Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Captain Turner

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Kayak-Fishing: JP / Mendocino

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June 13, 2019.
Friday, May 10, 2019

CUPPA-JOE

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How many of you are like me--in that you buy more coffee than you actually drink? That is, I will buy this cup and that cup (in my persona...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Dive-Knife

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When I was exiting the water after kayaking there at the Park Service launch in Jenner, CA, a boy (with his brother and a dog in a kaya...
Friday, July 28, 2017

What Nisus Said

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Nisus ait: 'dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?' Nisus said, Do the gods add this he...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

"When the Ancients Speak"

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In a lecture given at Oxford, Wilamowitz said: 'To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.' When the ancient...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

My Old Joe

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Closet-diving turns up all sort of things. Action-figure from long ago. (Old Joe is older than most of my colleagues.)
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Clay Pony

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

"Njal's Saga": "Thief's Eyes"

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          On one occasion, Hoskuld was holding a feast for his friends; Hrut was there, sitting next to him.  Hoskuld had a daughter named H...
Monday, September 2, 2013

The Kelp Crawlers: A Close-Up

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Postscript: Diana Nyad just completed her Cuba-to-Florida, 110+ miles, at age 64.  I have nothing but respect for open water swimmers.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Lively Water

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I love when the water's lively like this, but then I'm a free diver by nature or maybe just a swimmer, in cases like this one.  Fl...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Shakespeare: "If It Were Done When 'Tis Done"

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Light -- and dark -- reading.
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Wordsworth and Byron: "The After-Vacancy"

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Action is transitory,--a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle--this way or that-- 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at o...