In Search of Wildness

An English teacher's Alaskan sojourn
Funded in part by a William C. Friday Foundation Fellowship Grant

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From mid-June through late July 2006, I posted my thoughts and photos to this blog in journal fashion. Unlike Chris McCandless, though, I welcomed the opportunity to engage in dialogue across thousands of miles. While blogging from the edge of the Tongas subarctic rainforest in Alaska, I encouraged readers to drop me a line using the comment function. Mail from home is always welcome, and I relished messages from family, friends, students, colleagues, and total strangers.

I traveled to Alaska to further understand and experience nature without human influence. I read literature about the wild as I explored nature in a purer form than we normally can. Alaska, despite its development has not been tamed. In such an environment, we can learn a lot about nature, ourselves, and our society. We all share a common root in the wild and a common future relationship with the natural world as we together choose to sustain it.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Comments of Particular Note (June 09, 2006)

On the last day of class this year, I asked my students to read the blog's first post and leave me a comment. Some left kind retrospective notes about the year which I've left (mostly for me to remember them while away this summer); others left more introspective or reflective commentary on my original post, "Naturalized Nature" or the general notion of a trip to Alaska. As they take up the questions I posed, I've listed their names for the reader's ease.

Nicole
Hill
Colin
Marina
Adam
John
Rashidi
Arjun
Ben S.
David
Julie C.
Natalie
Lindsey
Erik
Rachel

posted by Palmer Seeley | 11:37 AM

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