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On the Death of Robin Williams | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. On the Death of Robin Williams. By cathybell on August 12, 2014. I never expected to feel this much sadness at the death of someone I didn’t know. I never expected to feel compelled to write about the death of someone I didn’t know when so. Eloquently and with far more depth than I can muster. But here I am, writing. I have to write. 8230; And then, not long after that, things started getting better. Which brings ...
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Appalachian Trail | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. Posts from the ‘Appalachian Trail’ Category. What a Month: From the Appalachian Trail to the Joshua Tree Desert. Instead of being fully present on the trail, in the total immersion in nature that I had enjoyed so far, I found my thoughts drifting ahead and growing chaotic. My busy brain abandoned the beautiful simplicity of trail life before my body did. Off the Trail, on to the Next Stage of My Life. I’ve b...
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Almost Time | Cathy Bell
https://cathybell.org/2014/03/30/almost-time
Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. By cathybell on March 30, 2014. All planning complete,. All logistics done, I am. Of backcountry trips,. But I am also. I cast myself on. The waters of the world, and. Hope they bear me up. My Appalachian Trail adventure begins this week at Springer Mountain, Georgia. It will end when it ends. I don’t know when that will be, but I hope I know where it will be: Mount Katahdin, Maine. April 2, 2014. Stories about th...
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Archives | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Life ...
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Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. I consider myself an expert generalist with a passion for nature and the environment. My academic background is in interdisciplinary field science. I studied geology as an undergraduate at Princeton University. Then switched fields as a master’s student in the University of Vermont. 8216;s Field Naturalist program. The quarterly magazine of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In South Dakota, where I coordinated socia...
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Coming Soon to a Forest Floor Near You | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. Coming Soon to a Forest Floor Near You. By cathybell on April 29, 2014. By the end of April, I’ll have hiked the first 300 miles of the Appalachian Trail. It has been a delight to watch spring begin to unfold on the landscape. Hiking up and down and up again, I’ve had the chance to see all shades of the season, from leafy green valleys to still-wintry 6,000 ft. summits. So if you’ve been hankering for spring...
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Giving Thanks for the Wild Lands that Sustain Us | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. Giving Thanks for the Wild Lands that Sustain Us. By cathybell on November 28, 2013. On this national day of reflection and gratitude, what do people sitting around a Thanksgiving feast usually give thanks for? How many gatherings of families and friends will voice appreciation for the land itself? Am I purely a part of this ecosystem, and this ecosystem only? Of course not. I still drive a car powered by foss...
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Why Homelandscapes? | Cathy Bell
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Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. First things first: the title of this blog is pronounced “homeland-scapes”. Not “home landscapes”. The land on which we live is our home, as much as is the physical structure of the building in which we sleep and prepare meals. We cannot separate ourselves from the land. We therefore would be wise and prudent to consider how we fit into it. Our own landscapes are the places that we know most intimately and, I hope...
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At Last! A Trail Name! | Cathy Bell
https://cathybell.org/2014/04/12/at-last-a-trail-name
Writer naturalist lover of parks and wild lands. Homelandscapes: Cathy’s Blog. Read More …. By cathybell on April 12, 2014. Now that we’ve been on the trail for over a week, my fellow thruhikers are starting to feel comfortable introducing themselves by their trail names in place of their real-world monikers. I’ve chatted in recent days with Zen, Down Dog, Mama Bear, Cornflake, Osprey, Yellow Beard, and Viva. After several iterations of this, I came up behind him and he said, “Here we go again, the...
