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I've never heard anyone toss off "I scaled Kilimanjaro" as an aside. I am deeply impressed with everything here, and then there's that!

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Wow, yes!

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Thanks for sharing. Beautiful and touching. Living in Holland Dharma Bums was one of the first English books I read. Deeply impressed me. Later I discovered Gary Snyders poetry and loved it. Years after that I discovered that he stood model for Japhy Ryder in Kerouac’s Dharma Bums.

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Thanks, Bernard, for those positive remarks. And yes, I guess most of us first came across Gary Snyder as a result of Kerouac's portrait in that great novel.

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Thank you for giving us a glimpse of Gary Snyder in his 90's. I'm so happy to see that his faculties have not diminished. He may be slowed down physically but that's expected. Long live Gary Snyder and Ping too.

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To their long lives indeed!

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[Snyder reads (several) “Little Songs For Gaia”]

(“Red-shafted/ Flicker -/ sharp cool call…”…”..the droppings of oak-moth caterpillars/ nibbling spring leaves/High in the oak limbs above.”

“Log trucks go by at four in the morning… “as we think, dream and play/of the world that is carried away”

“THE FLICKERS sharp clear call/ –THIS! THIS! THIS/ in the cool pine breeze”

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Many thanks to you and one of my favorite poets.

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Glad you enjoyed it, Chris, and thank you for sharing your comment.

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I've loved Gary's work for many years, thank you for sharing this Simon!❤️

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