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  • Omnilingual

    To translate writings, you need a key to the code — and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born … how could the Martian be translated?

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  • The House On The Borderland

    The House On The Borderland

    Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill.

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  • Some Seasons Later

    Some Seasons Later

    I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee. In that middle…

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  • The Windows of Absolute Night

    The Windows of Absolute Night

    To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, “At present I can no longer see my way,” the force of the charm is redoubled.

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  • First Days In The Eternal City

    My strange, and perhaps whimsical, incognito proves useful to me in many ways that I never should have thought of.

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  • The History of Fashion

    A hard fate has condemned human beings to enter this mortal sphere without any natural covering, like that possessed by the lower animals to protect them from the extremes of heat and cold. Had this been otherwise, countless myriads, for untold ages, would have escaped the tyrannical sway of the goddess Fashion, and the French…

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  • The Door In The Wall

    The Door In The Wall

    One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than…

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  • Community Hotline Interview

    Community Hotline Interview

    Check out the interview I did recently with Community Hotline on MetroEast Community Media.No, I’m not the Aliens guy. Click the image below.

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  • Why We Need to Stop Using the “A” Word in the Rewilding & Ancestral Skills Communities

    In the seventies, the ancestral skills community was created and informed by the field of experimental archaeology. These academics began to catalog, preserve, and teach ancestral technology for future generations to learn from and understand. The first time I really heard the term “abo” (shorthand for aboriginal) was at Rabbitstick Rendezvous, the oldest, most renowned…

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  • Wolverine Way Podcast with Ricardo Sierra Interview

    Ricardo Sierra from Hawk’s Circle interviewed me for his Wolverine Way podcast series. We talk about running small businesses that are ancestral skills themed. [Listen Here]

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  • Permaculture Podcast Interview #3

    I chatted with Scott Mann again, this time about the re-release of my book Rewild or Die. [Listen Here]

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  • Rewild Portland Fall 2016 Fundraiser

    Rewild Portland is a trend-setting organization in the rewilding community. Watch our silly video, learn more about us, and donate.

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