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A vote for sustainability

In 2021, there was a collective sense of doom. From health risks due to the pandemic, to employment during a challenged economy, to wildfires, drought, floods and more, it seemed like we experienced a new set of environmental and personal challenges daily. An endless series of hardships often derailed plans…

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A vote for sustainability
A vote for sustainability

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Post Pandemic: A Cautionary Tale

1/1/2021 — Up early, hiking the trail in darkness. I focus my camera on a grizzled black oak perched on a hill on the west side of California’s great Central Valley. Perhaps four hundred years old, the oak stands alone against the sky and time. Gnarled from wind and storms…

Pandemic

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On the Post-Pandemic Perch: A Cautionary Tale
On the Post-Pandemic Perch: A Cautionary Tale
Pandemic

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Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story

Part 1 — The Race — 6:50 am, June 21, 1987 I was trying to clear my head before the race. I knew it would be a big week, but little did I know I would participate in a cliff rescue, have tea with San Francisco Rock and Roll royalty…

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Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story
Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story

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Apr 17, 2021

Eating the “impossible” for breakfast

What seems “impossible” in work or life to you? Have you tried to overcome the “impossible” and if so, how? Has your definition of impossible changed since the pandemic started? For me I felt my first blush with the “impossible” running into the aid station at mile 30 of an…

Cancer

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Life’s Possibilities at a Half-Century
Life’s Possibilities at a Half-Century
Cancer

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Mar 18, 2021

Who cries when ecosystems die?

The fog outside my door rolls to me from the coast with the cry of a forest dying within its thick stream. A voice picked off the surf a few short miles from here. Waves that joyfully guarded the forests below them for a millennium now mourn for the loss…

Abalone

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Who cries when ecosystems die?
Who cries when ecosystems die?
Abalone

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Feb 12, 2021

Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story

Part 2 —Deadman’s Point Cliff Rescue (start with Part 1) 7:00 pm, June 14, 1987 The place where the hiker’s friend fell was a nasty piece of ship eating rock. It is blocked from the main trail by a low rope fence and a sign indicating “Cliff Area, Danger Keep…

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Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story
Falling for the City — A Shaggy Dog Story

12 min read

Robert Watson

Robert Watson

12 Followers

Artist, Writer, Endurance Athlete. More at www.watson-works.com

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