Hello to any who might look before I am gone. I have returned, finally, after almost a year of travels all over the place to my tiny cabin tucked so far away from the rest of the world. It is amazing to be back in this wild valley where bears out number humans two to one. After seeing how it is in the far away...
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Hello from the dusty realm of sandstone and snakes, the Desert Southwest. I wonder how many of you out there will read this entry as it has been forever since I last posted and many of you may think that I have dropped off the face of the earth. And in a sense it is true; I have fled the world of SG for quite...
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xmt:
i'm really sorry to hear about your friends, but you're right about living life as you want to live.
glad to hear you're well and happy friend.
glad to hear you're well and happy friend.
sixtyfootqueenie:
BEAUTIFUL!!! I AM BACK!!
I just sent you an email..... reply reply reply!
I just sent you an email..... reply reply reply!
Nearly three weeks since I last posted! In recent days other things have taken precedencewar, growth, and spring. While there is still two feet of snow on the ground in this part of the valley the change is happening. Everyday a new bird begins advertising his presence through song (varied thrush, golden crowned kinglet, and this morning the first song sparrow of the season). And...
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the_bear:
Hi, how did you get into working with bears? I've just finished a marine biology degree but I'm trying to aim in that direction, except my life is on hold while I save up money to get where I need to be. God I'm jealous of you.
xmt:
alright man. where are you? i heard this story about some folks getting eaten by bears in alaska a few weeks ago, and i have to say i'm a bit concerned. 
The Equinox
Sking through slush on the river flats the electricity hangs thickyou could hear it in the song of chickadees and feel it in the intensity of light. Within cottonwood buds the smell of that familiar resin, bubbling in preparation for rebirth. In this place where natural rhythms will not be ignored, every change is palpableeach season demarcated by a seemingly abrupt and potent...
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Sking through slush on the river flats the electricity hangs thickyou could hear it in the song of chickadees and feel it in the intensity of light. Within cottonwood buds the smell of that familiar resin, bubbling in preparation for rebirth. In this place where natural rhythms will not be ignored, every change is palpableeach season demarcated by a seemingly abrupt and potent...
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april1:
Ah April has arrived and Austin, TX is glowing.
throatneedle:
El Diablo es mi amigo!
You should go out and buy the Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too DVD
You should go out and buy the Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too DVD
Today I drove the 60 miles to fill the truck's tank and it feels so gross to be in this skin.
Long ago I cast aside guilt yet, oddly, this evening it has returned.
While I peck on the porn site brown skins are bombed.
Shock and Awe.
Running, but not far enough.
Long ago I cast aside guilt yet, oddly, this evening it has returned.
While I peck on the porn site brown skins are bombed.
Shock and Awe.
Running, but not far enough.
60ftqueenie:
Ive missed you beautiful
60ftqueenie:
heh that why I love the word 
I met her at the food coop. I was fresh from the industrial cauldron of Detroit and in my first year of studies into terrestrial plant ecology. She was tall, dark and handsome, wearing a pair of clunky hiking boots, green fatigues, and ocelot patterned hair cropped close. In the instant her ice colored eyes fell upon me my plans shiftedsoon my studies faltered, my...
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illbillzillbub:
I was thinking about buying myself a new copy of "Stateless" the other day.I only ever had a casette and that got crunched and stretched many a moon ago.
"Intimacy"
thats fantastic
"Intimacy"
thats fantastic
cozybear:
We were thinking of going to shambala this year but Iain has to take 2 weeks off at the end of august, so we're going to go on a climbing trip maybe ending at burningman if we've got the money.
Darkness has descended upon my neighborhood of Sitka spruce and black cottonwood as I peck out these words on the computer terminal. The Cramps blare from the compact disk player positioned in the corner of the cabin. Somehow it seems odd to be here, in the midst of what would otherwise be ultimate quiet, listening to I want some new kind of kick.
I remember...
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aoife:
the Cramps....
so I think once you finish your female-vocalist radio show, you should instigate one for all the bands with females who don't sing. and the star performer should be Poison Ivy...
so I think once you finish your female-vocalist radio show, you should instigate one for all the bands with females who don't sing. and the star performer should be Poison Ivy...
60ftqueenie:
yeah just applied to see if they'll take me... and if they do... hmm will think sersiously about doing a set... at the end of the day I can just show my boobs..so whats that really nothing..... and with the set I want to do... well I cant pass up the opportunity!
Cold in this cabin! I have been away for several days so the temperature inside reads 22 degrees. Within an hour, however, the woodstove will heat this place to a sweltering 80 degrees and I will then begin my system of sophisticated heat regulation by opening the windows, dampening the fire, and shutting down the flue. Definitely not as easy as turning the dial on...
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xmt:
just letting you know i haven't forgotten about you. been too busy to finish the comp and i don't want to send it half assed. soon though...
verifythis:
Sometimes I want to run away and play in the woods. I wonder how I would do. I WAS a Girl Scout. Hehe. 
Sounds like you are living the REAL American dream (in my opinion)...living the life that makes YOU happy.
xo sarah
Sounds like you are living the REAL American dream (in my opinion)...living the life that makes YOU happy.
xo sarah
I have been absent. No new journal entry for a week and only a handful of posts. This community is easy to become enveloped in. As O said, so many voices...so many participants worth knowing. And while this is the first time I have ever paid to participate in such a network, this thing is undeniably unique. So much so, in fact, that there are...
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bettietwoguns:
thanks, but . . . i really don't think i'll ever submit a set. nope. 
verifythis:
That sounds like such a fun adventure. I will be adventuring to Philly tonight to play with SGers. Lots of snow shoveling has been the closest I have gotten to actually being in the great outdoors lately. And I went on a 3 hour walk in the city with a friend late at night. It is weird to see your city COVERED in snow. We are going to be SWIMMING when it melts!
xo sarah
xo sarah
Questions:
Have you ever been so in love that nothing seemed as important as this single attraction? Have you ever fallen so hard that even if you tried, you couldn't help but give yourself up to full immersion? Have you ever been so engaged that all you wanted was to know more?
A friend recently asked me why I did it--why I felt the need...
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Have you ever been so in love that nothing seemed as important as this single attraction? Have you ever fallen so hard that even if you tried, you couldn't help but give yourself up to full immersion? Have you ever been so engaged that all you wanted was to know more?
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miasma:
I just read your reply... sorry I didn't check this website for such a long time!
I did not necessarily bail from AK by choice. I was ten and my dad's company moved him. I had no concept of what it meant to move away, and he actually asked me and my brother our opinion. We thought it sounded like fun. In retrospect, we had no idea how great our lives were in AK.
The older I get, the less I miss AK but now, after reading this entry, I remember why I loved it so.
I did not necessarily bail from AK by choice. I was ten and my dad's company moved him. I had no concept of what it meant to move away, and he actually asked me and my brother our opinion. We thought it sounded like fun. In retrospect, we had no idea how great our lives were in AK.
The older I get, the less I miss AK but now, after reading this entry, I remember why I loved it so.
throatneedle:
I'm gonna make everyone I care about on my friends' list a CD
Then we can trade! Bathory me mate!
JESUS SAVES! *horse buckling tremolo guitar solo*
Then we can trade! Bathory me mate!
JESUS SAVES! *horse buckling tremolo guitar solo*
It's fucking true! Though my friends have said it for years I have denied the obvious. Yet, at some point in one's pitiful life they must face the fact of who they really are. This understanding has come slowly but finally I am realizing that I am a BIG TEASE. Plain and simple.
Since I have been back in these northern wilds I have had...
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60ftqueenie:
yeah no that doesnt include tips.. all tips are ours to keep... well I dont mind paying 50% because all of our equipment is quite expensive and it would cost a fortune to set up privately.. and they advertise and pay a receptionist and all that shit so you do get alot for your 50% ...
emily:
I never get good feelings...just bad ones..
Battery Point
On the coast gale force winds blow and the ocean is a tumultuous mass of pulsating blue. At -30 degrees, the spray from crashing waves freezes in mid air and sounds like a battery of stones cast against the shore. No one is on the water today; no one save for the gulls gliding low above the cold surf. On my way to...
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On the coast gale force winds blow and the ocean is a tumultuous mass of pulsating blue. At -30 degrees, the spray from crashing waves freezes in mid air and sounds like a battery of stones cast against the shore. No one is on the water today; no one save for the gulls gliding low above the cold surf. On my way to...
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nala:
yeah its for real, members are welcome to submit also
emily:
hey i live in alaska...
i'm trying to coordinate the trip around some of the maya ruins, esp. palenque, but am a little unsure of how to travel through oaxaca and chiapas.
my spanish isn't good enough to talk my way out of some potential situations there.
I've sent you a few emails... have you gotten them?
thekidsinthehall@hotmail.com
xxxxxx carla