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Road trip revelations big and small
included some arresting sights, such as the Wisconsin highway barn painted in mile-high letters by people who obviously wanted to get their message across. These guys should work on Madison Avenue. OKAY, WE HEAR YOU! A flock of blue jays, one of which left a memento behind for someone (me) desiring signs and best wishes for…
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Does it make you think of your own mortality?
asked my brother as we scaled Pinnacle Peak in the late afternoon, among throngs of pleasure-hikers and trail-runners who didn’t seem to have a care about possibly spraining their ankles in the grit. He didn’t mean the cactus, which had an interesting appearance. Some of the saguaros appeared charred, girdled, as if they had been…
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A true Amazonia
Matriarchies are a thing of the past. Not. A photographer with a wonderful eye travelled to the remote Estonian islands of Kihru and Manja in the Baltic Sea, where she spent time with a community of women, who collectively kept things together while their men went to fish. All elderly, all strong, they inhabited a…