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With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change ...more

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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

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Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a contention of Heat Moon's - believing as he does ...more

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Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space where nobody is than wher...more