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For Story/Nature/Spirit Writers
This is a photograph of one of the living root bridges of CHERAPUNJEE, INDIA. This is my visual metaphor to convey the luring journey of of the ecological writer: to cross the living bridge to the wild. There we attend … Continue reading
Story/Nature/Spirit Writing
Story/Nature/Spirit Writing Tuesday, February 1, 2011, from 7 – 9 pm. Next Tuesday, Randi Chaikind and I will host the first evening Story/Nature/Spirit writing group. This is a special opportunity for you who are already living along the paths of … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Writing, New Adventures, Prescott College, environment
Tagged environment, hiking, nature, wilderness, writing
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2011 Dispatch from Isla Mujers
Last night this small island on the Carribean Sea celebrated the birth of a new year with a joyous raucous latino endless baccanal that continues as I write this Noticia al Norte at 8 am, January 1, 2011. All night … Continue reading
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Box Canyon #4 Ellie Lowenburg
Percussion of my feet on the trail turn bend a stream gurgles adds harmony ——— Cricket hops from the path nothing left but tread prints ————- How not to anthropomorphize faces and statuesque bodies in the cliffs. So confident self … Continue reading
Link to a radio interview with Cinny
http://www.tellurideinside.com/2010/07/cinny-green-of-trail-writers-guide-talks-at-telluride-library-68.html
Box Canyon #3: Kristen Barendsen
At Ghost Ranch Fallen leaves claw their own shadows in the sand. A many-fingered cactus gropes for drops of water. A cluster of beetles throws a party at my feet, humping each other in an orgiastic wake before the coming … Continue reading
Box Canyon #2: Pam Kirkpatrick
WHO OWNS NATURE? Gun shots reverberate off cream and sand colored spires Metal plaques with dead people’s names embedded in large boulders Graffiti rock incised by those who passed by Numbered tin cans on poles mark the trail Rusty barbed … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Writing, Trail Writers Guide, environment
Tagged adventure, books, desert, details, environment, hiking, nature, New Mexico, Trail Writer's Guide, walking, wilderness, writing
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Box Canyon #1: Karen Kerschen
The Santa Fe Women’s Hiking Group ventured up Box Canyon at Ghost Ranch Saturday November 6 for a Trail Writer’s Hike on the theme of Poems at Your Feet. I facilitated their engagement with the extraordinary red rolling hills and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Writing, Trail Writers Guide, environment, writing
Tagged adventure, desert, details, hiking, nature, New Mexico, Trail Writer's Guide, walking, wilderness, writing
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“To bear witness is not a passive act”
I just read an article by Terry Tempest Williams about the Gulf Coast in Orion. The disaster is not over. The devastation to humans and nonhumans is nearly apocalyptic. The heartbreak is beyond anything I have experienced, except in fiction … Continue reading
Exercise as writing practice
Last week I attended the first salon of the Albuquerque Writers Coop sponsored by Lisa Lenard Cook and Lynn Miller. The four panelists talked about their busy writing lives that include journal editorial work, columns, and personal writing–both fiction and … Continue reading
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Tagged book event, hiking, nature, Trail Writer's Guide, walking, writing
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