Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 32

here's a prose poem for you

Statistics indicate that nearly as many men as women are the victims of physical and emotional domestic abuse. If you're a man and being domestically abused, the times are changing: there are more and more resources for you. You don't have to stay in an abusive relationship.

paddling with the president

The day I began writing a book about rivers, w/ naturalist and installation artist Brian Collier (white paddle), president and founder of the Society for a Re-Natural Environment, Kaw Point, Kansas, departing for St. Louis, June 12 2009, confluence of the Kaw and the Missouri, Kansas City Missouri skyline, behind us. Clark and Lewis camped here june 26-28 1804.

the arc of christianity

Father Louis Hennepin's first few days among the Illinois, January 1680, showing the progression of his perceptions and patience, near what is now Peoria, Illinois, as found in his A New Discovery of a Large Country in America, published in English 1698, probably with Hennepin himself as co-translator

mickey mouse goes to haiti

We learn from Huffingtonpost that neither Disney nor Royal Caribbean, who exploit Haitian labor, has contributed a dime to Haitian relief.

...though we are large and Haiti is small; though we are ...

...though we are large and Haiti is small; though we are strong and Haiti is weak; though we are a continent and Haiti is bounded on all sides by the sea, there may come a time when even in the weakness of Haiti there may be strength to the United States.- FREDERICK DOUGLASSDedication Ceremonies, World's Fair, Lecture on HaitiJackson Park, Chicago, January 2, 1893

happy birthday william james january 11 1842 august 26 1910

Experiences come on an enormous scale, and if we take them all together, they come in a chaos of incommensurable relations that we can not straighten out. We have to abstract different groups of them, and handle these separately if we are to talk of them at all. But how the experiences ever get themselves made, or why their characters and relations are just such as they appear, we can not begin

what wrote the illinois

animals arrived Ayars bank barges Beardstown Black Hawk boat Bogardus building cabin calumet camp canal canoes Captain Elder Captain Levering Cartwright Cavelier Chicago chief corn council Crevecoeur Douglas Eads east exploration Father feet fish forest four France French Frenchmen friends Frontenac fur trade Gomo Governor Edwards Griffon Havana Henri de Tonty horses hundred hunting Iliniwek

living near or far away

Nice article but I agree with Temple Grandin that the degree to which we choose to treat an animal humanely should not depend on the prospective intelligence of the creature, but on its capacity to have an emotional life, which she suggests is startlingly universal among creatures -- and in fact I go Grandin even one better and suggest that it's emotionally and ecologically beneficial to human

"[And What, Friends, is Called a Road]," found here in Fr...

"[And What, Friends, is Called a Road:]," found here in French, the prologue to Rhode Island Notebook, will apparently be included in the 2010 Best American Poetry (Scribner) anthology, which is good news, maybe.

"[And What, Friends, is a Road]," found here in French, t...

"[And What, Friends, is a Road:]," found here in French, the prologue to Rhode Island Notebook, will apparently be included in the 2010 Best American Poetry (Scribner) anthology, which is good news, maybe.