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You Talk Of Going But Don't Even Have A Suitcase (A Series of Repetitions)

I will be an old man sometime And live in a dark room somewhere. I will think of this night someplace the rain falling on stone. There will be no one near no whisper on the street only this song of old yearning and the longing to be young with you together on some street. Now is the time for retreat, This is the last chance. This is not the last chance. Why only yesterday I lay drugged on the dark bed while they came and went as the wind and they shall come again to bear me down into that pit there is no returning from. Old age, disaster, doom. It shall be as this room. With you by the sink, pinching your face in the mirror. Time is as a river and I shall forget this night, its joy. You shall disappear down the road and I shall moan your name in the pillow, while candles burn outside in windows of strange houses to mark our fame.

Pencil sculptures

Interesting Letterhead Designs

nice to see Donald Roller Wilson is still at it...

some books on walking ....

The Winter War

walking with Shasta

Animal Experts Debunk the Alpha-Dog Myth

The debate has its roots in 1940s studies of captive wolves gathered from various places that, when forced to live together, naturally competed for status. Acclaimed animal behaviorist Rudolph Schenkel dubbed the male and female who won out the alpha pair. As it turns out, this research was based on a faulty premise: wolves in the wild, says L. David Mech founder of the Minnesota-based International Wolf Center, actually live in nuclear families, not randomly assembled units, in which the mother and father are the pack leaders and their offspring's status is based on birth order. Mech, who used to ascribe to alpha-wolf theory but has reversed course in recent years, says the pack's hierarchy does not involve anyone fighting to the top of the group, because just like in a human family, the youngsters naturally follow their parents' lead...