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in the back of Perry's rig after hanson's hole
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gilmore's mistake

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goslings

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What it looks like to stitch together a 17' sea kayak using marine-grade plywood and copper wire. Brian Collier making the boat that will carry him down the rest of the Missouri with me.
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tart made by student sia gandhi, genius, brought for last day of class
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lepidopteran drying herself in morning sunshine
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A documentary by the Museum of Online Museums featuring the naturalist and artist, my friend and neighbor, Brian Collier and his universal classification system for very small objects.

The Jackson family of Jackson Kayak, a company devoted to green causes and the care of rivers, has since 2004 promoted kayaking as a family sport. Here is Eric with his son Dane, son-in-law Nick and family friends Anne and Clay recreating in the spirit of John Muir on North Chickamauga creek in Tennessee while making a promotional video for their new line of freestyle river runners.

Asimina triloba

 

A gift from Brian and Kris.

The pawpaw tree, native to this region, yields delicious fruits not unlike papaya. One of George Washington's favorite desserts was pudding made from the pawpaw fruit.

Saddhīdha vittaṃ purisassa seṭṭhaṃ
Dhammo suciṇṇo sukhamāvahāti.
Saccaṃ have sādutaraṃ rasānaṃ.
Paññājīviṃ jīvitamāhu seṭṭhaṃ.

Sutta Nipāta 1.184

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to the river after teaching aime cesaire

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i hope u r taking good care of your teeth

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brian planting a paw paw tree, native, next my compost bin between rain showers, thank you, while i prep for teaching aime cesaire

sun under chinese elm between rain squalls

that wood box at top of cedar pole is a bat habitat made by kris and brian

fledgling carolina wren in brian and kris's back yard

happy birthday again Lorine Niedecker

This day in 1903 the excellent Lorine Niedecker was born on Black Hawk Island, Wisconsin, and grew to write of water and love and grief and kindness and friendship, and lived a humble life  and wrote, especially in later years, with succinctness, economy, simplicity.

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iris on her favorite ginormous wool blanket tower

beneath that big mama eagle is the first eaglet born on the mackinaw river in over a century. the family lives at wyatt's ford, not a short drive from the house, at a place of unusual beauty near a shallow and fast bend in the river, where Lincoln used to ford the water on horseback, at a place called the Letcher Basin Preserve which is nice to walk at sun-up in the rain. photo mary jo adams who lives just across the water

chilly here and the lap busy, so hermes crawled into the backpack and took a nap while i was working on the red wool couch.

Gift this afternoon from Brian Collier after I returned home from a first day of teaching Maymester. He took two of my old t-shirts and put his society's logo on them. The Society for a Re-Natural Environment. Small print, "Dedicated to finding and protecting wild nature in human doninated landscapes."

Artist and naturalist Brian Collier in his shop with one of his two prototype seed dispersal mechanisms. This is a hollow walking stick that plants seedballs in the ground. Note the hoe-like tip.

Brian holding the projectile model. Disperses seedballs up to 20 meters.

The handles are made of osage orange, which Brian and I found on the Mackinaw during a beautiful day in April. According to Brian, osage orange is one of the hardest, most durable woods in the world.

hermes after making a racket w/ a box. who, me?

Iris helps with the syllabus

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the origin of mother's day

It was American poet Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," who first called for an international day of mothers. Her 1870 "Mother's Day Proclamation," in which she actually ventriloquized the earth, was pointedly anti-war. It was a call for peace whose intent specifically was to mobilize mothers, in the face of war, in order to save their sons and families in the interests of love and peace. She wrote it after the horrors she had witnessed in the American Civil War and read about in the accounts of the Franco-Prussian War. 

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough 
and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home 
for a great and earnest day of counsel.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

hermes is fascinated by your boat. where it goes, he goes.

under virga, sangamon county heading north

smell of rain, passing the sangamon

dimpled boat for a 13 year old w/ dimples, Clio Bee-O, found in st louis this evening near the old cahokia mounds, where the first nations traded for millennia, at the confluence of the illinois, the mississippi, the missouri, a jackson 2 Fun Classic

in the library upstairs w/ hermes

They don't pine over the past
or yearn for what's to come
they maintain themselves in the present world
and their faces are unworried.

Samyutta Nikaya 1.10

driving home thru the hills of sangamon county after learning to surf the river with stefan curry rincker dixon and buscher and looking forward to meditating

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Brian Collier's jillion seedballs








are filled with heirloom seeds of native plants yay for Brian
yay for old wildflowers

the very gentle hermes experiencing the scents of goji berry tea, tupperware, and homemade sprouted almond pastries

iris and hermes beside a little pile of river chert in their new harnesses on paracord leashes

happy birthday Finnegans Wake published May 4 1939

Love loves to love love.

a note to arizona

When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33-34

compost bin made from wire and old fair trade coffee bags

thank you Kickapoo Coffee organic fair trade microroaster artisan coffee out of Viroqua WI begun and run by friends won the 2010 Roaster of the Year Award by Roast magazine yay for them!