“The land looks like a fairytale.” — Roald Amundsen (1872—1928) about Antarctica. “Great God! this is an awful place.” — […]
Archive for ‘(Mis)Adventures’
Road of Technology and Path of Spirit
“Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology […]
Meeting a Man who quit Money.
Sometime around two years ago I read an article about this guy who, the article said, lives in a cave […]
A Thanksgiving Story
Yeah, this is a story about Pilgrims (this pilgrim, anyway) and Indians (Dene, to be specific), just not the typical […]
The hearth outside my cabin.
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.” –Mae […]
My eyeglasses are evil.
Yes, I said evil. But I don’t mean eyeglasses, really, I mean the whole field of modern eye-care — kinda […]
Dances with Mosquitoes
“A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is […]
Birch Syrup from a Magic Forest
“There is always music amongst the trees…but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.” ~Minnie Aumonier It’s a […]
The Practical Primitivist 