Comments on: Finished http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/10/finished/ :::this is the way the world ends::: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shotts http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/10/finished/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Shotts Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:39:33 +0000 http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/ned/finished/#comment-183 Congratulations on getting through the Gandhi autobiography, Ned. No small feat, one I haven't braved myself. His early life seems so interesting, as you see his ideas becoming actions, while in South Africa and in his law practice and as he returns to India. All of this I've only had from snippets, documentaries, Attonborough's Gandhi film, and from various museums and places we visited in India last January. But I have not sat down to grapple with the writing as you have. Ninemile Wolves sounds very interesting, and very formative for you and your painting. I've liked what little Rick Bass I have read--essays and a story or two, in the New Yorker, Orion magazine, and the occasional anthology. I'm heartened mostly by what I hear about wolves being reintroduced successfully, here in Minnesota at least--but I also hear in several northern states. The Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, is doing some wonderful work in this regard, and the Minnesota photographer Jim Brandenberg is doing a lot to raise awareness of the needed environment for wolves to return. It's important to have stories like this one, because--as your quote from Bass suggests--it shows that environmental degradation, deforestation, and loss of wild habitat CAN be restored, and it's worth the efforts, funding, work, etc. to keep this land clean and inviolate. We'll see how we fare on this second chance. Thanks for the post. --Shotts Congratulations on getting through the Gandhi autobiography, Ned. No small feat, one I haven’t braved myself. His early life seems so interesting, as you see his ideas becoming actions, while in South Africa and in his law practice and as he returns to India. All of this I’ve only had from snippets, documentaries, Attonborough’s Gandhi film, and from various museums and places we visited in India last January. But I have not sat down to grapple with the writing as you have.

Ninemile Wolves sounds very interesting, and very formative for you and your painting. I’ve liked what little Rick Bass I have read–essays and a story or two, in the New Yorker, Orion magazine, and the occasional anthology.

I’m heartened mostly by what I hear about wolves being reintroduced successfully, here in Minnesota at least–but I also hear in several northern states. The Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, is doing some wonderful work in this regard, and the Minnesota photographer Jim Brandenberg is doing a lot to raise awareness of the needed environment for wolves to return.

It’s important to have stories like this one, because–as your quote from Bass suggests–it shows that environmental degradation, deforestation, and loss of wild habitat CAN be restored, and it’s worth the efforts, funding, work, etc. to keep this land clean and inviolate. We’ll see how we fare on this second chance.

Thanks for the post.

–Shotts

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