Distortion and/or a Ryan Hemenway?
Tue November 10, 2009, 12:00 am: http://twitdraw.com/dsg636 landscape sketch #twitdraw
Fri October 30, 2009, 3:27 pm: my Gami Starz origami fun customizable Greeting at Zazzle.com: http://bit.ly/SWqvX via @addthis
Tue October 27, 2009, 11:37 pm: fun -unique - Be a watcher! film here: The Mona Lisa Mosaic Masterpiece http://bit.ly/16TfzH
Sun October 25, 2009, 9:06 pm: boiling water on the woodstove for tea, watching Jupiter next to bright first quarter moon
Sat October 24, 2009, 9:12 pm: so how long have the internal posts on Facebook been searchable / retrievable by Google, etc. ?
Sat October 24, 2009, 7:45 pm: Currently reading http://bit.ly/d22dP
Wed October 21, 2009, 4:12 am: saw a couple Orionids between the pines, couldn't stay long, avoided porkies doddering alongside the road & many deer & a fuzzy grey 'coon all scampering around in the road
Mon October 19, 2009, 3:49 pm: Mona Lisa Mosaic Mural Unveiled http://networkedblogs.com/p15046282
Mon October 19, 2009, 3:37 pm: Finland becoming the first in Europe, nay the world, to legislate for broadband to be a universal service. This anticipates similar moves in other countries: Austria, England... Life, Liberty & Broadband for all...
Sat October 17, 2009, 8:44 pm: slate-coloured juncos, tufted mouse tits, & blue jays dancing in my front yard
Thu October 15, 2009, 9:00 pm: heating water for coffee on the woodstove
Thu October 15, 2009, 1:22 am: RT @MMFlint: Michael Moore on Today Show this morn THURS around 7:05am celebrate $140 billion bonuses being handed to Wall St w/ our money.
Wed October 14, 2009, 5:07 pm: smell of gas, lick of salt, blue jays fly about the churchyard
Tue October 13, 2009, 3:55 pm: infinite journal! no film no music Just Write & create=yay! http://tinyurl.com/y8bmlyx
Mon October 12, 2009, 1:05 am: What should Obama do about the Honduran coup? - http://bit.ly/2li1Bv
Sun October 11, 2009, 10:40 pm: 2 am frost we've covered the calendula and stuffed the stove with small oak limbs
Wed October 7, 2009, 1:27 pm: 130 miles from intrusive...generally discreet, weakly to moderately deformed bodies... with subordinate amphibolite
Tue October 6, 2009, 4:44 pm: watching kayaks go by under slate grey skies at Brewed Awakenings, Apppleton, across from a reader of Isaacson's bio of Einstein
Wed September 30, 2009, 5:52 pm: http://twitter.com/dailycoyote sez:dailycoyote It's snowing!!!!!! It's snowing it's snowing it's snowing!!!1!
Wed September 30, 2009, 5:49 pm: http://bit.ly/HJDPl via someecards.com Socialized medicine scares me a lot less than the people scared of socialized medicine
Mon September 28, 2009, 5:10 am: lightening flashing, rain beating
Mon September 28, 2009, 4:54 am: http://bit.ly/T8dsp
Sat September 26, 2009, 10:14 pm: twit Canvolution A canvolution has begun, Canning Across America, "a series, every summer, of short but violently active cannings" MKF
Fri September 25, 2009, 8:25 pm: at play in the asters of the field with the autumn wind and deer under the oaks at the church and six golf balls
Fri September 25, 2009, 5:45 am: thinking about chipmunks & listening to Bill Clinton urge us to do some'ing 'bout healthcare & energy
Thu September 24, 2009, 6:30 pm: thinks it's cool that Angela Merkel the East German physicist who also happens to be the Chancellor is hanging out not too far away in Pittsburgh
Wed September 23, 2009, 10:06 pm: OK enough of that!whack whack whack back to work!
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:58 pm: http://twitdraw.com/bcsfqo Add to this Graffiti and pass it @ 3 people! @Sunsalix @tsaska @vickidasilva
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:35 pm: is, yahy, just a twit drawing....
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:32 pm: http://twitdraw.com/rz1e4d @Adorimama #twitdraw
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:29 pm: http://twitdraw.com/torbq7 @RinDiZa #twitdraw
Wed September 23, 2009, 5:28 pm: is glad, or at least hopes, she will probably never B guilty of driving while intexticated
Tue September 22, 2009, 12:52 pm: Ohio-ans, put your 2 cents in here at this Should We Have Passenger Train Service in Ohio survey from ".gov" See Link on my Wall-- the 2000 comments were pretty encouraging --add yours at the end.
Mon September 21, 2009, 5:41 pm: chocolates, oils & spices on Bleecker Street near Annie's Breads
Sat September 19, 2009, 12:52 pm: Lebensqualität - earth spinning at 1000 miles per hour* - go to studio, make art (*a little more if at the equator)
Fri September 18, 2009, 9:09 pm: "...our impact on the world is slight, so take life as a comedy and play it for laughs. You die, there is a sort of decent grief and a few people really do suffer from your absence, but the impact on the greater world is negligible. You do not leave a big hole. They dig a hole and put you in it." Garrison Keillor, in Homegrown Democrat (food for thought)
Wed September 16, 2009, 7:58 pm: "pet's lives are shorter than yours because if you died first, who would take care of your little pet?..." Michael Savage via radio, trying to explain the problem of our attachment to these small creatures
Wed September 16, 2009, 11:56 am: off to Victoria's farmstead
Wed September 16, 2009, 1:08 am: "Last week President Obama spoke slowly & forcefully about the basic concepts of right & wrong to a varied audience most of whom had no idea what he was talking about or why they were being forced to listen to him...& he also spoke to schoolchildren.": heard from Peter Sagal on radio last week.
Sat September 12, 2009, 3:00 pm: unhappy abundance of fresh & forlorn groceries in the fridge
Thu September 10, 2009, 7:59 pm: Caught cricket. Lost cricket. Re-caught cricket. Evicted cricket. She's asleep.
Tue September 8, 2009, 3:53 pm: RT @politico Newt Gingrich: 'Every child' should read speech - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com http://bit.ly/6dHqc
Tue September 8, 2009, 2:32 pm: Come to " Arts District Meet and Greet Meeting" Thursday, September 10 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Arts District Meet... http://bit.ly/Nx8dP
Sun September 6, 2009, 12:26 pm: See Live Glassblowing at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in NeenahOctober 15 - 18, 2009 -- http://bit.ly/17ILTk
Sat September 5, 2009, 1:43 am: my Wichita lineman is coming home..."there comes a time" to wax the sweet sugar floor and open the burlap door
Thu September 3, 2009, 6:10 pm: No one should die because they cannot afford health care and no one should go broke if they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
Wed September 2, 2009, 4:52 pm: brilliant blue sky, quiet except for crickets, my head hurts
Tue September 1, 2009, 1:40 pm: sounds of distant explosions, ah we're in the Valley...The Bees, Ted and Gasoline along with Billy the Dog and sweet rotting odor of apples on the road
Tue September 1, 2009, 5:08 am: http://bit.ly/104WOc via @addthis Milanville painting another world long ago, above the Delaware, not far from Innisfree & Skinner's Falls
Mon August 31, 2009, 10:52 am: cold sun on the edge of autumn, Venus bright in the early a.m., whole grain hot cereal with cinnamon & maple syrup
Sun August 30, 2009, 10:35 am: COOK FOREST SAWMILL ART CENTER 2009 CLASS LIST, between SEPT. 12 & 13 and Nov 15. WOODCARVING – WOODSPIRITS OIL... http://bit.ly/RDhKS
Fri August 28, 2009, 12:02 am: clouds low, trains loud, blankets and flannel shirts, lemon rind in the oven...wash the scissors, snip of grass shears metal rings over a coal town yard thirty-seven years ago
Thu August 27, 2009, 9:57 pm: http://bit.ly/10RSSI via @addthis
Wed August 26, 2009, 2:59 pm: rooting around for coloured envelopes
Tue August 25, 2009, 11:55 pm: and the spider has spots on its legs like the one Big Daddy Rock sent dancing around the tattoo parlour in pennsylvania
Tue August 25, 2009, 11:49 pm: watching in awe spider weave its gossamer web on our clothesline, tacking silvery filament to & fro guiding it just so with a back leg, running & spewing so fine a thread: I can't spin silk out my butt can u?
Tue August 25, 2009, 1:59 am: prowling around making sure raccoons aren't in the attic
Sun August 23, 2009, 1:32 am: fungi funk http://flic.kr/p/34mJ8k
Sun August 16, 2009, 11:22 pm: katy-did, katy-did, in dark oaks, scampering jingle betrays night moves of Frances the cat
Sun August 16, 2009, 5:41 pm: internet having its 40th birthday?
Sun August 16, 2009, 5:22 pm: listening to a story on the radio:"Is the Internet rotting our brain, is Google making us stoopid....?"
Sat August 15, 2009, 10:51 pm: hey we went haying; helped a friend bale hay for their horses
Fri August 14, 2009, 3:20 am: coons squalling & fussing out in neighbor's giant oak tree. train whistle floats up the night.wondering when my bleeding heart will sprout
Thu August 13, 2009, 2:44 am: torn socks, broom knocked over by the cat...Perseids falling out of the sky
Tue August 11, 2009, 10:15 pm: katydids, crickets, drunk-driven truck with a wooden tailgate, catfeet running on a roof...lightening bugs... Perseids are falling tonite
Tue August 11, 2009, 4:26 pm: bubbles in the puddles, rumbles of thunders, morning glory creeps past the kitchen window
Tue August 11, 2009, 7:44 am: dew on the blooms... eggs in the cast-iron pan
Sun August 9, 2009, 11:30 pm: cat casts her little moon shadow running under the broken wheelbarrow
Sun August 9, 2009, 1:24 pm: tutti fruity fondants discount for spaying Squeaky hot-water bath canner 11 1/2 quarts reasonable physics textbooks stinger missle brochure rainlight fairfotos cupboard doors tansy
Fri August 7, 2009, 12:32 pm: threatening rain clouds
Thu August 6, 2009, 11:27 am: 48 degrees at Warren airport this early A.M.; Doug just saw pair of fighter jets fly over
Wed August 5, 2009, 7:15 pm: cherry herb tea & gnashing teeth over changes Vista hath wrought, in this get-acquainted period with this notebook ARGH
Wed August 5, 2009, 12:01 pm: helping tote plywood to and fro, listening to the saw
Tue August 4, 2009, 5:15 pm: where can I see some white hot iron being poured?
Mon August 3, 2009, 10:19 pm: helping with hanging of Trumbull Area Artists' show
Sun August 2, 2009, 8:30 pm: hearing a young katydid in the dark
Sat August 1, 2009, 6:48 am: waiting on the Cat & listening to Living On Earth
Wed July 29, 2009, 3:12 pm: cleaning soggy detritus out of the rain gutters
Wed July 29, 2009, 9:29 am: listening to the blue jays in the rain
Wed July 15, 2009, 1:33 pm: helping load metal painted yellow
Thu July 9, 2009, 8:46 pm: Lawns On Drugs -- Just Say "NO"!
Wed July 8, 2009, 7:06 pm: "I don't want to make a lot of money, I just want to be wonderful." Marilyn Monroe said this. Don't we all...
Wed July 1, 2009, 2:15 pm: storm watching
Wed June 17, 2009, 11:51 am: weeding; spotting great blue herons
Sat June 13, 2009, 5:49 pm: a hundred and eighty tons of poetry being hauled upriver on a barge in Cincinnati right this very moment by Garrison Keillor and Billy Collins...and a joke about Teaneck, New Jersey
Sat June 13, 2009, 10:58 am: watching flowers grow and writing
Mon June 1, 2009, 10:47 pm: lightening flashing, thunder rain-rattling in the brick canyons
Mon June 1, 2009, 9:01 pm: loves my Wall-'s' today -- what's gottinto youall? mustbe something in the air..?
Fri May 29, 2009, 6:36 pm: hoping my seeds sprout
Thu May 28, 2009, 12:49 am: colours of sleep...dancing dollar bills...cat fur...
Tue May 26, 2009, 9:31 am: learning a smidgeon of FinalCutPro and trying to prop open eyes
Mon May 18, 2009, 8:30 pm: figuring out where to plant things, and keeping the fire going...
Fri May 8, 2009, 2:52 pm: enjoying Spring
Sat May 2, 2009, 7:56 pm: trying to figure out how to replace the tensioner on a wringer washer
Sat May 2, 2009, 6:15 pm: listening to Prairie Home Companion.. sugah, sugah
Tue April 28, 2009, 6:02 pm: relishing 6 homemade soups at the Masonic temple on a rainy evening
Sat April 25, 2009, 7:27 pm: giving misdirections to the Canfield "observatory?"
Sat April 25, 2009, 7:27 pm: giving misdirections to the Canfield "observatory?"
Sun April 19, 2009, 7:48 pm: looking for lunar and star atlases...
Sat April 18, 2009, 3:07 pm: talkin' 'bout m-m-m-my Pleiades mural painting....
Fri April 17, 2009, 2:19 pm: practice run on planetarium show for conference tomorrow
Sun April 5, 2009, 4:52 pm: heard an inspiring & moving presentation by Chloe Schwenke at Unitarian church
Sat April 4, 2009, 9:44 pm: hundred hours of astronomy going great at Ward Beecher
Fri April 3, 2009, 10:12 pm: looking up David Lynch and what sort of bizarre video en-up-coding he did to his latest film Inland Empire...some kinda unplayable mixture
Fri April 3, 2009, 12:32 pm: thinking about iron furnaces and picking up star maps
Mon March 30, 2009, 9:33 pm: splitting firewood from an oak that the wind blew down last fall that Mister Pirko helped us cut up and put away so we'd be warm this winter and cold spring...
Sat March 21, 2009, 6:57 pm: is planting ourselves in the planetarium for Durrell lecture
Sat March 21, 2009, 2:07 pm: is painting a painting (virtually) and seeking Talking Heads lyrics and being confused as usual...
Sun March 15, 2009, 3:09 pm: is trying NOT to be scattered!!
Sat March 14, 2009, 4:33 pm: window shopping for laptop that can run Photoshop (esp its fliters & large file save) at lightening speed -- any hints?
Thu March 12, 2009, 8:40 pm: had a great cold afternoon watering horses at the Pirko estate
Sun March 8, 2009, 12:55 pm: is growling at tracfone
Tue February 24, 2009, 6:36 pm: -- okay,okay, --is giving up on giving up!
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:48 pm: is giving up
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:48 pm: giving up
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:38 pm: is looking for mislaid flower portraits
Sat February 21, 2009, 9:51 pm: is wondering how deep the snow is
Sat February 21, 2009, 4:03 pm: is .... if she knew she'd tell you
Mon February 16, 2009, 8:59 pm: dithering wildly.
Mon February 16, 2009, 8:53 pm: is frittering away
Sun September 19, 2010, 10:42 pm: ding dong the wicked well is dead and the Last Cowboy Cookie from Laramie has been devoured all wound round with wyoming dusty dirt roads and maps full of subalpine firs and un-named wildflowers. And the snows of hope.
Sat September 18, 2010, 9:50 pm: “Facebook,” he said, “is something you can hold... up to the light and turn it to the right or left, and it becomes a metaphor for some very big things: The nature of communication. What is friendship? What is the nature of loneliness?” - - Scott Rudin, one of the producers of the film_The Social Network_.
Mon September 13, 2010, 3:06 pm: wind blowing warm, honeybees and sunlight on the goldenrod swaying in the meadow enough to make you cry
Fri September 10, 2010, 12:27 am: cold around the ankles, glimpses of swallowtails, bald cypress in a lake, American chestnut, tomatoes in puzzles, TV Time Popcorn silos in Napoleon, ... how could it be full of smoke?... wind in the dried standing corn running with the train.
Sun August 29, 2010, 10:34 am: Rick's Great Big Space Blog is putting out a call for your photos from the August Dedication and any other related photos or stories about the sundial or any sundial or Rick that I may post on the Blog, with credit, caption - much appreciation from me and Victoria, friends & family, in advance!
Fri August 20, 2010, 11:17 am: barn swallows dragonflies redtail hawk, 2 crows in a tree
Thu August 12, 2010, 4:47 am: bushels of dragonflies, hummingbirds, monarchs and grasshoppers, trailers full of corn, cars full of coal; if you can't see the corn in the dark, is it still there?
Tue August 3, 2010, 12:27 am: too hot, too cold, hearing about dark energy, walking through feathers, among orange tiled roofs, guided by little white men, blinking
Sun July 25, 2010, 9:08 pm: writing anaerobic archeobacteria over and over and making sure it's really black.
Sat July 17, 2010, 10:44 pm: Clouds, crickets, katydids, dry lightening and lightening bugs, looking on a map at all the places one will never go.
Thu July 8, 2010, 10:43 pm: Woods full of robins, beans from the flower garden, purple vervain gladdens, dry mud cracking; In the dim heat cicadas buzz and mushrooms glow orange. Lunar maps and little cat crawls the walls, hot sweet thrush song, ginger soda pouring from a glass bottle, sweet corn from ohio.
Fri June 25, 2010, 3:34 am: saw an amazing meteorite falling in a north to south arc over I-80 Thursday nite about 10:03 pm; it appeared to fall for almost 2 seconds, with a fat trail and a huge slow motion burst of hot blue white ball of light at the end.
Tue June 22, 2010, 11:25 pm: Identifying grey treefrogs and writing about art and Mason jars, pumpkin lilies and sundial calibration: sadness writ in stone and steel and pointing at the sky...3 little boys bouncing their balls thinking it will be different. It won't. Limbs so dark, moon so bright.
Wed June 16, 2010, 11:45 am: Lightening bug in my mailbox...looking up gas furnaces - many - and crampons - only one - ....sardines for lunch.
Mon June 14, 2010, 4:05 pm: female cardinal feasting on red-ripe honeysuckle berries outside the studio window with grey messages from grey eyes under grey skies
Thu June 10, 2010, 1:42 am: mountain laurel blossoms down the Chuck, along the Mid, up the Black; among the white pine, hemlock, fir: crows' wings, foxgloves and forget-me-nots; curling cornfields roll and hug iced with lines of trees, pennsylvania rainforest draped with fog wrapped in mist, roadsides frothy with ox-eye daisies; a mattock, a tea-ball; where are you going so fast?
Thu May 27, 2010, 11:37 am: too many cleome sprouts, not enough blue-eyed grass
Thu May 20, 2010, 12:03 am: Down in the jewelweed swamp fireflies float, out of the trees, in the gloaming waver barn owl voices, bullfrogs low and rumming the pond, peepers ringing far and away faint on the breeze, air full of bat wings above the stones and down the path - bluebirds gone the graveyard now - moon swinging thru Venus and poppies waving in the night wind. Summer squash seeds.
Tue May 18, 2010, 9:40 pm: So many highways lined with irises and fear and lies; rivers running over banks tearing down the house; ragwort in the ditches, trillium on the hill.
Mon May 10, 2010, 10:46 pm: clothespins, coffee grinding, mud, planes falling out of the sky over and over in a dream, up dances a golden retriever cheerily homeless; he has a red collar.
Sun April 25, 2010, 7:08 pm: tricycle in the rain - - - thunder and lightening - - - kneeling in the mud - - - the greenest green you've ever seen - - -
Sat April 24, 2010, 12:43 am: C.S. on NX: "...It's like brother Nietzsche says, being human is a complicated gig, so give that old dark night of the soul a hug. And howl the eternal yes."
Thu April 22, 2010, 11:54 pm: Introducing the Hot New Social Network, PhoneBook « Borowitz Report: http://bit.ly/cPAJnX "Meet: It’s like Skype, only without the headset"
Wed April 21, 2010, 4:31 pm: F8? The Day Facebook ate the World?
Wed April 21, 2010, 2:23 pm: Slowpoke Comics http://bit.ly/cMaQmP Freedom To Be Screwed, Give me Denial of Pre-existing Conditions or Give me Death via Jen Sorensen
Tue April 20, 2010, 12:17 pm: Sloup: Meet Folks.Have Fun.Eat Food.Fund Art. http://sloup2122.blogspot.com/?spref=tw Monthly soup dinner gives artists' grants. Do it here?
Fri April 16, 2010, 11:29 am: COSTOFWAR.COM - The Cost of War http://shar.es/mtD77 excellent counters you can pinpoint with, also easy to embed
Wed April 14, 2010, 12:17 am: Can you see jazz? http://bit.ly/9TEW0L See what can be - do you have it or do U want it? write read verse paper brush bird trane, yes or no?
Mon April 12, 2010, 10:10 pm: " 'Twas ever thus" Twelfth Night
Mon April 12, 2010, 1:18 am: Don't be an artist - Kiko Denzer at Chelsea Green http://shar.es/mscTO
Sat April 10, 2010, 4:38 pm: Sawmill on #Yelp: A great refuge for us while building our cabin - this establishment is So welcome in this area of ... http://bit.ly/bevJlH
Fri April 9, 2010, 5:35 pm: It's snowing on my spring beauties, violets & buttercup leaves, and the robin doth protest
Mon April 5, 2010, 6:04 pm: dried fox nuts: smell fruity like soybeans, look like large white split peas w/ red skin. Nut or bean? - how do you cook them?
Sat April 3, 2010, 2:14 pm: "With this economy, grain & bean worship is almost evangelical.""...is there something about the American psyche that says that tomato plants don't belong in the front yard...?" via splendidtable.org & Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Fri April 2, 2010, 12:54 pm: wishes she could "build a nest of bark, moss, and twigs held together with spider webs"
Tue March 30, 2010, 8:32 pm: spring trots in blooming under the feet of small horses
Sun March 28, 2010, 4:32 pm: cardinals flinging songs over wet shingles, raindrops and bassoon echo round stone pillar and stained glass, astronomers fill the pews and feast on chocolate pastry... a cold Sunday among boarded-up windows and doors and we are weary of snowcake
Fri March 26, 2010, 4:48 am: wet bluebirds, brownies warm from the oven,..............and then, snow...
Sun March 21, 2010, 1:35 pm: South Dakota Wall agate bound with silver girlscout cookies in green and blue boxes green and white light the equinox vernal warm and furry feed the ongoing flame food on plates. [see blog for punctuation... wrarck]
Thu March 18, 2010, 8:39 am: Heard a peeper, children's voices on the run past the gas wells through the trees, coltsfoots emerge and saw Venus under an earthlit crescent; darkness is my cloak.
Wed March 17, 2010, 12:38 am: Orion wheeling overland, mud here, there, everywhere, wind rushing...what scrambled her brain, vacant, abandoned, shutters swinging in a dark breeze?
Wed March 17, 2010, 12:38 am: Snowbanks melting revealing forgotten microwave ovens and underwear, ripped and black. Red-winged blackbirds in a flock of starlings growing on the tops of trees noise up the sky. Iris shoots and runs, wet, glittering, in the gloaming out in the wind roaming. And the house shrudders. Silent on the roof, watching.
Thu March 4, 2010, 5:33 pm: "The plate may be stored in the refrigerator and reused for up to 2 weeks (or until it falls apart or you notice green fuzz, whichever comes first).": a peek inside that irreverent space of the artist's world, http://bit.ly/cV3ODC . Jacket shadow flutters across the snow field in late late winter sun - alive.
Thu March 4, 2010, 5:28 pm: Figured out via Ryan Locke how to block that Friend Q&A thing: just click on the little square smiley face button under the big blue box icon to go to that app page, then click "Block this app" under the picture. Now you won't see it on anyone's Wall anywhere. Till the next cruddy App pops up like Whack-an-App...
Tue March 2, 2010, 10:20 pm: I heard doves calling in the far far distance this morning thin and pale like thread in a glacier looming still over the village. Plus easy danger zum-zum whee: http://bit.ly/b9Frq6
Sun February 28, 2010, 5:09 pm: I smelled Spring today, I did , I did! Spring! Spring!,,, ! ... ! ,,, ! ... Did anyone else?!?!
Sun February 28, 2010, 1:17 am: Potatoes in the fire of the wood stove, air filled with snow, night filled with light, boots full of toes, door full of out, head fulla shouldas, I'm playing Ludwigville - who wants to join me?
Thu February 25, 2010, 1:08 pm: Galleriffic versus Galleria? fresh album here Jalbum http://p15828.jalbum.net/Diana-Ludwig-Artworks/
Mon February 22, 2010, 5:27 pm: "...estimating the cost of one Tomahawk cruise missile tipped with a Raytheon guidance system at $840,000, Greg Mortenson writes, 'For that much money you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, nonextremist education over the course of a generation.' Then he poses a provocative question: 'Which do you think will make us more secure?'" http://bit.ly/aKbq9P
Thu February 18, 2010, 8:23 pm: Finally they meet! Obama & Dali Lama, photo by Pete Souza http://flic.kr/p/7DXSBM
Wed February 17, 2010, 8:58 pm: Twin Spirits: live theatre w/ Sting, his wife Trudie Styler, Clara Schumann & Derek Jacobi: Sweet! http://bit.ly/bQ6nmv
Sun February 14, 2010, 12:39 am: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer http://bit.ly/9czLJO
Fri February 12, 2010, 10:18 pm: Neighboring Ice - one of new photos from the Wintering Place in the Artist Belt of the US http://flic.kr/p/7CEadE
Wed February 10, 2010, 12:52 am: Why aren't we doing more to protect no-carbon commuters?: http://tinyurl.change.org/sOYJE Safe to use your own 2 feet, own 2 wheels?
Sun February 7, 2010, 1:52 am: Cindy Ross writes - Forest drilling poses threat: http://bit.ly/bgtAaS Senate bill & 1215 HR bill 2766
Sat February 6, 2010, 10:05 pm: blizzard of snow pics makes the weather in my own neck of the fb neighborhood white, I like everyone's - storm on, let's see more
Fri February 5, 2010, 6:38 pm: Soup & sandwich on the woodstove. Senate becoming dysfunctional - Senate rules need to be reviewed & re-endowed with common sense. Snow. Cat. Art.
Thu February 4, 2010, 2:01 am: "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." Will Durant
Tue February 2, 2010, 8:49 pm: blade slicing through woody flesh, promise of warmth; David Byrne http://bit.ly/cC2zM9 on Marketplace today promoting Bikeshare http://bit.ly/cQFn9f
Mon February 1, 2010, 7:28 pm: Car sharing Up -1 shared vehicle replace 15 personally owned cars & carsharing members drove 31% less http://su.pr/1JDKU4 zipcar.com
Sat January 30, 2010, 3:04 pm: "...the hammer doesn't always work, you need to drink tea as well."
Wed January 27, 2010, 5:28 pm: "...Why else do we grant them honored space in our living rooms, our bedrooms? Why else are we so careful not to bend their spines? ...The fact is that books are special. ...I can't see people expressing the same reverence for the flashing bits of data that flicker across their e-books..." :Eric Weiner http://bit.ly/coYrj0
Wed January 27, 2010, 11:26 am: Tried for crows, could only get chickadees... yet another mispoke from infamous WKBN host DR :"I don't wanna just start blowing people away willy-nilly - we should be organized..." Canfield on CNN today for coming in second place in unemployment figures statewide
Mon January 25, 2010, 4:46 pm: " 'Well, we came here to celebrate a hero,' said Margie. 'an American by the name of Gussie Norlander. He was from our town. He died in the liberation of Rome.' Mr. Columbo shrugged. 'All dead men are heroes, & the rest of us are cowards.' " from Pilgrims, by Garrison Keillor, 2009.
Sun January 24, 2010, 10:35 pm: ExxonMoblie: excited a little overwhelmed celebrate by buying itself a little treat namely US House of Representatives http://bit.ly/66D0Xy
Sat January 23, 2010, 1:07 pm: running in pursuit of a very large possum trotting through the back of the back
Thu January 21, 2010, 12:11 pm: Living without heat-The Cool Crowd - http://nyti.ms/6gm0tW
Thu January 21, 2010, 11:30 am: Currently reading http://tylersclark.com/blog/2010/01/conservative-court-approves-u-s-a-inc/
Mon January 18, 2010, 11:18 am: http://bit.ly/4YTWSq Never mind what people believe—how can we change what they do? A chat with Robert Cialdini
Sun January 17, 2010, 2:55 am: "Mr. Odom had a church in North Dakota and he thought he wasn't doing any good, he was only a minister. So he asked himself, What job can I find where I *know* I'll do some good? and he came up with janitor." Garrison Keillor in WLT: A Radio Romance, c. 1991
Sun January 10, 2010, 7:40 pm: sad beauty: 'Flirted With You All My Life' by Vic Chesnutt (MP3 Download) http://bit.ly/4whoeg
Thu January 7, 2010, 1:23 pm: sweeping snow, two crows on a wire, watching ice grow sparkling in security, admiring the furnace man's young pet rats... nuthatches in the woods
Tue January 5, 2010, 4:18 am: observed this: all night long sitting on a cardboard box watching for bunny rabbits in the snow.
Mon January 4, 2010, 12:26 am: sparkling crystal snowflakes fluttering though frigidity landing on rabbit fur and cat fur alike...turn out the christmas lights...seal the envelopes...fold the blankets...and lie down in the empty world.
Thu December 31, 2009, 2:03 am: saw rabbit in the night snow. so did Becca Fowler http://www.sharesomecandy.com/2009/12/becca-fowler.html
Tue December 29, 2009, 9:30 pm: Back of Winter - http://panoramio.com/photo/30416875
Tue December 29, 2009, 12:38 am: for days when you can't lift your head up off the table: http://rotateme.org/?u=facebook.com&r=r Do more at: http://rotateme.org/
Mon December 28, 2009, 1:39 am: blowing and snowing, looking up eskabe gas heater pilot cleaning, crappy GM Korean-made headlights and high-tech insect binoculars before loading art, before catching the UFO roundup - there goes the plow
Fri December 25, 2009, 5:27 pm: Watching "GOOD: Bright Orange" on Babelgum - http://www.babelgum.com/3021419
Fri December 25, 2009, 9:38 am: it's pouring and blowing -- to uncle and aunt's we go
Wed December 23, 2009, 6:42 am: red shirts stiff as boards -- "what would you do next: shoot the sky?" (D.C.) -- cold snow lying warm under crow wings early in the morning
Mon December 21, 2009, 12:16 pm: picking up unloved artworks
Sat December 19, 2009, 10:58 pm: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fri December 11, 2009, 11:46 pm: Tarpon: scroll way down to the long (only) review http://bit.ly/5IBMex
Thu December 10, 2009, 12:20 am: addicted to our woodstove... Fire: Goood, heat: good and the axe is not your friend
Tue December 8, 2009, 6:41 pm: "So this is Christmas, And what have you done, Another year over, And a new one just begun,... War is over, If you want it, War is over, Now..." J L
Fri December 4, 2009, 9:49 pm: Check out 'No War No More: Poems, Essays, Photos and Artwork for Peace' by (Paperback - Sep 3, 2007) http://bit.ly/8MNdK6
Thu December 3, 2009, 9:06 pm: http://www.desmogblog.com/elizabeth-may-informed-look-east-anglia-emails Elizabeth May: An Informed Look at the East Anglia Emails
Wed December 2, 2009, 9:44 pm: windy, rainey, non-news about a non-war, cooking meals on a woodstove, splitting chunks of maple and oak with an axe
Tue December 1, 2009, 6:14 pm: Is anybody else "Waving" ?
Thu November 26, 2009, 6:57 pm: woodstove, kitty, Doug, Diana: all fuzzy warm happy
Wed November 25, 2009, 12:21 pm: TW1TT3Rart #TWITTERart █┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█┐┌█ █┴┤└┴█┴┤└┴█┴┘└┴█┴┘└┴█┴┼┼┴█┴┘├┼█ █─┴█──█┴─█┴─█──█──█─┴█┴┴█┴─█┴┴█
Sat November 21, 2009, 11:39 pm: Just found Scrapbooked Encounters of a Paranormal Kind on YUDU - http://www.yudu.com/i/49l
Thu November 19, 2009, 2:12 pm: how to get the crash and wave and bare and rock hard and raw spruce and loose moose of Newfoundland and Labrador scenery captured on flat ol' paper and board, and pull the story out and drive it in - lotsa prussian blue and scraping grey-greens. And some shrieks.
Wed November 18, 2009, 11:23 am: Currently reading http://tylersclark.com/blog/2009/09/power-of-the-arts-series/
Wed November 18, 2009, 1:38 am: Just changed my twitter background, check it out! Found it at http://www.TwitterBackgrounds.com
Sat November 14, 2009, 10:17 pm: romping with chipmunk in the bathroom - very acrobatic, we did a hysterical dance for a while before making a jammie-clad trek through the night leaves to the edge of the woods. He sat nestled in his towel for long minutes, I touched him & he bounded into the brush.
Fri November 13, 2009, 3:25 pm: finishing up bird art piece
Thu November 12, 2009, 4:18 pm: ingesting inferno chili with sweet fresh habaneros & jalepenos & crushed fresh dried sage leaves
Wed November 11, 2009, 11:07 pm: Anyone hear of a band called Distortion and/or a Ryan Hemenway?
Tue November 10, 2009, 12:00 am: http://twitdraw.com/dsg636 landscape sketch #twitdraw
Fri October 30, 2009, 3:27 pm: my Gami Starz origami fun customizable Greeting at Zazzle.com: http://bit.ly/SWqvX via @addthis
Tue October 27, 2009, 11:37 pm: fun -unique - Be a watcher! film here: The Mona Lisa Mosaic Masterpiece http://bit.ly/16TfzH
Sun October 25, 2009, 9:06 pm: boiling water on the woodstove for tea, watching Jupiter next to bright first quarter moon
Sat October 24, 2009, 9:12 pm: so how long have the internal posts on Facebook been searchable / retrievable by Google, etc. ?
Sat October 24, 2009, 7:45 pm: Currently reading http://bit.ly/d22dP
Wed October 21, 2009, 4:12 am: saw a couple Orionids between the pines, couldn't stay long, avoided porkies doddering alongside the road & many deer & a fuzzy grey 'coon all scampering around in the road
Mon October 19, 2009, 3:49 pm: Mona Lisa Mosaic Mural Unveiled http://networkedblogs.com/p15046282
Mon October 19, 2009, 3:37 pm: Finland becoming the first in Europe, nay the world, to legislate for broadband to be a universal service. This anticipates similar moves in other countries: Austria, England... Life, Liberty & Broadband for all...
Sat October 17, 2009, 8:44 pm: slate-coloured juncos, tufted mouse tits, & blue jays dancing in my front yard
Thu October 15, 2009, 9:00 pm: heating water for coffee on the woodstove
Thu October 15, 2009, 1:22 am: RT @MMFlint: Michael Moore on Today Show this morn THURS around 7:05am celebrate $140 billion bonuses being handed to Wall St w/ our money.
Wed October 14, 2009, 5:07 pm: smell of gas, lick of salt, blue jays fly about the churchyard
Tue October 13, 2009, 3:55 pm: infinite journal! no film no music Just Write & create=yay! http://tinyurl.com/y8bmlyx
Mon October 12, 2009, 1:05 am: What should Obama do about the Honduran coup? - http://bit.ly/2li1Bv
Sun October 11, 2009, 10:40 pm: 2 am frost we've covered the calendula and stuffed the stove with small oak limbs
Wed October 7, 2009, 1:27 pm: 130 miles from intrusive...generally discreet, weakly to moderately deformed bodies... with subordinate amphibolite
Tue October 6, 2009, 4:44 pm: watching kayaks go by under slate grey skies at Brewed Awakenings, Apppleton, across from a reader of Isaacson's bio of Einstein
Wed September 30, 2009, 5:52 pm: http://twitter.com/dailycoyote sez:dailycoyote It's snowing!!!!!! It's snowing it's snowing it's snowing!!!1!
Wed September 30, 2009, 5:49 pm: http://bit.ly/HJDPl via someecards.com Socialized medicine scares me a lot less than the people scared of socialized medicine
Mon September 28, 2009, 5:10 am: lightening flashing, rain beating
Mon September 28, 2009, 4:54 am: http://bit.ly/T8dsp
Sat September 26, 2009, 10:14 pm: twit Canvolution A canvolution has begun, Canning Across America, "a series, every summer, of short but violently active cannings" MKF
Fri September 25, 2009, 8:25 pm: at play in the asters of the field with the autumn wind and deer under the oaks at the church and six golf balls
Fri September 25, 2009, 5:45 am: thinking about chipmunks & listening to Bill Clinton urge us to do some'ing 'bout healthcare & energy
Thu September 24, 2009, 6:30 pm: thinks it's cool that Angela Merkel the East German physicist who also happens to be the Chancellor is hanging out not too far away in Pittsburgh
Wed September 23, 2009, 10:06 pm: OK enough of that!whack whack whack back to work!
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:58 pm: http://twitdraw.com/bcsfqo Add to this Graffiti and pass it @ 3 people! @Sunsalix @tsaska @vickidasilva
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:35 pm: is, yahy, just a twit drawing....
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:32 pm: http://twitdraw.com/rz1e4d @Adorimama #twitdraw
Wed September 23, 2009, 9:29 pm: http://twitdraw.com/torbq7 @RinDiZa #twitdraw
Wed September 23, 2009, 5:28 pm: is glad, or at least hopes, she will probably never B guilty of driving while intexticated
Tue September 22, 2009, 12:52 pm: Ohio-ans, put your 2 cents in here at this Should We Have Passenger Train Service in Ohio survey from ".gov" See Link on my Wall-- the 2000 comments were pretty encouraging --add yours at the end.
Mon September 21, 2009, 5:41 pm: chocolates, oils & spices on Bleecker Street near Annie's Breads
Sat September 19, 2009, 12:52 pm: Lebensqualität - earth spinning at 1000 miles per hour* - go to studio, make art (*a little more if at the equator)
Fri September 18, 2009, 9:09 pm: "...our impact on the world is slight, so take life as a comedy and play it for laughs. You die, there is a sort of decent grief and a few people really do suffer from your absence, but the impact on the greater world is negligible. You do not leave a big hole. They dig a hole and put you in it." Garrison Keillor, in Homegrown Democrat (food for thought)
Wed September 16, 2009, 7:58 pm: "pet's lives are shorter than yours because if you died first, who would take care of your little pet?..." Michael Savage via radio, trying to explain the problem of our attachment to these small creatures
Wed September 16, 2009, 11:56 am: off to Victoria's farmstead
Wed September 16, 2009, 1:08 am: "Last week President Obama spoke slowly & forcefully about the basic concepts of right & wrong to a varied audience most of whom had no idea what he was talking about or why they were being forced to listen to him...& he also spoke to schoolchildren.": heard from Peter Sagal on radio last week.
Sat September 12, 2009, 3:00 pm: unhappy abundance of fresh & forlorn groceries in the fridge
Thu September 10, 2009, 7:59 pm: Caught cricket. Lost cricket. Re-caught cricket. Evicted cricket. She's asleep.
Tue September 8, 2009, 3:53 pm: RT @politico Newt Gingrich: 'Every child' should read speech - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com http://bit.ly/6dHqc
Tue September 8, 2009, 2:32 pm: Come to " Arts District Meet and Greet Meeting" Thursday, September 10 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Arts District Meet... http://bit.ly/Nx8dP
Sun September 6, 2009, 12:26 pm: See Live Glassblowing at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in NeenahOctober 15 - 18, 2009 -- http://bit.ly/17ILTk
Sat September 5, 2009, 1:43 am: my Wichita lineman is coming home..."there comes a time" to wax the sweet sugar floor and open the burlap door
Thu September 3, 2009, 6:10 pm: No one should die because they cannot afford health care and no one should go broke if they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
Wed September 2, 2009, 4:52 pm: brilliant blue sky, quiet except for crickets, my head hurts
Tue September 1, 2009, 1:40 pm: sounds of distant explosions, ah we're in the Valley...The Bees, Ted and Gasoline along with Billy the Dog and sweet rotting odor of apples on the road
Tue September 1, 2009, 5:08 am: http://bit.ly/104WOc via @addthis Milanville painting another world long ago, above the Delaware, not far from Innisfree & Skinner's Falls
Mon August 31, 2009, 10:52 am: cold sun on the edge of autumn, Venus bright in the early a.m., whole grain hot cereal with cinnamon & maple syrup
Sun August 30, 2009, 10:35 am: COOK FOREST SAWMILL ART CENTER 2009 CLASS LIST, between SEPT. 12 & 13 and Nov 15. WOODCARVING – WOODSPIRITS OIL... http://bit.ly/RDhKS
Fri August 28, 2009, 12:02 am: clouds low, trains loud, blankets and flannel shirts, lemon rind in the oven...wash the scissors, snip of grass shears metal rings over a coal town yard thirty-seven years ago
Thu August 27, 2009, 9:57 pm: http://bit.ly/10RSSI via @addthis
Wed August 26, 2009, 2:59 pm: rooting around for coloured envelopes
Tue August 25, 2009, 11:55 pm: and the spider has spots on its legs like the one Big Daddy Rock sent dancing around the tattoo parlour in pennsylvania
Tue August 25, 2009, 11:49 pm: watching in awe spider weave its gossamer web on our clothesline, tacking silvery filament to & fro guiding it just so with a back leg, running & spewing so fine a thread: I can't spin silk out my butt can u?
Tue August 25, 2009, 1:59 am: prowling around making sure raccoons aren't in the attic
Sun August 23, 2009, 1:32 am: fungi funk http://flic.kr/p/34mJ8k
Sun August 16, 2009, 11:22 pm: katy-did, katy-did, in dark oaks, scampering jingle betrays night moves of Frances the cat
Sun August 16, 2009, 5:41 pm: internet having its 40th birthday?
Sun August 16, 2009, 5:22 pm: listening to a story on the radio:"Is the Internet rotting our brain, is Google making us stoopid....?"
Sat August 15, 2009, 10:51 pm: hey we went haying; helped a friend bale hay for their horses
Fri August 14, 2009, 3:20 am: coons squalling & fussing out in neighbor's giant oak tree. train whistle floats up the night.wondering when my bleeding heart will sprout
Thu August 13, 2009, 2:44 am: torn socks, broom knocked over by the cat...Perseids falling out of the sky
Tue August 11, 2009, 10:15 pm: katydids, crickets, drunk-driven truck with a wooden tailgate, catfeet running on a roof...lightening bugs... Perseids are falling tonite
Tue August 11, 2009, 4:26 pm: bubbles in the puddles, rumbles of thunders, morning glory creeps past the kitchen window
Tue August 11, 2009, 7:44 am: dew on the blooms... eggs in the cast-iron pan
Sun August 9, 2009, 11:30 pm: cat casts her little moon shadow running under the broken wheelbarrow
Sun August 9, 2009, 1:24 pm: tutti fruity fondants discount for spaying Squeaky hot-water bath canner 11 1/2 quarts reasonable physics textbooks stinger missle brochure rainlight fairfotos cupboard doors tansy
Fri August 7, 2009, 12:32 pm: threatening rain clouds
Thu August 6, 2009, 11:27 am: 48 degrees at Warren airport this early A.M.; Doug just saw pair of fighter jets fly over
Wed August 5, 2009, 7:15 pm: cherry herb tea & gnashing teeth over changes Vista hath wrought, in this get-acquainted period with this notebook ARGH
Wed August 5, 2009, 12:01 pm: helping tote plywood to and fro, listening to the saw
Tue August 4, 2009, 5:15 pm: where can I see some white hot iron being poured?
Mon August 3, 2009, 10:19 pm: helping with hanging of Trumbull Area Artists' show
Sun August 2, 2009, 8:30 pm: hearing a young katydid in the dark
Sat August 1, 2009, 6:48 am: waiting on the Cat & listening to Living On Earth
Wed July 29, 2009, 3:12 pm: cleaning soggy detritus out of the rain gutters
Wed July 29, 2009, 9:29 am: listening to the blue jays in the rain
Wed July 15, 2009, 1:33 pm: helping load metal painted yellow
Thu July 9, 2009, 8:46 pm: Lawns On Drugs -- Just Say "NO"!
Wed July 8, 2009, 7:06 pm: "I don't want to make a lot of money, I just want to be wonderful." Marilyn Monroe said this. Don't we all...
Wed July 1, 2009, 2:15 pm: storm watching
Wed June 17, 2009, 11:51 am: weeding; spotting great blue herons
Sat June 13, 2009, 5:49 pm: a hundred and eighty tons of poetry being hauled upriver on a barge in Cincinnati right this very moment by Garrison Keillor and Billy Collins...and a joke about Teaneck, New Jersey
Sat June 13, 2009, 10:58 am: watching flowers grow and writing
Mon June 1, 2009, 10:47 pm: lightening flashing, thunder rain-rattling in the brick canyons
Mon June 1, 2009, 9:01 pm: loves my Wall-'s' today -- what's gottinto youall? mustbe something in the air..?
Fri May 29, 2009, 6:36 pm: hoping my seeds sprout
Thu May 28, 2009, 12:49 am: colours of sleep...dancing dollar bills...cat fur...
Tue May 26, 2009, 9:31 am: learning a smidgeon of FinalCutPro and trying to prop open eyes
Mon May 18, 2009, 8:30 pm: figuring out where to plant things, and keeping the fire going...
Fri May 8, 2009, 2:52 pm: enjoying Spring
Sat May 2, 2009, 7:56 pm: trying to figure out how to replace the tensioner on a wringer washer
Sat May 2, 2009, 6:15 pm: listening to Prairie Home Companion.. sugah, sugah
Tue April 28, 2009, 6:02 pm: relishing 6 homemade soups at the Masonic temple on a rainy evening
Sat April 25, 2009, 7:27 pm: giving misdirections to the Canfield "observatory?"
Sat April 25, 2009, 7:27 pm: giving misdirections to the Canfield "observatory?"
Sun April 19, 2009, 7:48 pm: looking for lunar and star atlases...
Sat April 18, 2009, 3:07 pm: talkin' 'bout m-m-m-my Pleiades mural painting....
Fri April 17, 2009, 2:19 pm: practice run on planetarium show for conference tomorrow
Sun April 5, 2009, 4:52 pm: heard an inspiring & moving presentation by Chloe Schwenke at Unitarian church
Sat April 4, 2009, 9:44 pm: hundred hours of astronomy going great at Ward Beecher
Fri April 3, 2009, 10:12 pm: looking up David Lynch and what sort of bizarre video en-up-coding he did to his latest film Inland Empire...some kinda unplayable mixture
Fri April 3, 2009, 12:32 pm: thinking about iron furnaces and picking up star maps
Mon March 30, 2009, 9:33 pm: splitting firewood from an oak that the wind blew down last fall that Mister Pirko helped us cut up and put away so we'd be warm this winter and cold spring...
Sat March 21, 2009, 6:57 pm: is planting ourselves in the planetarium for Durrell lecture
Sat March 21, 2009, 2:07 pm: is painting a painting (virtually) and seeking Talking Heads lyrics and being confused as usual...
Sun March 15, 2009, 3:09 pm: is trying NOT to be scattered!!
Sat March 14, 2009, 4:33 pm: window shopping for laptop that can run Photoshop (esp its fliters & large file save) at lightening speed -- any hints?
Thu March 12, 2009, 8:40 pm: had a great cold afternoon watering horses at the Pirko estate
Sun March 8, 2009, 12:55 pm: is growling at tracfone
Tue February 24, 2009, 6:36 pm: -- okay,okay, --is giving up on giving up!
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:48 pm: is giving up
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:48 pm: giving up
Sat February 21, 2009, 10:38 pm: is looking for mislaid flower portraits
Sat February 21, 2009, 9:51 pm: is wondering how deep the snow is
Sat February 21, 2009, 4:03 pm: is .... if she knew she'd tell you
Mon February 16, 2009, 8:59 pm: dithering wildly.
Mon February 16, 2009, 8:53 pm: is frittering away
July 1, 2003
coons and woodcocks
Pair of coons splashing in the spring freshet gurgling through the woods, in the dark, their white masked faces peering uncertainly at me...woodcock peenting, circling, then dropping whistling.
next night Big Dipper lying upside down on the roof of Greenwood studio, just out of reach, i can't stop it from pouring the universe down all over the house, getting art all over Doug's wood... piney glittterings over the road, sliced by a meteor...most are asleep. Drawn to a forgotten light, a mammoth moosehead lurches into the room, widening my eyes.
DM number two, or is the same Displaced Mouse returned?, 1 am relocation program hike down another dirt road.
June 2, 2001
Code of the Eco-Warrior
Rule Number One
Nobody gets hurt. Nobody. Not even yourself.
Corollary: The eco-warrior hurts no living thing, absolutely never.
Corollary: The eco-warrior is strong, lean, tough, hardy. The eco-warrior can hike twenty miles overnight, over any terrain, in any kind of weather, with a fifty-pound pack on his back. Maybe sixty pounds. And do it night after night, through brush and swamp, cactus and rattlesnakes, mountain and forest. The eco-warrior does not chain-drink beer or chain-smoke cigars. The eco-warrior takes care of himself, herself, bounces back from injury and exhaustion, never gets sick or if sick carries on despite sickness. The eco-warrior is tough, the eco-warrior is brave, taking on the risks of a soldier in frontline combat, the dangers of a commando behind the lines. The eco-warrior is a guerrilla soldier fighting a war against an enemy equipped with high technology, tax-extracted public funds, legal privilege, media protection, superior numbers, police and secret police, communication police and thought police. Fighting them all, the eco-warrior cannot even carry a weapon; his own Code of Honorable Conduct forbids it.
Corollary: The eco-warrior does not fight people, he fights an institution, the planetary Empire of Growth and Greed. He fights not human beings but a monstrous megamachine never seen since the days of the Late Jurassic and the carnivorous dinosaur. He does not fight humans, he fights a runaway technology, an all-devouring entity that feeds on humans, on all animals, on all living things, and even finally on minerals, metals, rock, soil, on the earth itself, on the bedrock basis of universal being.
Rule Number Two
Don’t Get Caught.
Corollary: The eco-warrior avoids capture, passing all costs on to them, the enemy. The point of his work is to increase their costs, nudge them toward net loss, bankruptcy, forcing them to withdraw and retreat from their invasion of our public lands, our wilderness, our native and primordial home.
Rule Number Three
If you do get caught you’re on your own. Nobody goes your bail. Nobody hires a lawyer. Nobody pays your fines.
Corollary: The eco-warrior works alone, or with one or two old and trusted comrades that he’s known for years. The eco-warrior forms no network, creates no club or party or organization of any kind. He relies on himself (or sometimes herself) and on his little cell of two or three, never more…a small circle of trusted friends, a tiny felonious conspiracy to commit non-felonious misdemeanors against the perimeters of the techno-industrial ordnung. The eco-warrior must also be a man or woman of heroic dedication to the work, avoiding organization and all forms of networking, operating strictly on anarchic principles of democratic decentralism. Not fanatic dedication—no place for fanatics here—but heroic dedication. Because the eco-warrior must do his or her work without hope of fame or glory or even public recognition, at least for the present. The eco-warrior is anonymous, mysterious, unknown, is awarded no medals, is granted no privileges of rank. Not only does he win no taste of personal fame, he must expect the opposite, namely and to wit, public obloquy, vilification, and verbal abuse. He must expect that certain elements of the power structure will murmur against him. Editorial writers will denounce him, anonymously, from the safe security of their editorial offices. Commerce chambers will burn him in effigy—or in person if they catch him. Congressmen will fulminate, senators abominate, bureaucrats denunciate and all the vipers of the media vituperate. Those who should be his admirers will also denounce him. The official conservation societies and wilderness clubs and wildlife federations and defenders of fur-bearers and national resource defense councils will scramble and scurry to place maximum distance between themselves and him, insisting that they deplore his work and even going so far as to offer monetary reward for information leading to his capture and conviction. Not only does the eco-warrior work without hope of fame and praise, not only does he work in the dark of night amidst a storm of official public calumny, but he works without hope of pecuniary recompense.
Corollary: The eco-warrior does his work out of love, the love that dare not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies and flowing streams, grizzly bear, mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth.
Rule Number Four
No domestic responsibilities. The eco-warrior does not marry, if he marries he does not breed. Better not to marry. She does not marry or bred. The eco-warrior, like a priest or priestess, like a samurai, like a dedicated revolutionary, forgoes he personal pleasures of ordinary life, forgoes ordinary life, for the sake of the great case. For a time only, naturally. When he reaches the age of forty, or she of thirty, if they’re still alive and not in jail, then they retire from the war against goliath and rejoin the natural, evolutionary mainstream of organic life. The eco-war is only for the young.
Extracted without permission from Hayduke Lives!, Estate of Edward Abbey. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1990. pp.110-114.
May 18, 2002 keeping this active
Rule Number One
Nobody gets hurt. Nobody. Not even yourself.
Corollary: The eco-warrior hurts no living thing, absolutely never.
Corollary: The eco-warrior is strong, lean, tough, hardy. The eco-warrior can hike twenty miles overnight, over any terrain, in any kind of weather, with a fifty-pound pack on his back. Maybe sixty pounds. And do it night after night, through brush and swamp, cactus and rattlesnakes, mountain and forest. The eco-warrior does not chain-drink beer or chain-smoke cigars. The eco-warrior takes care of himself, herself, bounces back from injury and exhaustion, never gets sick or if sick carries on despite sickness. The eco-warrior is tough, the eco-warrior is brave, taking on the risks of a soldier in frontline combat, the dangers of a commando behind the lines. The eco-warrior is a guerrilla soldier fighting a war against an enemy equipped with high technology, tax-extracted public funds, legal privilege, media protection, superior numbers, police and secret police, communication police and thought police. Fighting them all, the eco-warrior cannot even carry a weapon; his own Code of Honorable Conduct forbids it.
Corollary: The eco-warrior does not fight people, he fights an institution, the planetary Empire of Growth and Greed. He fights not human beings but a monstrous megamachine never seen since the days of the Late Jurassic and the carnivorous dinosaur. He does not fight humans, he fights a runaway technology, an all-devouring entity that feeds on humans, on all animals, on all living things, and even finally on minerals, metals, rock, soil, on the earth itself, on the bedrock basis of universal being.
Rule Number Two
Don’t Get Caught.
Corollary: The eco-warrior avoids capture, passing all costs on to them, the enemy. The point of his work is to increase their costs, nudge them toward net loss, bankruptcy, forcing them to withdraw and retreat from their invasion of our public lands, our wilderness, our native and primordial home.
Rule Number Three
If you do get caught you’re on your own. Nobody goes your bail. Nobody hires a lawyer. Nobody pays your fines.
Corollary: The eco-warrior works alone, or with one or two old and trusted comrades that he’s known for years. The eco-warrior forms no network, creates no club or party or organization of any kind. He relies on himself (or sometimes herself) and on his little cell of two or three, never more…a small circle of trusted friends, a tiny felonious conspiracy to commit non-felonious misdemeanors against the perimeters of the techno-industrial ordnung. The eco-warrior must also be a man or woman of heroic dedication to the work, avoiding organization and all forms of networking, operating strictly on anarchic principles of democratic decentralism. Not fanatic dedication—no place for fanatics here—but heroic dedication. Because the eco-warrior must do his or her work without hope of fame or glory or even public recognition, at least for the present. The eco-warrior is anonymous, mysterious, unknown, is awarded no medals, is granted no privileges of rank. Not only does he win no taste of personal fame, he must expect the opposite, namely and to wit, public obloquy, vilification, and verbal abuse. He must expect that certain elements of the power structure will murmur against him. Editorial writers will denounce him, anonymously, from the safe security of their editorial offices. Commerce chambers will burn him in effigy—or in person if they catch him. Congressmen will fulminate, senators abominate, bureaucrats denunciate and all the vipers of the media vituperate. Those who should be his admirers will also denounce him. The official conservation societies and wilderness clubs and wildlife federations and defenders of fur-bearers and national resource defense councils will scramble and scurry to place maximum distance between themselves and him, insisting that they deplore his work and even going so far as to offer monetary reward for information leading to his capture and conviction. Not only does the eco-warrior work without hope of fame and praise, not only does he work in the dark of night amidst a storm of official public calumny, but he works without hope of pecuniary recompense.
Corollary: The eco-warrior does his work out of love, the love that dare not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies and flowing streams, grizzly bear, mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth.
Rule Number Four
No domestic responsibilities. The eco-warrior does not marry, if he marries he does not breed. Better not to marry. She does not marry or bred. The eco-warrior, like a priest or priestess, like a samurai, like a dedicated revolutionary, forgoes he personal pleasures of ordinary life, forgoes ordinary life, for the sake of the great case. For a time only, naturally. When he reaches the age of forty, or she of thirty, if they’re still alive and not in jail, then they retire from the war against goliath and rejoin the natural, evolutionary mainstream of organic life. The eco-war is only for the young.
Extracted without permission from Hayduke Lives!, Estate of Edward Abbey. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1990. pp.110-114.
May 18, 2002 keeping this active
June 1, 2001
Not there..So beautiful and quiet. Nice park ranger wrote about trail that might not be. We have aor shall invite over for medicinal nature cure: Larry, Carrie, Bunn-E, Louie, Jim, Anne, Jim, Ted, Rich, all those of troubled heart and sore of spirit and weary of mind come to along the river and hear the chimes of peace that always were ringing inside your rib-cage..and SEE.
May 22, 2001
I'm not there--miss my life so much!! Tomorrow should call over to get name of trail across the river.
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