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		<title>A Few Thoughts On the Wilderness</title>
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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>Ending Greed</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/10/27/ending-greed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ending greed is a good goal. Greed is the disease plaguing our society as a whole and infects different faucets of life and culture. To name a few of these symptoms they include; racism, colonialism, imperialism, genocide, mis-use of religion, environmental destruction, fascism, forced-assimilation and tyranny, etc. Greed is a disease of the mind. It [...]]]></description>
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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>A Bittersweet Experience of Havasupai</title>
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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>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>Owls, Coyotes, Memories and Dreams</title>
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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>I Want the Truth</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2009/12/30/i-want-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Oscar Wilde, &#8220;the truth is rarely pure and never simple.&#8221; In my heart, I want nothing more than the truth and that desire is pure and simple. Written by Nathan Cowlishaw]]></description>
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		<title>Quality of life vs. Length</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2009/12/18/quality-of-life-vs-length/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the quality of life in more important than the length of life. Please folks, recognize the beauty that is right in front of you! Written by Nathan Cowlishaw]]></description>
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		<title>When Confronting Rattle Snakes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2009/06/13/on-confronting-rattle-snakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nate doesn&#8217;t kill rattlers, instead he talks to them and says sorry for trespassing whenever he meets one. He must have a soft spot for rattlers and humans who behave similarly? Written by Nathan Cowlishaw]]></description>
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