Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Pristine
“Right now, on both the Washington and Oregon coasts, the beaches seem to be pretty pristine.” The words in the quote above are from a state-level representative briefing the Clallam County commissioners last month. It may be that we have different definitions of the word pristine, and I’m not particularly interested in picking a fight […]
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Looking outside
With less than two weeks to go before Ikkatsu:The Roadless Coast has its premiere moment, we’re looking at a few updates to the project itself. Before we start in full-time on planning next year’s expedition, we’ve got a few more things to do with the one we already completed. First of all, I’m looking forward […]
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Days gone by
I’m not sure why – maybe it’s the rain – but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the big changes, the way that the world moves. Sometimes it’s a combination of little things that team up to make something obsolete, like I wrote about a few days ago with regard to phone books, slide […]
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Vampire watch
The rain is falling in the dark outside my window. A steady, soaking rain, like the kind they get in Guam, except colder. Not the usual misty stuff that we get around here, the kind of rain that Tom Robbins calls the “witch measles of persistent drizzle.” This is somewhere between that and Hurricane Sandy, […]
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Who I am – Who you are
My name is Ken Campbell. This is my blog and the views on it are mine, not supported by or attributable to any other person, company or organization. Sometimes, my views change – less often than they might have done in my younger days – but when that happens, I am likely to admit it. […]
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Buggy whips and chamber pots
Some of the students in my Outdoor Ed classes take leaves from the plants we’re studying so that they can look at them later or use them as reference aids during the next quiz. One of the kids told me last week that some of her leaves were cracking and drying out, weren’t much good for anything anymore. I […]
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Tweetin’
I never – and I mean never – thought I’d ever see the day when I would open a Twitter account. The whole idea of communicating in 140 characters or less has always seemed like a thumbnail sketch of everything that is wrong with modern living. The pace of human activity is so quick that […]
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Four plus two
There are links between smoking and cancer, between overeating and obesity, between greenhouse gases and global climate change. The elementary math involved in determining basic cause and effect is something that most of us might know by the phrase, “Two plus two equals four.” In computer-speak, IFTTT (If this, then that), is a concept that […]
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Higher ground
The Quileute tribe held a celebration yesterday to mark the beginning of the village’s move to higher ground. La Push sits right at the edge of the sea and at the mouth of the river… prime tsunami devastation zone. A land deal was worked out with the Federal government last year that will allow the […]
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A Look at the future
“One of the mysteries of late is the demise of various paddlefests…” So begins John Kimantas, the Editor of Coast and Kayak magazine, in the opening pages of the issue from this past summer. He goes on to talk about the possibility that it is the advent and proliferation of cheap plastic recreational paddle boats that […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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