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	<title>West Desert Journal by Nathan Cowlishaw</title>
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	<description>The sun in a quiet world</description>
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		<title>Lost Friend</title>
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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.]]></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>Be a Citizen Journalist &amp; Know the Beauty</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/12/17/be-a-citizen-journalist-discover-the-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of this world cannot be suppressed. A strong desire in humans to protect &#038; defend their freedom also plays big role in this web of life. Certain inalienable liberties were gifted to us by the Creator and CANNOT be taken away or forfeited by any government or institution but sometimes we have to [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=768</guid>
		<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>Concerning Individual Beauty</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/08/29/concerning-individual-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To me&#8230; Beauty runs much deeper than the friggin skin and much deeper than the human spirit; it is determined by someone&#8217;s outlook. Foolishness is ugly, and if you don&#8217;t have beauty in your heart and outlook, then you are an ugly person. It&#8217;s that simple to formulate!]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=758</guid>
		<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>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=755</guid>
		<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>Finger in the Dam</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/06/07/finger-in-the-dam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ramblings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some lazy mornings I don&#8217;t feel like writing but was instructed to practice daily to get anywhere prolific. It&#8217;s kinda like practicing the violin or piano in order to fine tune a talent. Writing is something I really enjoy doing but I have never done it for a wider audience. In my younger years, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse Sense</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/06/06/horse-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m one of the last and youngest of a dying breed that has any lick of horse-sense left with which these newer generations cannot even mentally comprehend! All greenhorn city slickers can just ignore this status entirely because they don&#8217;t even have a clue. As Joe Dirt would joyfully chant; &#8220;Keep on keeping on.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Longing For A Simple Life</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/06/05/longing-for-a-simple-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I long for a simple life you cannot excuse the power of technology and the impact of it on our lives. I think of the revolutions going on in the Middle East and how Facebook and Wikileaks have restored the power of information flow to people. Technology has been able to unveil secrecy so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Southern Utah Leak: I Believe in Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/05/20/i-believe-in-wikileaks/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/05/20/i-believe-in-wikileaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who gives a crap whether drama is useful or not or whether people try to tell you how to act, how to behave, how to conform. I really don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s butt when people tell me what to do, what to think, and what to believe. I believe in the truth and getting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Canyonlands</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/05/01/in-canyonlands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 02:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s run that river when it&#8217;s the muddiest wild through the hell of Cataract Canyon and listen to the roaring song in the heart of the candled night.]]></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>
		<comments>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/31/random-thoughts-love-politics-jailtime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=704</guid>
		<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>A Few Words To Me from My Father</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/11/a-few-words-to-me-from-my-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Child…. When you start to talk about the wind in your hair…. I know it is because you are running from life… So run….. You are very talented though! You write like Edward Abbey… your pictures are breathtaking…. you play a mean flute tune… Your the best damn tour guide…. You are kind…. You [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/04/world-green-back-dollar-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=684</guid>
		<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>Heading to Delta Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/03/01/heading-to-delta-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the morning, I am getting up early and driving three hours to Delta to sell some Alabaster to a rock shop there. Yup, that&#8217;s how I am going to pay the rent this month. My favorite stretch of highway is between Milford and Deseret, Utah, which is seventy miles without services and very desolate. [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=655</guid>
		<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>My Hat&#8217;s Tipped to Libya&#8217;s Freedom Fighters</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/02/25/i-tip-my-hat-to-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/02/25/i-tip-my-hat-to-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkingtree.org/journal/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Libya becomes bloodbath as Moammar Gadhafi begins lose grip on power. I support the Libyan people in the uprising against Gadhafi&#8217;s regime. For me, the serious unrest is reminiscent of a scene from the movie, Braveheart, where Sir William Wallace screams FREEEEEDOM right before losing his head after a long, arduous and disheartening struggle. Let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazing into the Firelight</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2011/02/24/gazing-into-the-firelight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My heart is quiet as I listen to the dark winds moving in from the west as the sun drops in the crimson purple abyss. There is a soft twilight mixed with the smell of cold juniper frost and the sound of a monster walking in the woods. The branches of the pinions creak as [...]]]></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!]]></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>On the Railroad Tracks</title>
		<link>http://talkingtree.org/journal/2010/09/28/on-the-railroad-tracks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Cowlishaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let the starlight capture your gaze tonight where happiness never sleeps and dreams never soften. A heart that is pure cannot deny the truth of what was real, and I love life because of what may be? Never forget the memories as they come and go and flee…]]></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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