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	<title>West Desert Journal by Nathan Cowlishaw &#187; Reflections</title>
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		<title>Pain and Adventure</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/07/14/pain-and-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a slight breeze coming through the window blinds and the face of sunlight creeps against the bedroom wall and edges down the hallway towards the bathroom. The blazing star begins another summer day as I drag myself out of bed and down the road. The Jeep starts up with a clogged fuel filter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Experience As An Outlaw</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/31/random-thoughts-love-politics-jailtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start a political movement. Several ideas keep flooding my head and I can no longer ignore them. I have a dream for America, and it&#8217;s starts in my local community. Conservative hill-billy Southern Utah, here I come. Consider me both conservative and middle-of-the-road but I have ideas that run deeper than civilization and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World of the Green-Back Dollar Bill</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/04/world-green-back-dollar-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology in my world has a limited place. If all electricity shut off tomorrow, it would be the first day of an epic adventure that I have been looking forward to for all my life. That&#8217;s right, I see the &#8216;End&#8217; as the beginning of an adventure, and definitely a new way of life! I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Morning Drive</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/02/28/early-morning-restlessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 5 AM this morning I threw on Levis and Redwing boots and rushed into the early February cold before the hint of dawn. As I fired up the Jeep it was so frigid that I quickly retreated into the house waiting for the engine to warm up. The day before, after church, I drove [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=606</guid>
		<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>My Life is a River</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/10/02/my-life-is-a-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 1 A.M. in the morning and I am inspired to write. Why is that? This thought came into my head because I no longer suffer from the writers block. All of a sudden I feel inspired to write. Life is like a river. I&#8217;m a desert rat and river rat and this is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Howling Wind Tells the Story</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/10/01/dust-devils-and-the-howling-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever listen to the wind, the silence, the rattling aspen leaves? Have you considered the end of the world, lately? Today feels very uncertain. The final throws of summer are dying; crickets still sing at night. Off in the distance I listen to the hum of the freeway, diesels and cars fly down [...]]]></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>My Random Cowboy Life</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/04/21/my-random-cowboy-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for me to call it quits on being a summer tour guide. That means staying home and having a real social life. For the past five years, I have been either traveling or working somewhere on a ranch! It’s spectacular but I&#8217;ll admit even the best adventuring grows old. I want a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Noise is Made</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/02/03/a-noise-is-made/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the day to day continuity, you wish for some kind of escape from reality. Vanity rules our minds because we are emotional creatures. There is no logic concerning human behavior. Beyond all the static, our most basic desires are not always realized. Could it be we don&#8217;t always venture beyond where we feel [...]]]></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>Early in the Morning</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/22/early-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I listened intently to whistling robins. They were chirping and cheering with an early morning joy. The lovely noise filled me with a bright primordial bliss. There&#8217;s a storm rolling in from the desert. The whirling gusts of cold shifting air whip the Ponderosa trees in the yard. The past three days the [...]]]></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 Rock Art of Canyon Lands</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/08/the-rock-art-of-canyon-lands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no way to put into words how you feel when looking at huge murals of strange painted beings floating on canyon walls&#8230; These images predate the Anasazi and when they arrived in Grand Canyon perhaps they were perplexed by the archaic pictography scattered throughout Canyon Country? They give you a sense of awe [...]]]></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>Thoughts on Patience</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/05/01/thoughts-on-patience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a real virtue to remain calm when storms unfold. As you think you are getting old now, just keep advancing forward through different levels of maturity. Then you will look back and realize your own immaturities. You will see that wisdom and love are not derived from arrogance or selfishness. Peace and solitude [...]]]></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>Changing Course Just a Little&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2008/01/09/finishing-my-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve returned to Southern Utah University to finish my schooling. I am not too far from finishing a degree in Sociology. I will pursue graduate school after that and get a masters degree. My interest is Cultural Anthropology or a related field of study. So I&#8217;ve returned after a two year absence. I&#8217;ve been working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Steadfastness</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/12/16/faith-and-steadfastness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the hardest trials come knocking on your door, that&#8217;s when you have to have the strongest faith and steadfastness. That is how it feels. That is the way it always will be. You will not be rewarded until after all the trials of your faith. The truth is that life is unpredictable. The way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Birth and Death</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2007/11/26/between-birth-and-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My love of life is incredible and God made me into a pillar of light. Because I am happy to be free, to roam the quiet folds of reality, to travel the haunted night. I drive a small vehicle down the back roads and dirt roads of a big sky desert. My time is short [...]]]></description>
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