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One hundred essays

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Never thought I’d live to be a hundred. I never thought I’d get to do the things That all those other sons do, and they do. I never thought I’d ever have my freedom. An age ago my maker was … Continue reading →

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Cleanest pocketknives

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.              – Friedrich Nietzsche Cleanest pocketknives Not to brag, but I have the cleanest and best-maintained bird knives of all … Continue reading →

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Schooling Butch

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

…I do not recommend Jim Pavlec’s method of behavior modification for an aggressive dog. But I do admit that in this particular case it was effective. Schooling Butch Lester Haugland, a dairyman whose farm was eight or nine miles east … Continue reading →

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Homecoming

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.             – Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915), French poet and novelist Homecoming Waking to a frost-covered world on the first true day of autumn is like coming home after a long, … Continue reading →

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Best reading

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

I believe that our attraction to art – to stories and songs – is because the best of them resonate with and go some way to help explain the eternal mystery of why we exist and why we have turned … Continue reading →

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The moment

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

You can go back to the place, but you cannot go back to the time.                         – Clement Seagrave The moment In one moment everything changed, and your life was not the same. A door closed, another door opened, and … Continue reading →

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Shoulder to the wheel

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

I did not mind killing anything, any animal, if I killed it cleanly. They all had to die and my interference with the nightly and seasonal killing that went on all the time was very minute and I had no … Continue reading →

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Almost famous

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

“L’imagination est une arme dans la guerre contre la réalité.” (Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.)        – Jules de Gaultier, French philosopher (1858-1942) “The man who has no imagination has no wings.”   … Continue reading →

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Friends

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

I hope the day will be a lighter highway, For friends are found on every road. Can you ever think of any better way For the lost and weary traveler to go?   It seems to me a crime that … Continue reading →

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Touching The Wall

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

Touching The Wall Touching “The Wall” – the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. – proved to be one of the most profound and most agonizing experiences of my life. We did not go to Washington solely for that … Continue reading →

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