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		<title>World Weary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my tech savvy wife, I now get my morning news from an electronic device. Now I can read newspapers from any point on the globe, and keep up with the latest developments everywhere. Talk about information overload! I have to limit myself to half an hour of browsing otherwise I&#8217;d be at it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Freeze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A change in weather over the weekend reminded me that it gets cold here in Vermont – wicked cold. Temps dropped below zero, and my enthusiasm for a long-awaited hike on my day off dropped with it. I awoke Monday morning to single digits. Warmer, but not warm. So I puttered about the house while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2012/01/19/deep-freeze/</link>
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		<title>The Distant Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many people, I am hypersensitive to the march of time whenever a new year begins. We switch out an old calendar for a new one, then try to get used to the novel digit. That&#8217;s &#8220;12,&#8221; not &#8220;11,&#8221; though some of us will be making this mistake well into February. The clock moves too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2012/01/10/the-distant-summit/</link>
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		<title>End Year Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that I was still tired from a tough shift at the hotel the evening before, I donned thermals and wools yesterday morning and went for a hike. Falling temps and a winter storm were in the forecast, so I figured this was my last chance to tramp around for a while. Besides, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/12/29/end-year-hike/</link>
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		<title>The Dark Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t help but think of the holiday hoopla as a distraction from the dark season. With the days brutally short, temperatures dropping and all the green gone, this is a tough time of year. So we drag evergreens into our houses, put up colorful lights, then engage in a series of elaborate rituals that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/12/20/the-dark-season/</link>
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		<title>A Mild Winter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the balmy days of autumn, I stumbled upon a dozen or so woolly worms in various places, and studied them for some sign of the coming winter. The wider the brownish-red band, the milder the season or so the saying goes. Well, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a mild one this year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/12/07/a-mild-winter/</link>
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		<title>A Place to Ponder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a great while, I go up to Aldis Hill to sit on a downed tree and just ponder matters. Usually I have a cigar in hand, which I smoke in celebration of some small accomplishment. In this case, I was celebrating the publication of the latest Wood Thrush Books anthology – no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/11/30/a-place-to-ponder/</link>
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		<title>The Wildness Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are as many different ways to experience the wild as there are people to experience it. That&#8217;s the premise behind the latest anthology that I have put together and published through my small press, Wood Thrush Books. And I&#8217;m quite pleased with this one, despite all the delays that kept it from reaching print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/11/17/the-wildness-beyond/</link>
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		<title>Pantheistic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recreation. Making good use of a precious day off from work, I head for the hills to re-create myself. It&#8217;s a cool, sunny day in late autumn and everything I need is stuffed into the small rucksack on my back. I step into the woods, following a favorite stream deep into the Green Mountains. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/11/05/pantheistic/</link>
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		<title>Hard Choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Critics here in Vermont say that the huge wind turbines atop our beloved Green Mountains are not just an eyesore, they kill birds and disrupt the forest ecology as well. Solar power is viable as long as the sun is shining, but it&#8217;s expensive, isn&#8217;t it? Biofuels threaten our food supply. Hydro power screws up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodswanderer.com/2011/10/27/hard-choices/</link>
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