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Essays, Articles, Observations & Images – Through the Lens of the Salish Sea

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Posted on October 23, 2012

Ai Weiwei – Never Sorry

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Recent Posts

  • Wallace Stegner – The Challenge to Preserve
  • Intended consequences
  • The Practice of the Wild – A film about Gary Snyder
  • Farming along the Salish Sea
  • Trumponomics – Simple Supply & Demand
  • The Nixon Question By Garry Wills
  • US Culture In The Midst of Trump
  • “The Exile Returns” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in America
  • Harnessing Technology, Arts, and Culture to Solve Global Challenges – MIT Media Lab
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  • William T. Vollmann – “Nothing is true; all is permissible.”
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  • The War In Ukraine – A Frenchman’s Eyewitness Report – Bernard-Henri Levy
  • The Race Against CO2
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  • Michael Kinsley Weighs in on “The New Republic” Controversy
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  • Accept Disgrace Willingly – Lao Tsu
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  • Rooting
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Poetry is less bound by time and circumstance than any other of the arts; good poetry comes almost directly from a man’s mind, and senses and blood-stream, and no one can predict the man. Robinson Jeffers

Push Not Off From That Isle

Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! ++++ Herman Melville++++ Moby Dick
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