Woodstock
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Today I celebrated my 34th birthday in Woodstock, New York.
The legendary music festival of ’69 actually took place in nearby Bethel, but Woodstock was also quite a hippie haven. A brochure for the town promises a celebration of creativity and the arts, and it’s hard to walk a block without encountering a gallery or some kind of public sculpture. It’s also a place where it’s hard to see where the symbolism of the past ends and authentic modern culture begins. (more…)
The Tonic of Wildness
Costa Rica sunrise
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
- Henry David Thoreau
