In the Pipeline

 

A Noble Blog about Beauty and Life

 

The Hammock Papers has Wyeth and Thoreau (and so much more).

Crank It Up

 

On Ghosts

Mitigating Chaos has a memorable post of his days as a young firefighter. 

Signs of Recovery

 Stephen Landry, in the middle, with former colleagues.

Visit Stephen Landry's Blog.

When Failures Become Triumphs

 The nonfiction writer and filmmaker Sebastian Junger was twenty-nine and working as an arborist, harnessed in the upper canopy of a pine tree, when he tore open his leg with a chainsaw and got the idea to write about dangerous jobs. He was still limping two months later when a fishing vessel out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he lived, was lost at sea. Commercial fishing provided his topic; the result was The Perfect Storm.

- From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

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