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Other People's Dreams
Submitted by John Lane on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 12:13pm. green living | kudzu telegraph | neighbors | sustainabilityIt wasn't until fifteen years ago that I had any dreams of my own about settlement. I lived in cheap rentals and was proud that I could pack everything I cared about into the back of my pickup truck. Every summer I did just that and went on the road. Mostly I ended up "out west" where the rivers were wild and my writer friends took me in as a wandering poet.
Abiding Image
Submitted by John Lane on Fri, 10/19/2007 - 10:52am. kudzu telegraph | nature writing | neighbors | wildlifeIt's seven in the morning. Coffee steams from my cup and I've been up for nearly an hour. I've already been out with the dog. It's cool today, a good break from all the unseasonably warm weather we've had. The drought has lifted for a little while. My rain gauge, unemptied, still tells me last week we had over an inch and a half of rain here east of Spartanburg. It's felt like the South again for a few days-moist and verdant. Now autumn has suddenly arrived, and the dry weather will likely return if the patterns hold true. The sourwood trees are turning that burnt red that for me signals fall. Winter is only 12 weeks away.
