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Poem – Revolution Rooted in Ancient Lands
40 Days become 40 years and the revolution/transformation I began culminates from the mountain peak. Into the valley life flows as the new sun rises over the range. Caribou continue their thousand mile trek across vast swaths of land following their ancestors hoofs. I teeter on this ridge and see beyond the glacier fed waters…
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Poetry – Sun Rises
Sun rises over mountain peaks after 40 days of darkness and despair. We sing, dance, and cry while the mountains darkness subsides and the peak, birthplace of our gods, appears.
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Ice Child, by John Haines
Cold for so long, unable to speak, yet your mouth seems framed on a cry, or a stifled question. Who placed you here, and left you to this lonely eternity of ash and ice, and himself returned to the dust fields, the church and the temple? Was it God—the sun-god of the Incas, the imperial…
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Poem – What is Meant to Be
The day’s chaos subsides as the wind carries my worries away and the trees wrap their limbs around me, I close my eyes and the mountains appear. The day’s battle and the outcome set I relinquish the inner turmoil to the stars as I cross tundra and rivers setting up camp at the foot of…
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Poem – Winter into Spring
As winter becomes spring and ponds become home to wildlife and the ground reaches for the sky, thoughts turn to distant lands north of the arctic circle surrounded by mountains and tundra home to herds of caribou and the midnight sun above snow-capped peaks.
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Environment: Standing up for the Arctic Refuge
http://www.alaskawild.org/places-we-protect/arctic-refuge/ http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/ccp_thanks/
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Arctic Wild
For my next trip to Alaska I will be going through Arctic Wild which is based out of Fairbanks. They recently revamped their website with more information and photos. Please visit and take a look – http://arcticwild.com
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All About Alaska
Sharing a few of my favorite Alaska websites and causes. Alaska Wild Alaska Geographic Raven’s Brew – Coffee Alaskan Brewing Company – Beer
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Return to the Wild
On November 25th 2014, PBS aired a documentary about Christopher McCandless titled “Return to the Wild”. It touches on more of the background and childhood of Chris and provides a great introduction to the book by his sister Carine McCandless “The Wild Truth”. Documentary “Return to the Wild“ Memoir “The Wild Truth“
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Into the Wild related websites
The following are websites of people and entities related to Christopher McCandless and “Into the Wild”. http://www.carinemccandless.com http://www.intothewild.com http://www.rhspeakers.com http://www.stampedetrail.info http://www.christophermccandless.info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer