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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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The K-Turn and Mountain Roads Our family has a long tradition of learning how to drive from other family members and we all recall episodes of the lessons. The Footloose Forester takes pride in teaching things, and...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Professional Forest Management Integrating soil/site aspects in planting strategy This essay/story evolves from a critique about a real-time, first-rate example of forest management and real-time planning of forest plantations in Ireland. Thanks to the Irish Forestry...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Holiday at Cam Ranh Bay It wasn’t often that the Footloose Forester chose to pick up his suitcase and walk from the air terminal to his destination, especially when he was in Viet Nam during the height...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Cheetah at the Waterhole As time passes, so also do some of the details of even favorite adventures. The great fun trip to the Laikipia Plateau of Kenya in 1991 was one of them, and last...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Fear An innocent Internet meme about fear was the first disturbance that summoned the specter of fear to return, to creep closer. The second incident was a horrific movie about World War II, the very same day...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Planting by the Numbers Most adults have planted a tree or two and gained satisfaction from having done so. Perhaps they also mused about how tall it would become and if the fruit would ripen for them...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Closer Look at a Picture Worth a Thousand Words Flamengos Tree Nursery, Cape Verde Some people are proud of their humble beginnings. Others are impatient to move on and forget about the past. It was many...
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