Second Thoughts
Gael MacLeanWelcome to Second Thoughts—where we circle back to what we thought we understood. Climate, culture, the whole catastrophe. Sometimes with data, sometimes with jokes, always with the suspicion that the obvious take missed something.
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Hope Is a Four Letter Word
There is a night I have not told anyone about in forty years.
It happened on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, in June, when I was young enough to believe exhaustion was temporary. Something occurred that I have never had a good word for....
Hefted
I wanted two sheep.
I had five acres and a weed problem, and two sheep sounded like a tool rather than a life. Forty years in the digital world, where my judgment was considered worth paying for, and I had come up this mountain on the proc...
The Pasture
I learned to love deer in Nara, Japan, a long time before I had any ground of my own to keep them off. Sika, small and spotted, moving through the streets of an old capital. They are there on the strength of a story: a god arrived at Kasuga...
The Road to Town
The road I live on runs beside an old highway, and the highway runs beside a river. On the far side there are cliffs. The deer come down off the mountain to drink, the way they have for thousands of years, and to reach the water they cross...
The Breath in the Cedars
For days I walked the same room. The gallery keeps a permanent wall of her canvases, and I would come in off the street and circle them the way you circle a sound you heard once and never placed — not to study the little cards, not to learn...
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