WAITING FOR BOREAS The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 January can be a brutal month in the north woods as temperatures can plummet to minus numbers for days and snow can bury you deep. Anyone who has lived a couple of snow…
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WINTER ICE & WATER The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 When I look back at the early years in the cabin it’s interesting to note the “no-frills” approach to the everyday necessities; no running water, no refrigeration, no flush toilet,…
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NEW YEAR The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 In proportion as I have celestial thoughts, is the necessity for me to be out and behold the western sky before sunset these winter days. That is the symbol of the unclouded…
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THE VAULT The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Today’s post is another casual food review of one of my favorite restaurants in downtown Houlton, The Vault Restaurant owned by David and Kristen Wells. The decor and menu both have a dual…
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MARKET PIZZA The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Today’s post is a casual food review of one of the newest restaurants in downtown Houlton, Market Pizza. To be honest, I’m just looking for any excuse to hang out at a…
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REMOTE LOCATION The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Richard Grossinger: What would you say to people who say they’re isolated? Gary Snyder: In relation to what? Nobody is really ever isolated. The question seems to be whether or not they’re…
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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 End of daylight savings time I’m sitting here comfortably by the wood cookstove with my cup of coffee in hand contemplating the ease of my natural obsessions – time being one…
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HARVEY SIDING The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 My father built a woods camp at Harvey Siding back in the early 1950s on the north branch of the Meduxnekeag River in Monticello. The camp was located next to the iron…
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OUTRUNNING HEADLIGHTS The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our intuition, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our…
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AUTUMNAL EQUINOX The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else. – Diane Ackerman Pluto Diane…