“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
For the audio version click here: ninemilewolves51 I have been reading about wolves since returning from Yellowstone. I wanted to share these few paragraphs from Bass’s wonderful book: “Wolves are so full of passion that they can barely stand it. That same summer that the widowed Ninemile male was dragging fawns back to his family’s den, a wolf pack up in Alaska hunted down four grizzlies — a mother and three […]
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For audio version click here: pompeyspillar50 A day and a half before we flew home, in a restaurant a few feet away from the river bank that dropped down to the Yellowstone in Gardiner, six of us sat at the table drinking beer and eating beef, telling stories and laughing — a couple from Maine who had backpacked in Iran and Iraq and ridden on horseback on wooden saddles across Afghanistan […]
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For audio version click here At the Hell Roaring Creek overlook, just before first light, 10 of us are standing in the darkness listening for the howls of wolves. We are emptying ourselves so as to only listen and look. We are trying to quiet our minds. The sky begins to show red and pink indentations in clouds. Brad is watching for ravens, “little scouts, hoping for something to die”.* Some of us see ourselves […]
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For audio version click here: bearsandwolves48 Mike, the T-Rex, at the entrance to the Museum of the Rockies Ten of us saw the first grizzly walking the bed of the Lamar River. He came to the sharp cut of the bank, and looking like a big boy climbing into a kitchen chair, he placed both front paws on the edge, hitched up his right leg to the top, leapt up with […]
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