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  • The Sanna’s Post catastrophe
    On March 31, 1900, Christiaan De Wet inflicted a humiliating defeat on Robert George Broadwood.  The whole thing was made possible by the shape of watercourses on the veld: angular incisions, like miniature canyons, carved out by violent summer rains. Broadwood’s column formed  part of the army of Lord Roberts, which was advancing across the Orange [.. […]
  • Hickory Knob
    This was a short snowshoe outing in Pisgah National Forest.  It had the advantage that the trailhead is not far up Hwy. 276, close to the ranger station.  The road today was still in pretty bad shape after the weekend’s snowstorm, and I scraped bottom a few times on the snow hump in the middle. From [...]
  • “The odors of blossoms and aromatic wood”
    Joseph Conrad’s tale “Youth” is about the intersection of two forces: the mesmerizing power of the East and the careless strength that comes from being young.  A power multiplied by a strength.  That creates the kind of intensity that you never forget, that might possibly haunt you for the rest of your life. After an [...]