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The Dangers of Contract Archaeology: Briars, Poison Oak, and High Speed Pursuit

2010-10-12T17:00:00.000-07:00

From the archives of my personal journal, here's the account of my first week on the job doing contract archaeology in Georgia, way back in 1998. I was inspired to recount what heretofore shall...

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Homecoming

2010-09-17T08:48:00.000-07:00

Moved to Philadelphia. Culture shock ensues. DreamCrisp lives.

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More Trail Work

2009-12-28T14:00:00.000-08:00

Our days at the coastal sanctuary are numbered, but I'm glad to be leaving the place better than we found it. Here's a before and after series of the latest bit o trail work. The beginning,...

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Latest Mushrooms in Northern California

2009-12-20T12:44:00.000-08:00

We've had a couple hard freezes, followed by warm spells and some good, drenching rains. This has brought up a new crop of mushrooms. It's definitely a new phase in mushroom season: gone...

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Core Rocks and Face Rocks

2009-11-29T20:29:00.000-08:00

On good days, I get to balance my computer work with some trail work. This trail was precariously located on the edge of an unstable and eroding slope before I moved it upslope and shored...

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Doubled Up Mushrooms

2009-11-28T19:31:00.000-08:00

Mushroom season 2009 is in full fruit right now in coastal California. Here's some recent finds under the theme "Doubled up." Above, a beautiful young fly agaric (amanita muscaria) surrounded by...

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Celebrating Rock Turkey on Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T14:35:00.000-08:00

Here's "Rock Eagle," a prehistoric rock pile sculpture located in middle Georgia. It's one of the most spectacular indigenous rock piles I've seen in the US. The Native Americans who built it are...

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Chantrelles and the Potatoes of the Gods

2009-11-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

Long time no DreamCrisp. Sorry about that. But to make up for lost time, check out this pic of chantrelles we picked that are as big as your head: I just picked some more today, not so big as...

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How to Make Wild Elderflower Fritters

2009-06-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

All the elder just finished blooming in these parts. To celebrate, we picked some elderflowers and made some delicious elderflower fritters. They were divine, and I'm not just saying that because I...

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Clean Coal is Good Clean Fun

2009-02-26T20:45:00.000-08:00

This made me laugh, even though I am pretty much resigned to the fact that the next 50 years will see more coal burning in the first world than ever before. Doesn't matter how clean it is if coal...

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Amanita Muscaria and other Finds

2008-12-30T17:24:00.000-08:00

Mushroom season is upon us! I've been on several forays in the last month, so I'm just gonna splash up some of the best pics. Mushroom identification is like dream interpretation sometimes.... ...

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Picking Feral Pears

2008-11-23T22:11:00.000-08:00

They make you feel like a very bad person for picking the fruit out of an orchard that hasn't been managed properly for thirty years or more. (I originally typed out "like a terrorist" but then the...

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Eco Dreaming

2008-11-15T12:59:00.000-08:00

I just wrote a long post about archetypal dreams and ecopsychology over at my dream studies site. Check it out; this is an important meeting grounds of ecology and dreams. In the past, most...

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Acorn Harvest 2008

2008-11-10T18:00:00.000-08:00

So every time I think about updating my ecopsychology blog, I am presented the choice: I can blog about being outside, or I can.... go outside. So that's been Dreamcrisp's fatal flaw for the last...

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Bigfoot vs Skunk Ape

2008-08-18T20:23:00.001-07:00

Maybe you've heard about the Bigfoot sighting last week. The body was found in the remote hills of North Georgia and reported by two retired police officers and a local Bigfoot enthusiast. But...

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MacGyver Eat my Muffler

2008-08-06T09:51:00.000-07:00

Enjoy this pic of my truck's muffler held together with some wire, a tent stake, and a can of Budweiser. This is how I rolled through the CA border station this summer. It's better now.

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I'm home

2008-07-03T09:04:00.000-07:00

This is the view from the porch. Getting here took a long time. Being here is easier. I like being here. Once the daily patterns emerge (which will have to wait until after the dreams conference...

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Confessions of a Nomadic Urban Professional

2008-05-13T07:22:00.000-07:00

This is the barn which has held my worldly possessions for the last 9 months while I was reborn in Florida. Notable possessions include: 1 Sesame Street Lamp circa 1977 1 typewriter 1 felt hat...

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Fresh Air

2008-05-04T07:40:00.000-07:00

I felt it two days ago for the first time: the stirring breeze, the call for movement, that first hint of summer solstice calling me forward. Historically, I freak right out every summer. In...

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RIP Albert Hofmann

2008-05-01T06:23:00.000-07:00

January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008

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Nature Meditation and Creepy Crawlies

2008-04-21T07:25:00.000-07:00

I just wrote an a quick n dirty guide about nature awareness on my dream studies blog. Really I should publish it here on my ecopsychology blog, but Blogger disallows pages outside the blog...

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It's all about timing

2008-04-13T16:34:00.001-07:00

I've been obsessing about bars these days. As in, "you better get used to these bars, kid." I suppose it's some kind of imaginal metaphor for my ego's desire to transcend the addictions of thought,...

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Altered States, Entheogens and Culture

2008-03-31T08:35:00.000-07:00

Continuing with the theme of academic rewilding, or the process of the sciences regaining their senses, check out the Anthropology of Consciousness on Facebook. The group is helping folks find...

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Hoarding Gourds

2008-03-28T06:31:00.000-07:00

My brother and I came upon this mother lode of gourds in the middle of Levy County, Florida, piled high at Fern Sink Farm. There was no one around so we selected six gourds between us, and left a...

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Missing Micanopy

2008-03-27T06:25:00.000-07:00

It's been almost six weeks since I left Micanopy, FL, that sweet oasis of peace and quiet on the south rim of Payne's Prairie. I stayed up in that room above the horses' heads. Every morning it was...

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