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Bone

To see a bone in the tundra, white in the ruck of brown and greens is to see a piece of my future outside my body. To pick it up is to hold a piece of the land’s past, present and future: a piece of the land dreaming. If we felt more that way we wouldn’t treat  the earth like dirt. Thoughts you can contradict, but dreams?

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Bear to Angel

July 28. Left camp sooner than I thought. Not one, but two bears came to the campsite around 11p.m. I’m writing this around     

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Robert perkins June 5, 2023
Robert Perkins has been making documentary films since 1987. He learned “on the job” when he made his first doc with a Super 8 camera during a seventy-two day solo canoe journey in the Canadian arctic. Since the success of his first award winning film, Into the Great Solitude, on PBS and in England on Channel 4, he has made eight documentaries in the vein of personal and intimate storytelling. A trilogy of three films was aired on PBS under the title of One Man’s Journey.

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