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CrowsCry Press: Stretching Rainflies in a Storm

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Monday, July 10, 2006. Stretching Rainflies in a Storm. We spend a great deal of money and energy to avoid our elemental state, find myriad ways to distract ourselves. One of the things we had to confront as teachers was the fact that many of our students came from very wealthy families where they could normally purchase any level of distraction they wanted. Why learn to properly pitch a tent in a storm when one can book an expensive room, even buy the hotel?

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CrowsCry Press: Synchronicity and Grace

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Thursday, July 20, 2006. I met a ghost a few days ago, touched hands and minds with one of the most influential men in my life. He’s been dead for twelve years. When I went to see Blakemore days later, he again listened with a smiling face as I recounted my story of the encounter with Johnson. I knew something would happen, he said, and then laughed deeply. Posted by CrowsCry @ 1:48 PM. Comments: Post a Comment. Santa Barbara, CA. Author of the book The Great Western D...

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Nature, Craft, & Soul: October 2011

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Nature, Craft, and Soul. Thursday, October 20, 2011. The difference between a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul. About 20 years ago I met two old men who profoundly impacted my life. One of the men died within a few years and left a great hole in my life. The other man is still alive, though quite elderly. He lives a distance away and there are times when I wish we could just sit and talk about what it means to live a full human life. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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CrowsCry Press: 09/07/05

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Wednesday, September 07, 2005. The Dusty Feather of Flight. Great red rocks tower over the Santa Ynez. And the ancient spirits of time and place seem. As real as the stone. Young people come here restless to party and drink,. Then climb the red towers and. Throw themselves down to the river,. Barely missing the rocks. Some do not miss. A few hundred feet away we walk the dirt road. Lined with sedimentary rock and white sage,. And by the road. I kneel, turn it over,.

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CrowsCry Press: 09/12/05

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Monday, September 12, 2005. I come from a family with deep roots in the landscape of the Sierra Nevada and the central San Joaquin Valley. The roots are so deep that it shapes the landscape of my mind. My great-great grandfather settled in the 1850s in this region below what was to become Sequoia National Park. In May I returned to present my book to the. Posted by CrowsCry @ 11:34 AM 0 comments. Santa Barbara, CA. View my complete profile. The Great Western Divide.

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CrowsCry Press: 09/21/05

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Wednesday, September 21, 2005. The Crow's Cry People. While sitting here at the window looking into the front yard I can here strange sounds, parrot-like sounds that are almost speech. It's not a parrot though, it's just a crow muttering, clicking, laughing coarsely. When I went into the county clerk to get the CrowsCry name approved for my usage, the lady told me that she could barely type the name as it was like fingernails on a chalkboard. The word for cry was weah,.

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CrowsCry Press: The New Doors of Perception

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Tuesday, February 28, 2006. The New Doors of Perception. If the doors to perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. With the above quote Aldous Huxley began his book The Doors of Perception. The book was nominally about his experiences taking mescaline in the early 1950’s, but it was more a critical examination of the processes by which we apprehend reality and an examination of the nature of spiritual experience. Did you know him?

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CrowsCry Press: 09/11/05

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Sunday, September 11, 2005. Posted by CrowsCry @ 11:06 AM 0 comments. Santa Barbara, CA. Author of the book The Great Western Divide and former middle school teacher. In addition to teaching academics taught outdoor skills that included mountain biking, backpacking and cross-country skiing. Also a master finish carpenter and cabinetmaker as well as a blackbelt in Aikido. View my complete profile. The Great Western Divide.

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CrowsCry Press: Zeus and the Practice of Loss

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A Voice for the Unseen and Unheard. Thursday, July 27, 2006. Zeus and the Practice of Loss. Last week my wife came up to me after she arrived home from work. Zeus has left us. Every death has been met with its own grief, an ongoing practice of loss. Loss is a difficult thing to understand, especially for a child. Ching Man Ching in his treatise on T'ai Chi Chuan counsels, "Learn to invest in loss. Who is willing to do this? Posted by CrowsCry @ 12:49 PM. Santa Barbara, CA. View my complete profile.