trail notes, mmxvii-x-v

snippets, 10-5-2017

Drawing dogs in George Booth's living room (Paris Review).

horse notes, mmxvii-x-iv

an hour with Hot Shot and Lady

the guinea is sitting on a clutch of eggs in a patch of buffalo gourd vines

snippets, 10-3-2017

The dogs of the Vietnam War (NY Times). "...although it appeared that the dogs were being instructed, it was the soldiers who were actually being taught...Our training instructors seemed to take a perverse pleasure in informing us how dumb we were compared with the dogs."

snippets, 10-2-2017

Tom Petty rushed to hospital in cardiac arrest (People). Just yesterday while I was out with Ondine somebody was playing the live version of "Free Fallin'" LOUD and I was loving it. I'm gonna go listen to "Room at the Top" now. Dang it.

trail notes, mmxvii-x-i

lesson notes, mmxvii-ix-xxx

Howsoever, he found the gate whereby they had entered yesterday, and he went out into the little dale; but when he had gone a step or two he turned about, and could see neither garden nor fence, nor any sign of what he had seen thereof but lately.

- William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, 1894

snippets, 9-29-2017

Six reasons dance training makes us better human beings (Dance Magazine, h/t dangerousmeta). "...in academic schooling not moving up to the next grade every year is seen as a failure but in the arts, it is normal to stay in a level for multiple years..." (Illuminating - reminds me of Ray Hunt's Square One.)

park notes, mmxvii-ix-xxviii

snippets, 9-28-2017

Stray dogs started turning blue (NY Times). "Mumbai turns out to be a pretty good place to be a dog."

Kenya moves to curb the rise of rabies (The Guardian).

snippets, 9-27-2017

Rice art (Colossal).  Land o' goshen.

banned books week, 9/24 -9/30/17