Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hard Wiring of the Brain Time and again a casual conversation will steer itself toward something that happened last week, last year, or many years ago. It seems that some people can remember many details about...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Passport to Story Telling Tales of the Bengal Tiger reach back to the time when she was growing up in Cambodia and Viet Nam and continued to be written until a few days before her...
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COVID-19, or coronavirus, turned our lives upside down. A vaccine against this infectious disease has not yet been developed, and those over the age of 65 and over need special care during this pandemic. So how do we take care of our older adults? Read on to receive all your questions...
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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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We hiked Waterman Mountain some years ago and could see Winston Peak from the top, so it was well past time to bag this peak. Winston Ridge was a pleasant surprise! This was such a special hike, I would consider this one of our better peak hikes that we have done!...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sure, I’m Ignorant and Will Always Be Criticism from afar can cut just as deeply as in-your-face histrionics, complete with sputum and the bulging eyes of the critic. But being called ignorant was never a huge...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Do You See? Many chronicles of late have begun with ideas developed in dreams and later polished on paper. A few chronicles like this one begin with a picture and must be probed to reveal...
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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 Leaving An Khe The 3:10am start on this chronicle was kick-started by last night’s dream that filled in a small piece of an unsolved puzzle. But the added clarity that dreams sometime provide left open...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Tags and Related Posts If you have any interest in attracting readers to the subject matter in any of your posts, you may want to inspect and review your use of tags, as part and...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester B y Dick Pellek The A-Frame In recent years the branch of agricultural science known as agroforestry has become more popular around the world. The appeal of agroforestry is more pronounced in Third World countries where family farms and...
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In reading through letters that my wife's grandfather sent home during World War II, it was interesting to be able to look into his life and feelings during that troubled time. In a similar vane, I felt it might be of interest if I were to journal through this pandemic as we...
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In being a good steward of my family history, it is only proper that I journal during this difficult time we find ourselves in. Since we are now a few months into this pandemic, It is probably best that I summarize some of the facts, globally as well as locally, that...
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Each summer a trip my mother and her sisters looked forward to was taking the train from Roanoke to Bluefield to visit their Aunt Beulah Wagner and Uncle Dock. It was a two-day affair, as they had to take "The Motor" (local train) from Rocky Mount to Roanoke, spend the night...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Scariest Things Random thoughts of Africa came in a dream last night, so the Footloose Forester decided to stitch a few of them together in a chronicle that might be labeled The Scariest Things . First...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Parody Defense Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sophistry as a Conman’s Burglar Tool As much as I dislike lies, exaggerations, and fanciful tales that morph into urban legends, the people who use them on a regular basis and know that they work on...
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“Hey, are you home? I’m near your residence so I’ll be coming over in an hour…” These words are enough to trigger panic attacks if your room is messy and smelly. The horrific thoughts, such as “what will my guests think about me” or “will they detect my laziness,” can get...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Dr. Ben Stout Was My Kind of Guy It is true that having a receptive mood is one of the conditions that is required for the Footloose Forester to even draft a chronicle. If something inside...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just...
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