On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Copied and Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have nothing...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Before I Was Born As much as the Footloose Forester tried to avoid nostalgia in his Chronicles of a Footloose Forester , there are certain images that contain so much personal meaning that it...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The A.I. Cousins Named Siri, Alexis, Cortana (deceased), Copilot, et.al. Artificial Intelligence is not exactly new in computer technology, but it seems that its applications are multiplying faster than most of us realize. ...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Generosity of Poor Farmers Mental images of generous people often appear in the dreams of the Footloose Forester . As it happens, they were all poor farmers...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Gaslighting, Sophistry, and Transference The season of political shenanigans is getting into full swing. As if we haven’t already become numb with the rhetoric going back and forth, the major political parties are...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Troy, You Outlive Your Literary Demise Harking back to college days and the tiny speaking role in a play took on an extra burden for this dream-inspired chronicle. It might not have emerged if the Footloose...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bird Watching Fail A story without a purpose, a story without a photo, a story devoid of observations—is not much of a story at all. If the readers of these Chronicles of a Footloose Forester...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures in Surveying Another dream, another chronicle about disparate events in the past that somehow got stitched together in the dream itself. This chronicle combines a bit of forestry field work, a bit of practical applications...
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We left Southern California. I believe, in the car, was my father, my mother, my uncle, Larry, myself. It might have been another brother or sister. Anyway, the car was full. We had everything in the trunk, as well. And, the funeral was going to be in Roosevelt, Utah, where he...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Testing Mental Acuity FreeCell solitaire Game #48995 played and won in 2:04 minutes and 84 moves sets a high bar for recognizing and executing the moves it takes to win. The Footloose Forester...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos and Fake News Get Married Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have...
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A Vision From Heaven *** No Body, No Wings The Vision Couldn’t Be Seen by Eye But Through My Humbled Mind A Beautiful Spirit of Color That Floated Tirelessly, From Here to There From its Bottom, Stars Sparkled And Bright Lights Shone Through ...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hectarage The stimulus to attempt another chronicle of the Essays variety owes its impetus to both a previous posting on social media and to a dream about that posting. Hectarage , as the purported...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Don’t Confuse Me With Facts…My Mind Is Made Up Very often the stimulus to pen a chronicle is based on a recent event that opened up old wounds. The most recent stimulus had...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Why Are The Birds Sending Me Signs? They swoop in when they decide to congregate, they pick at their feasts in front of your eyes, and they stay until their leaders tell them to...
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I saw this hike in the L.A. Times and wanted to go, so Omid and I planned a day to get down there. The hike was pretty easy but for the big stones on the beach, but we had a great day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Dominator That is our trail right over there. We...
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After hiking to Mount Baden Powell, we saw that the parking lot was shared by this hike. So we planned to come back and hike down instead of up. This was a rather short but exciting hike. Someone broke out one of the bars at the entrance of the mine and...
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