tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8649494100033935083..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Susan Kay Anderson: Bears and BerriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58798778535122029742012-07-11T09:06:30.072-07:002012-07-11T09:06:30.072-07:00Bear, what color are you?
A blue with white
violet...Bear, what color are you?<br />A blue with white<br />violet rainbow<br />lumbers across<br />the green landscape<br />the color of a cave<br />the den of intention<br />dark matter<br />the most important substance<br />they've recently discovered<br />and reported in a distracted<br />manner way up close over there.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34312394251989106082012-07-11T04:12:45.755-07:002012-07-11T04:12:45.755-07:00Good for you and your little company of ten plus f...Good for you and your little company of ten plus friends, Curtis. That constitutes a community of elective affinity with life.<br /><br />WB, Susan's had the Rogue running through my head these past several weeks. My head badly needs the irrigation.<br /><br />Susan, it was curious to learn that old man Wooldridge created Blossom Bar (as currently constituted) with dynamite. Then again, perhaps that is the legendary "Way of the West"(?). (If it's in your way, blow it up.)<br /><br />Below is Vassilis's link, enabled for clicking. The history of the brutal treatment these animals have received as toys of humans is writ upon them forever. Heart-wrenching. "They are not able to go back to nature."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQjCYqx2QE" rel="nofollow">Saving the Dancing Bears of Greece</a><br /><br />Dancing bears and "party bears" of other countries in the same part of the world have fared less well. The three remaining <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZtOA4FJmw&feature=related" rel="nofollow">dancing bears of Serbia</a> had been slated for rescue by a Bulgarian animal relief group. At the last minute the Serbian authorities refused to allow the transfer. A country in whose recent history cruelty seems endemic and general... but torturing an old, blind bear... bad advertisement for this species.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66419205460307649852012-07-11T00:13:20.202-07:002012-07-11T00:13:20.202-07:00Bears have had a bad time over here in Hellas; onc...Bears have had a bad time over here in Hellas; once plentiful in the mountains of Northern Greece and thus easy prey for hunters and gypsies who would capture and “teach” them to “dance” for the natives, they dwindled down almost to extinction until one man—Giannis Boutaris—decided to use his money to help save them. Here’s a link to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQjCYqx2QE<br /><br />(By the way, Boutaris is now mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city.)vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80027691178323823652012-07-10T11:51:56.970-07:002012-07-10T11:51:56.970-07:00I've died a thousand times
at Blossom Bar
in t...I've died a thousand times<br />at Blossom Bar<br />in the crashing sound<br />of the rapids--<br />their fresh mists<br />cooling everything<br />down just past<br />Mule Creek Canyon<br />and its enticing<br />drops into boiling pots<br />in the Rogue<br />where men have lived<br />hacking away at the gold<br />becoming ghosts<br />finally resting<br />sitting with one leg<br />crossed over<br /> the otherSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5993859149221762982012-07-10T11:50:24.212-07:002012-07-10T11:50:24.212-07:00Thank you, Susan and TC, for these words and image...Thank you, Susan and TC, for these words and images.<br /><br />"The river smell enthralls, drugs." We don't have a grand river in this City and the reek of the canals can be very dispiriting at times. <br /><br />I'll keep the Rogue River in my head for a while.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-809174385186640912012-07-10T09:33:07.866-07:002012-07-10T09:33:07.866-07:00This is just great -- lovely, touching and generou...This is just great -- lovely, touching and generous. In Tuxedo Park, New York (the name Tuxedo is apparently a corruption of the Lenape word denoting bears and we're quite close to Bear Mountain), we see and love our bears. (Which makes us part of a minority of, say, ten.) No matter, we have those people, the bears and whatever deer and turkey are left for company. CurtisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453842393788270587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80771884448406734182012-07-10T08:59:24.933-07:002012-07-10T08:59:24.933-07:00(Or nibbling the azaleas.)(Or nibbling the azaleas.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43715695249269480332012-07-10T08:55:00.301-07:002012-07-10T08:55:00.301-07:00Obviously you are a woman who knows how to keep a ...Obviously you are a woman who knows how to keep a trail from becoming overcrowded. Scout lore has it that if a person is going to die on the Rogue River it will most likely be at <a href="http://blossombar.com/" rel="nofollow">Blossom Bar</a>.<br /><br />But it won't be the bears did it. They'll be too busy catching fish.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90544399768237511102012-07-10T08:21:15.125-07:002012-07-10T08:21:15.125-07:00It was suddenly crowded
in the wilderness
that s...It was suddenly crowded<br />in the wilderness<br /><br /> that summer hiking <br />down the Rogue River Trail.<br /><br />Denise and I were visited<br />by our future husbands<br />in the guise of Ursus americanus--<br />sniffing all around the tent.<br />Robert Christie, Ottmar Geitner.<br /><br />We managed to scare<br />the bear<br />with Sierra cups<br />and shouting <br />but it hid and waited<br /> across Whiskey Creek<br /> head in paws<br /> a dog, a god<br />until we left <br />so it could really<br /> get to know us<br />at least to Blossom Bar.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.com