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	<title>The Mossy Skull</title>
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	<description>Ramblings of Michael J. DeLuca</description>
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		<title>Tales from Topographic Oceans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only tenuously related to the Yes album of the same name, widely considered the most navel-gazingly pretentious prog rock album ever recorded. (No, I will not attempt to relate the Shastric scriptures to Mayan prophecy. Maybe another time.) The Roger Dean cover, however, is awesome: See the Castillo over there on the horizon above the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marchflowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re like March Hares, you know. Rue Anemone, Thalictrum Thalictroides, moist oak ridge, Ortonville, MI Some variety of flowering sedge I am unlikely to ever identify. Sandy trailside, mixed deciduous woods, Ortonville, MI Donwy Serviceberry, Amelanchier arborea, mixed deciduous woods, Ortonville, MI American Fly Honeysuckle, Lonicera canadensis, oak and pine ridge, Ortonville, MI After all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sympathy for the Lorax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I went to see this indie documentary, Kalamazoo River: Us, which tells the history of that river&#8217;s pollution since the frontier era and the efforts of activists to get it cleaned up. It&#8217;s a bizarre film, full of hilarity and musical numbers. The director, Matt Dunstone, was on hand to answer questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monastery in the Woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dreamed again of the ruinous Buddhist/Benedictine/Mayan monastery in the nonexistent rocky wilderness off High Street in Westwood. It&#8217;s been a long time. Awed visitors meandering through hilltop temples and colonnaded passages came upon apocryphal relics of their own past, worn objects invested with vast emotional weight from childhoods half remembered but never lived. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff, Inkwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no use for a hiking staff in the flatlands except for playing wizard. I don&#8217;t play wizard anymore. Now all the muscles in my forearms and triceps are sore from forgetting how to prevent a fall. Satan&#8217;s Kingdom (recently rechristened &#8220;Sen Ki&#8221;, I wonder why), Westwood, MA A riddle: Why does one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Herbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Princess Pine, Lycopodium obscurum, so called because it looks like a tiny girl-sized version of King Pine aka Eastern White Pine, so called because its trunk is tall, straight, lightweight, full of pitch, and in the colonial era the king declared they had all been grown by God exclusively as masts for the royal navy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Took It All for Granted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Months ago I moved to the flatlands. You didn&#8217;t hear about it here cause nothing I wrote about it was fit to print. Recently I took a three-week hiatus back to Western Mass. I walked every day on trails I never knew existed, under (and up) hemlocks and pines I&#8217;d never seen, leaped streams and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/environmentalism/i-took-it-all-for-granted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-took-it-all-for-granted</link>
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		<title>I Believe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. &#8212;Thoreau, Walking]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA/PIPA Blackout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing to see all these huge cultural institutions (Google, Wikpedia) standing up for freedom on the internet. And I&#8217;m happy to stand up with them (Weightless is participating too). However I am more than a little disappointed that there was no such uprising a couple weeks ago when it was time to defend actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God I Hope the End Is Near</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many jokes/invocations/questionably ironic references/panicked remonstrances will I hear this year about the coming end of the world? When they&#8217;re talking about it on The View and the Nightly News with Brian Williams, it&#8217;s time to give up counting. How much more mainstream can a nutso newage conspiracy theory get? Consider Y2K. That apocalypse was [...]]]></description>
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