Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Horrors of War Many military men and women who return from war are reluctant to talk about it but there have been enough stories and brief flashes of graphic descriptions that have leaked out or escaped...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Circuit Rider The flashes of memory that have heretofore been confined to the Chronicles of a Footloose Forester are getting pretty hard to handle as potentially interesting stories. This one is quite tentative...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Back to Tan Son Nhut, in a Dream Another dream, another chronicle eeked out about those unforgettable years during the Viet Nam War. The ten days that Footloose Forester spent sleeping under his desk at Tan Son...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek We Have Flea Markets, Viet Nam Had Black Markets Sometimes when we are looking for something we might like to have in our homes or workshop, we venture out to the flea market to see what they...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester B y Dick Pellek Pozzolana Essays of the dream-induced variety are the hardest to compose, perhaps why the hours of fitful sleep are so often interjected with bits of reverie. Call them scraps, figments, bits, or vague ideas but there...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Cortana and Artificial Intelligence Corresponding with others through computer-based social media should be easier these days, thanks to artificial intelligence aids like text and voice personal digital assistants named Siri [Apple], Alexa [Amazon], and Cortana [Microsoft]. Ask them...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Charlie Was Hit With Machine Gun Fire Charlie was happy to show you his busted arm and the .50 caliber slug from that machine gun that left him with a permanent scar. He was also happy...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Self-effacement Isn’t Weakness (For a kid who thinks he can) If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Agent Orange Returns The haunting memories of the Viet Nam War come back in short flashes on some days and in long dreams on some nights. Many mysteries abound about how and why some things came...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hawaiian Talk Story When a Quora .com question presumably submitted by a grammar school student was posed about how we could determine the texture of a soil, the Footloose Forester decided to answer the question with a little...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek He Was Not Forgotten As the guest speaker at church was announcing the upcoming hunting event sponsored for wounded veterans, she described one or two of them who had lost limbs during military service, yet found a way...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Java “If you ever go across the sea to Ireland,” the plaintive words of an old but enchanting melody begin. The haunting Irish melody forms your thoughts into dreams...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Environmental Disasters For much of the last 30 years, the issue of the environment has become a political football, with political parties lining up on opposite sides of that football. That...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rain Shadows and Rainforests On the one hand, you have those who believe in global warming; and on the other side of the divide are those who are currently labeled as climate...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Are You Bragging Or Complaining? This chronicle is for you, Red Lee. You are in the center of that mental photograph that flashes in my mind, since that day in early autumn of 1955 when you responded...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Few Anecdotes About Fruits We don’t give much thought to a comment by someone about having sliced banana in their morning cereal or crushed pineapple on last night’s baked ham. Or the fresh papaya that we...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mantras That Endure Of the many would-be chronicles that have struggled toward a birth on paper, this one about spiritual attachment to mantras, has kicked and squirmed its way, finally, to a nascent birth. The personal mantras of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Calling B.S. On …. The time has come to call B.S. on TV advertisements that use hard-sell promotional tactics to convince us that this ____ is the best ____ you will ever buy, or your money back. Or,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Single Tree Selection Becomes High-Grading With all the talk about deforestation and the evils of cutting down trees, people everywhere should remember that humans have been cutting down trees ever since they invented the tools to...
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