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	<title>West Desert Journal by Nathan Cowlishaw &#187; Selected Few</title>
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	<description>The sun in a quiet world</description>
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		<title>Lost Friend</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2012/01/07/lost-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old lover and best friend, you&#8217;re nothing more than a distant faded memory but for a brief moment your memory returns to haunt me once again. Written by Nathan Cowlishaw]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Thoughts On the Wilderness</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/12/23/a-few-thoughts-on-the-wilderness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking as I watch the sun dew dripping off the naked winter trees. It&#8217;s a cold winter night, but the Earth is strong and beautiful. All is beautiful. Wish you were here&#8230; &#8230;I miss the summer, hiking in the narrows of Zion with my sweetheart, or watching the purple light of evening drape the desert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bittersweet Experience of Havasupai</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/07/14/a-bittersweet-experience-of-havasupai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havasupai, in the Grand Canyon, is not just a canyon and a bunch of pretty waterfalls. It has cultural significance as well as a lot of history surrounding the indigenous people that call it home, mainly the Supai. I’ll include my thoughts on the Supai people at a later time, in a different journal entry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decolonizing America?</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/11/01/decolonizing-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not impossible for Uncle Sam to change his outlook &#038; decolonize. In fact, I think he could change his whole opinion &#038; quit seeing the world from the typical ethnocentric, westernized standpoint. Our multi-cultural nation could enter an enlightened renaissance never seen before in the history of civilization! Written by Nathan Cowlishaw]]></description>
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		<title>Owls, Coyotes, Memories and Dreams</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/26/owls-and-coyotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Amigo, Omar and I traveled out to Milford, Utah. We stopped off at an old abandoned mining mill and smelter out in the boonies. There inside a decrepit torn building with a partially collapsed roof, we saw a Great Horned owl which flew out of the ruins and then returned a few seconds later. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Requires Deep Roots</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/20/life-requires-deep-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m like the coyote, often careless, reckless, and naive even in my late twenties. Okay, I have to confess something publicly, I acted out on my insecurities. It was very reckless and I may have said some mean things. I didn&#8217;t realize they may be taken that way until after I reread the words. Be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Strong Heart</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/19/my-strong-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I finally have something to write about and it concerns my earlier life. This is what I call introspection. When I was in grade school I hopelessly teased, ridiculed, and made fun of. In the sixth grade I wore a hat that proclaimed, &#8220;I love my Grandpa!&#8221; The other school children made fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aliens and Country Store Ice Cream</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/15/aliens-and-country-store-ice-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove out to Area 51 in the middle of the night which turned into a big misadventure. Actually, it wasn&#8217;t a misadventure at all. Well it was, but it wasn&#8217;t. And it wasn&#8217;t even my idea. You see, there&#8217;s this girl I was studying with at Southern Utah University and after we finished up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventure and Misadventure Ramble</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/06/adventures-and-misadventures-ramble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of life cannot be controlled or pushed. There is joy in the indescribable and mysterious. When you journey into unknown places the mystery never fully reveals itself. For many seasons I have explored vast distances and realized how grateful I am for experience. I have loved every adventure and misadventure. Every adventure has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Change</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2009/03/31/443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ponder the precious and rare beauty of this world. The quiet that is. The sun rises in the east igniting the purple twilight while canyon birds join serenading crickets. The arms of orange light touch the tips of canyon rim and I am lost somewhere between eternity and pure love. This is life and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashbacks of Havasupai</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/08/24/flashbacks-of-havasupai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went hiking down in the Narrows. There were no clouds in the sky. I returned to Cedar City around 7 P.M. and spent that evening reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. Sometime in the wee-hours of morning I had a strong dream about the entire Grand Canyon getting inundated with water ripping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Havasupai Men Saved Us</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/08/20/four-havasupai-men-saved-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a beautiful and pristine weekend on the Havasupai Reservation in Grand Canyon. Late on a Thursday night we hiked eight miles into the Grand Canyon to Supai Village and arrived at the tourist office shortly before day-break. After we paid our dues we headed straight for Supai campground two miles away to set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reality of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/07/09/the-reality-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I had a wild hair to break out of my shell of conformity and write a few words here on Freedom. I&#8217;m talking True Freedom and how it feels. First comes courage and faith to think outside the box and to be different from all the others. Freedom is finding the courage to really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysteries, Miracles and Unknown happenings</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/23/mysteries-miracles-and-unknown-happenings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I had an amazing experience not easily explained. In fact I was baffled at first and then totally overjoyed. It all started when I received a fix-it ticket from a highway cop about a month before for a dead tail-light on my Suzuki Samurai. I ended up replacing the whole tail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thankyou God for Canyon Country</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/12/thankyou-god-for-canyon-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Heavenly Father for this blessing of harmony. I am so grateful to be a part of the colorful landscape. Canyon Country runs in my blood. It is a part of my soul. When I become old, I want my carcass dumped in a flash flood gully where coyotes may discover my discarded flesh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lonesome Wasteland</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/07/lonesome-wasteland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am resting by alcove deep in Canyonlands, dreaming of wasteland shadows and the ancient voices from the past. Thank goodness, I am far from town and listening to the sweet sound of crickets and mourning doves in a cottonwood. A dust devil sweeps the arid plain whipping tumble weeds. A dark black raven trails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful Quiet</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/02/01/the-beautiful-quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In town I feel like a stranger and so I go home to visit the hills. Them rolling mountains have always been my friends. They are always there waiting. My love for the wild is my inner peace. On deep summer nights the thunder rolls over canyon country and I hear the sound of rain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Candled Night</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/01/10/in-the-candled-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a candled night in dreams they sleep vast distances lay between the firelight dances in their minds with each passing hour the dream fades then grows an empty void fills the interior walls of yesteryear even yesterday a vision of pairs walks carefully down an imagined street the soft candled sky shows fiery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wagon of Ashes</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/10/18/wagon-of-ashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[inside the doorway of the traveling sky, there is quiet peace in this world. although there is a lonely wagon filled with ashes it wonders past sea and mountain, and through the valleys. when it gets dark and black. without sight, does it wonder and cannot find peace. the children that knew, are crying, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About the Great Change</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/09/10/off-on-a-tangent-about-ufos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe in the existence of aliens, bigfoot, and most other phenomena. I think it naive to say nothing is there, because we live in a universe where the possibilities are infinite. Just look at the stars on a clear night out in the middle of nowhere! We do not always understand what is happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navajoland and Beyond&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/08/22/navajoland-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the wanderlust bug. There are so many places that I want visit. My dream is to move around the Southwest, and visit all those desert landscapes between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. I&#8217;ve admired those hitch-hikers that travel great American highways, like the famous, but deceased, Chris McCandless&#8230; I have become somewhat a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shouting to River Runners</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/02/25/shouting-to-river-runners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace is in the canyon in clouds passing over massive sandstone and limestone ledges. All is quiet, far from city noise. The deep waters of the Rio Colorado fill the inner gorge as ravens plane the blue sky catching thermals of late winter air. Cloud and cliff shadows mix. In the next few hours private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving In a World of Suffering</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/02/15/surviving-in-a-world-of-suffering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what hides from most human beings and its realm is the vast wilderness. Humans have been separating themselves from the experiences of their ancestors. Most of them no longer retain even a hint of their original life ways. We have all lost track of why we are on this planet, which is our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact is Stranger then Fiction</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/01/31/fact-stranger-then-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always reminding myself that fact is stranger then fiction, it gives me the ability to have faith in the unbelievable. It is not hard to feel the power of this world, but the truth isn&#8217;t always in reach. There is a strong force running through my veins to seek the unknown. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming of the Afterlife</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2006/05/04/dreaming-of-the-afterlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A boy sat outside the village looking at the grave yard at the mesa&#8217;s edge. &#8220;What ever happened to the dead?&#8221; he pondered. &#8220;Are they living some where else far away?&#8221; Skeletons walking around after the day turns to night inspires the boy to dream of the darkness and deepness of rivers. &#8220;Are the dead [...]]]></description>
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