Having a Place

I came across this essay while pulling a manuscript together. It was written in the spring of 2009. I’ve left Flagstaff and come back twice since then. I love this place – and since I ride my bicycle almost everywhere I go, my relationship to Flagstaff has changed from when I drove everywhere. I’ve slowed […]

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Bill Plotkin tonight

Went to Northern Arizona University to check out a talk by Bill Plotkin. He wrote Soulcraft and Nature and the Human Soul (which is an excellent book) and is the founder of the Animus Valley Institute. He began the talk by saying, “I am a cultural change agent, a nature-based underworld guide.” And he wasn’t […]

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