Jack Burns Lives!

Commentary, ideas and miscellany in the spirit of Edward Abbey

Archive for June, 2006

Adios Amigos

This will be the last post, folks. At least for a while.
Truth is, I don’t really have anything left to say, or at least anything worth hearing or reading. It’s doubtful anyone will even read this. Time to stop writing and start doin’ stuff.
Guess I’m headed southwest.
May the wind be at your back and the [...]

A Return to the Smokies

“…as we met Dewey Webb, a mountain friend, he asked ‘Who wouldn’t want to live here?’
And there is no answer. Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, every-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world.”-Harvey Broome, Out Under The Sky Of The [...]

Lives Of Quiet Desperation

“Sitting on a rock for the noon radio check, halfway down the South Fork, I feel no questions, no troubles, just a great oneness with all welling up inside me. This moment is all that is, all that ever will be. Memories can never equal the experience, and at best we can only attempt to [...]