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White Rabbit

1 February 2002

Marching down the wintry road, it occurred to me that roads and marching were the instruments of war. It was a logging road, after all. I was just out for a walk--but with what murderous intent? Stride, stride, stride...what fight was I determined to wage, the path cleared for me into the heart of the wilderness?

True, I was filled with a sullen anger, over personal affronts: the boss hadn't returned my call; my wife was in a bad mood; I couldn't make any clear decisions despite a morning poring over the budget. I hated being left hanging, not knowing what was to come.

When I realized what I must look like, in the eyes of the forest, it gave me pause. In fact I stopped in my tracks--and turned straight off into the pathless, snowy woods. The strange thing was, I kept right on marching, with more gymnastic effort required to go around and over the bent saplings and fallen trees.

What a crashing idiot I was, in that still, silent forest!

Then a sudden flash caught my eye: white on white--a rabbit, teasing, first hopping out from behind a log, then turning back under, and bounding away.

I followed, a little way, until my guide vanished...leaving me with the mystery of not-knowing, pen in hand.

The woods are silent again--and so am I.

The air is brighter now.

--Nowick Gray


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Telling it Like it Is (January 2003)

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On Novelty (February 2002)

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party after September 11 (December 2001)

Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion (book review) (November 2001)

Forest Storm (September 2001)

Feminism, Poetic Myth, and Alternative Culture - An Homage to The White Goddess (July 2000)

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Wheel of Fortune (April 2000)

Great Writers and Street Poets (February 2000)

Upgrade for Speed Because Time is Running Out? (August 1999)

Retail Therapy: Decision Making in the Computer Age (August 1999)

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NetGlut: Notes from a cleansing fast (February 1998)

To Unix and Back Alive (January 1997)

Webness (November 1996)

Surfing Again (November 1996)

Bananas in British Columbia (May 1996)

Confessions of a computer addict (May 1996)


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