Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine Those halcyon days working as a consultant forester in California in the 1960s salted the memory banks of the Footloose Forester with many, many fond reveries of adventures. Some jobs were...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Geographic Coordinates with Pictures to Match If you drop in at digital coordinates 44.293805, -105.526084 this summer, you will enjoy the time and leave with a few pleasant memories. And maybe a full tummy. ...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Being An Observer Every once in a while, the Footloose Forester (and everybody else) shows disappointment that something important that should have been recognized was not, something that should have been...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek It’s Raining in the Teak The combination and progression of adventures that led to dreams that led to stories that sometimes led to essays is the present impetus to now tell a tale...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courier Another dream-inspired chronicle, but hey! Whatever works. Truth be told, the seeds of many chronicles germinated during dreams but the pre-writing phase was usually shortly after waking, and the first draft started...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Lumper and the Splitter Meet Again The Footloose Forester has been a life-long splitter: dividing seemingly simple observations into more refined, detailed considerations into the possibilities about the presumed complexity of those observations. A photograph of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Shake the Mango Tree, the Cherry Tree, and the Apple Trees Many chronicles of late have been enticed and extracted from dreams and polished up on paper before deciding where the latest one belongs: in...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Bend The Fig Tree The Bengal Tiger first coined the words to the love sonnet “let’s go shake the mango tree” when we lived in Hawaii in the 1970s. She sang that sweet...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hacking the Russian Environmental Report Once in a while when a suspect news report gets aired with a misleading spin, the Footloose Forester goes into one of his petulant moods and yearns to compose a...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Goes Around Came Around, Again The passing phases of our lives are marked by words and phrases that come into vogue out of the blue, are repeated often by trendsetters and hipsters, and eventually disappear...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Shake The Apple Tree The Bengal Tiger was already in the branches of the Pennsylvania apple tree in the autumn of 2015 when she connected with the expression she had used...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Seagulls And The Clams Our friend Thanh Mahoney related an amusing story to us about one of those “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” events that might have seemed bizarre when it...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek It Pays To Read Labels Advertisers have been doing it for decades. Putting nutritional information on milk cartons and cereal boxes, assembly instructions on the back of pre-fabricated office furniture pieces, and...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Some Things You Can Make Up People get bored quite easily. To counter that, many a youngster with an active mind tries to attract attention with their own personality traits that shout out, “I’m...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Detecting The Vile In Greenbackville No, this chronicle is not an exposé about sinister happenings perpetrated by vile residents in the sleepy little fishing village of Greenbackville, Virginia. Our fair hamlet of a mere 192...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Chickadees and Squirrels Compete People who read some of the other chronicles of the Footloose Forester probably wonder if everything that is written is really true. Yes, all the stories are true, although...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek And Now On Stage …In Order Of Appearance Let me introduce the actors, as they appear on stage. From somewhere beyond the green curtain of shrubbery comes a red-headed woodpecker. He appears stage left where...
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On the road…. again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Reading The Fine Print We all know that there is going to be fine print in contracts and agreements. For the most part, the fine print protects the other party from unnecessary lawsuits, in...
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On the road…again…! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek France Revisited Footloose Forester wrote briefly in his Chronicles of a Footloose Forester about the Comoros Islands, Cambodia and France; but also about how the people and events in those three countries were blended...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Goes Around Comes Around The first time that the Footloose Forester ever set eyes upon a Zyzyphus jujuba tree was in a desert region in Sind Province, Pakistan. Travelers in the desert...
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