In 2014, so many years ago already, Alex and I had a summer full of road trips. I was based out of Lafayette, Indiana, for reasons that I will not
Continue readingIn 2014, so many years ago already, Alex and I had a summer full of road trips. I was based out of Lafayette, Indiana, for reasons that I will not
Continue readingIn the last year, I spent a lot of time staring at two sets of things: maps of Idaho and Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes by William
Continue readingKinkakuji: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion In 1950, a troubled acolyte burned Kinkakuji (the Temple of the Golden Pavilion) to the ground. Then he tried to kill himself. Is
Continue readingShe would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was
Continue readingDuring the summer of 2017, Alex and I (Eric) humped too-heavy packs from Yellowstone National Park to the Birch Creek Valley, about 300 back-country miles away. This was the third
Continue readingI grew up believing that success and happiness in life are the result of hard work. For a long time, this was my primary ideology, one of the most basic
Continue readingThe Memory of Place I am confident that places keep memories just like people do. They at least think. The poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst taught at a lecture in
Continue readingIf you’re looking for a legal, mind-bending way to spend 6 minutes and 30 seconds, check out Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, from 1965’s Bringing it All Back Home. If you’ve
Continue readingVariation on a Bumper Sticker There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen floating around out there. It says: “Socialism: A great idea… ’til you run out of other people’s money!” The
Continue readingPrologue and Apology It seems to me that a deductive logic system is among the colder ways to approach reality. It is the extraction of principle from physical. It is,
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