Status Updates From Listening Point

Shoutout to the Pileated woodpecker that used to be in my woods before my neighbors took out all of their dead trees.

Lots of interesting geological history!

A wee bit waxing poetic. Good still.

Too much bashing of the broad winged hawk for my tastes.

Only through my own personal contact with civilization had I learned to value the advantages of solitude.

Man’s history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit.

A stirring opening that calls me to recount my experiences on a listening point of my own, as it blends into Olsen’s own depiction. Remarks on the majesty of the Canadian Shield.