On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Memory Lapses and Voids Everybody has some degree of short-term memory loss, and everybody has some degree of long-term memory loss. We wonder why we forget some things and worry a bit...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Being An Observer Every once in a while, the Footloose Forester (and everybody else) shows disappointment that something important that should have been recognized was not, something that should have been...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Lone Wolf (As Leader – As Follower) Everyone knows a lone wolf but not everyone is a lone wolf. The lone wolf may get the reputation as an innovator, which might be a compliment, or as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek It’s Raining in the Teak The combination and progression of adventures that led to dreams that led to stories that sometimes led to essays is the present impetus to now tell a tale...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Everyday Science and Math, for a Forester High school math and science courses are required for admission into forestry schools around the country. At some stage of their careers, most field foresters will have in their...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek As I Lie Awake and Listen Melancholia pervades a certain genre of music and people who suddenly become vulnerable to melancholia find a certain solace in the words and music of melancholic songs. Singing...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Coffee Plants, Coffee Cherries, Coffee Berries, Coffee Beans, Coffee Makers, and Coffee Cups The whole world knows something about coffee. Many millions of people drink it every day. A few million are involved in growing it, hundreds...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Underwater The very modern and accurate mapping capabilities found in Google Earth are a joy to manipulate and to have at the ready, anytime the Footloose Forester wants to check out the status of before-after photos...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Drinkin’ an’ Drivin’ The large refrigerator magnet sent to the Footloose Forester by a female friend (the Best Friend of the deceased Bengal Tiger) was definitely one kitchen item trying to make a point. ...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courier Another dream-inspired chronicle, but hey! Whatever works. Truth be told, the seeds of many chronicles germinated during dreams but the pre-writing phase was usually shortly after waking, and the first draft started...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Practicing Living The tenderfoot practicing life, who also calls himself the Footloose Forester , had another dream last night and decided that he would share the fragments of his innermost thoughts as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Am I? The main thought running through his head in another of those disjointed dreams was, “where am I?” A sunny scene flashed by, a few loaded words, another scene in a plain,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gold is Buried at … His dying words were numbers that I cannot remember but as he feebly put the hand-written scrap of paper into my hand, I knew that the long string of...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Better Bagel and Brand Loyalty We all have our favorite foods. But we don’t all agree on what those dishes or recipes are, thus the eternal discussions about foods and one of the...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Stories, Blogs, Essays, and Peer Review The recent decision of Facebook to encourage account holders to contribute text and photo stories in a special window of their website is an invitation to greater sharing of...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Again For many adults, the Boy Scouts and the adventurous times in Boy Scouts was an enlightening, formative period in our lives. It was also a time of informal education that had...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Flashes of Memory One unplanned adventure was so short-lived that the bits and pieces of the story framework were so scattered throughout his latest dream that they had to be assembled during consciousness to be cogent. The...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bridge, Not Too Far For a number of years, the Footloose Forester had wanted to write a chronicle about the missionaries he has known. There were plenty of them, spread out across the globe. Any such chronicle...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Accidental Rock Hound Another dream, another chronicle about those bits and pieces of reverie that bob up and down in the soup of memories. The first ingredient in the soup of last night’s dream...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Inspiration Looking back over the years and wondering why certain pronouncements by prominent people that were published for all of us to read were featured in the first place, the introspective Footloose Forester saw a pattern. ...
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