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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On the road, again!!! 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...
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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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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bucket Lists Oftentimes it takes a trigger for us to reflect on our own views, opinions, and actions. Forming those views and opinions are the raw ingredients leading to intended actions. Mostly we keep views to...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Yesterday the Subject was Tigers We three neighbors sat down yesterday in social distancing, of course, when the subject of tigers came up. It is a favorite topic of the Footloose Forester who...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ghost Towns Part of the allure of being On the road…again!!! in so many rural places was the anticipation of knowing that there were going to be a few ghost towns here and there. Most of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Bug Zapper Not many people who lived in the valley where the Saó Jorge dos Orgaós research station was located had electric power. In fact, it would be accurate to say that the only people...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bengal Tiger - Dive Buddy The legacy of the Bengal Tiger, that fearless lady who put up her dukes to stare down a surly marine in Senegal and a coterie of young thieves in Madagascar who thought...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Gerunds Headlining the News What do the words Reducing , Deterring , and Obstructing have in common? All of them are gerunds, all of them are words suggesting restriction, and all of them are the leading words used...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hard Wiring of the Brain Time and again a casual conversation will steer itself toward something that happened last week, last year, or many years ago. It seems that some people can remember many details about...
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