Roof Nails & Toothpicks

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”

I have said before — and it’s partly as confession — that I deeply, viscerally, and inherently distrust people who wear “earpods.”

“Cathedral Pines” — Red “Norway” pines of Eustis, ME

Drove north, went camping, got the t-shirt.

I saw Nolan’s Odyssey last night.

WTOS, The Mountain of Pure Rock (And sometimes Nickelback) (And we all know what to do with Nickelback)

“But I do say that in using computers writers are flirting with a radical separation of mind and body, the elimination of the work of the body from the work of the mind.” — Wendell Berry A few weeks ago, my dad sent me a good Pearls Before Swine cartoon.

“Damariscotta is for spellers“ • So many things I never getting around to posting.

Presented without comment:

Wanting to see and to hear the man himself, I went back and watched Bill Moyer’s 2013 interview with Wendell Berry.

Dispatches from the front

“The young boy climbed a tree”

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you talk smack.

The Old Man Climbs a Tree

How the mighty have fallen • Baldpate Mountain via Table Rock and AT

When God gives you a day to hike a mountain, you wake up early.

Scenes from my childhood • There are many, many things throughout the day that don’t get to stay what they are, so to speak, but get the idiosyncratic redirect.

Radical Anticipation, Part 1 — Through sneaky and mysterious means of charging an expired credit card, I still receive The Point in the mail.

Dispatches from the front (/back seat)

Roman Catholic Ohio Swamp Cicada, napping outside St.

Old road trip pals

The Piscataqua River Bridge to Kittery and Home

Crossing the Hudson on the Rip Van Winkle

The Belle Vernon Bridge over the Monongahela River