THE NEAR BEYOND

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The Pines At The End Of The Road
A Short Story
Oct 27 • 
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Skies No Longer Silent
Day 1,234
Jul 21 • 
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(De)Extinction
Dire Wolves and Wooly Mammoths and Dodos, oh my...
Apr 9 • 
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Hands Clutching a Frozen Pen.
Appalachian Trail Journals
Mar 27 • 
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Hrebeniv, Ukraine ~ Diary
Journal Entries and Photos from the Carpathian Mountains
Mar 17 • 
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A Very, Very Long Walk
Finding a wellspring of words in the wilderness
May 5, 2023 • 
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Death Valley is Seriously Trippy
Five days in one of the hottest driest places on Earth
Apr 18, 2023 • 
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No Time to Rush
The past year has been a difficult one for me.
Mar 17, 2023 • 
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Photo Essay ~ Pinnacles National Park
Gorgeous landscapes after all the storms in California
Mar 13, 2023 • 
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issue #6 Soggy, Stormy, and Miserable: My Appalachian Trail Nightmare
Flash Floods and Historic Rain in Shenandoah National Park
Feb 27, 2023 • 
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1:10
issue #5 From Ukraine to California
Back at it!
Jan 8, 2023 • 
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issue #4 Rolling Blackouts
Lights out in Lviv
Nov 28, 2022 • 
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THE NEAR BEYOND
THE NEAR BEYOND
Essays • Stories • Photographs • A Creative Journal
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