Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # peregrine by nature blah blah ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](http://peregrinebynature.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - ["you've been living in a dream world"](http://peregrinebynature.com/youve-been-living-in-a-dream-world/) - "wake up." - [the oregon vortex](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-oregon-vortex/) - my baby wants an endless supply of dead dinosaur and Pleistocene flora - [take these hands](http://peregrinebynature.com/things-i-saw-people-carry-today/) - i saw muslims worrying their prayer beads, lips moving soundlessly. I saw talibaes begging with their tomato cans, mostly empty. i saw a porter carrying flats of eggs balanced impossibly atop his head. i saw women carrying babies; cats stealing chicken bones and i saw seagulls taking off with silver flashing fish. and i saw - [(the) Fall](http://peregrinebynature.com/fall/) - The more deeply you look into a matter don’t we all just find ourselves hugging like brothers. - ['Stranded in some skin and bones'](http://peregrinebynature.com/stranded-in-some-skin-and-bones/) - - miriam, Au Canada Thank you to these awesome travel sites for recently featuring peregrine by nature! BootsnAll Traveling Greener - [remember your quantum physics](http://peregrinebynature.com/remember-your-quantum-physics/) - as observed particles behave differently, so awareness creates your reality. to bring change to deep realms offer whatever love you can, don't you know you're luminous? you are made of light. - ['You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.'](http://peregrinebynature.com/you-are-a-soul/) - Walking on the beach in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. - [Dejeuner](http://peregrinebynature.com/dejeuner/) - One man's fish is another man's poisson. - [non nuclear winter](http://peregrinebynature.com/now-approaching-midnight/) - everything is poignant in these last moments before midnight - tehuacana, tx - [Slab City Blues](http://peregrinebynature.com/slab-city-blues/) - Slab City near Niland, California. - [Sea of Cortés](http://peregrinebynature.com/burnyourships/) - Cortes said in order to truly commit you have to burn your ships. - [hair salon](http://peregrinebynature.com/more-of-my-village/) - pounding grain, cooking over open fire, elaborate braids and tea making in this video of my village in southeastern Senegal, West Africa - [Attaya](http://peregrinebynature.com/attaya/) - Each round with added sugar to symbolize the growing sweetness of friendship. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down - [The Harmattan is blowing in](http://peregrinebynature.com/dust/) - african dust is kicked up and blown west on the trade winds where it freezes in midair and falls on your tongue and mittens. - [lac rose - the pink lake](http://peregrinebynature.com/pink-lake/) - plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. - [Aslan is on the move](http://peregrinebynature.com/let-there-be-light/) - L'Abri Fellowship is a place for students of all ages to come and study meaning, identity and purpose. - [Rainy season](http://peregrinebynature.com/493/) - The rainy season often brings death to Dakar. - [South by](http://peregrinebynature.com/242/) - [All the world is melting](http://peregrinebynature.com/all-the-world-is-melting/) - Waterfalls in Dunsmuir, CA - [24 degrees](http://peregrinebynature.com/24-degrees-north-of-the-equator-and-through-a-wardrobe/) - 24 degrees north of the equator and through a painting entered narnia. -sea of cortez, mx - [art imitates kim](http://peregrinebynature.com/2498-2/) - life imitates art. kim hangs the laundry out on the sailboat karaka in the sea of cortez - [photogenic](http://peregrinebynature.com/2660-2/) - adjective pho·to·ge·nic \ˌfō-tə-ˈje-nik, -ˈjē-\ producing or generating light Nat and Dani, cerritos beach - [And so it begins...](http://peregrinebynature.com/and-so-it-begins/) - 'A footpath for those who seek fellowship with the wilderness.' This is the season to simplify. - [An old book](http://peregrinebynature.com/an-old-book/) - in my old room, by light of the kerosene lantern. - [Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something](http://peregrinebynature.com/sometimes-you-get-up-and-bake-a-cake-or-something/) - sometimes you stay in bed -the national - [Desert rose](http://peregrinebynature.com/desert-rose/) - Beautiful Senegalese young woman in her village - [Attaya in Dakar](http://peregrinebynature.com/making-attaya-in-dakar/) - attaya is a senegalese tea taken in three rounds as a celebration of life and love and friendship - [On language](http://peregrinebynature.com/on-language/) - I long for the future of cyberpunk when I can lie back, plug in and upload a language program directly into my brain, a la the Matrix, or have a memory chip inserted like Hiro Protagonist. - [Beautiful Africa](http://peregrinebynature.com/831/) - Senegal, you have a beautiful smile. Alhamdulilaay. - [Beached](http://peregrinebynature.com/854/) - Beaching a pierog. - [Sunrise](http://peregrinebynature.com/sunrise/) - some days you love so hard your ribs hurt. - [](http://peregrinebynature.com/lost-boys/) - [Gorée island](http://peregrinebynature.com/goree-island/) - It's true that no man is an island. Islands are feminine. Isle de Gorée sits 1 kilometre off the coast of Dakar, 17 minutes by ferry boat. - [Desert sky](http://peregrinebynature.com/beneath-a-desert-sky/) - [The Last Battle](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-last-battle/) - A renegade soldier is loose in Goma and militants fire more rockets in the gaza strip and Russia still refuses to pull back. In Dakar we lose power, blacking out the peninsula from Point E to Almadies, and now is a good time to remember your physics, in this universe true darkness does not exist, - [fires on the road](http://peregrinebynature.com/fires/) - [You've been living in a dream world](http://peregrinebynature.com/this-is-the-matrix/) - This is the matrix. Wake up. - [Camouflage](http://peregrinebynature.com/camo/) - [Nescafe and marmalade](http://peregrinebynature.com/cafe-au-lait-and-marmalade/) - ah nescafe. - [Things are going to slide](http://peregrinebynature.com/slide/) - all is well in your comfortable life and you cannot sleep most nights. so you move closer to the equator where the sun and the struggle knocks you flat on your back like a fallen goliath and your alarm clock is the bustle of the street waking up and an occasional early dawn riot. - [No man is an island, entire of itself.](http://peregrinebynature.com/no-man-is-an-island-entire-of-itself/) - you avowed young that with suspiciously guarded land borders and territorial waters you could prove John Donne wrong. but you never anticipated pursuit from above. and so it begins... From this post: John Donne - [Come back to life.](http://peregrinebynature.com/goodmorning/) - by night you twist and turn and try not to dream and by day you haunt a house you can't breathe in, can't eat. but you're changing. - [Bridge to nowhere](http://peregrinebynature.com/bridge-to-nowhere/) - [This is my Africa.](http://peregrinebynature.com/this-is-my-africa/) - [you're the reason why](http://peregrinebynature.com/youre-the-reason-why-the-opera-is-in-me/) - [Mosqué liberty](http://peregrinebynature.com/mosquee-liberty/) - It is pre-dawn on a chill blue ocean and the mosque speakers come alive with a hiss and crackle and haunting call to prayer. Allah hu Akbar. Hayya ‘ala-l-falah, hayya ‘ala-l-falah. - [The sea makes treasure hunters of us all](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-sea-makes-treasure-hunters-of-us-all/) - sometimes you scan the horizon for your vanishing point and just dream - [Soumbédioune](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-port-of-soumbedioune/) - the fishing ships come in laden with buckets of fruits de mer and mermaid tails - [The night swoops down with fisted talons](http://peregrinebynature.com/night/) - when it leaves it tries to take something - [Red sea](http://peregrinebynature.com/red-sea/) - 'The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.' -nietzsche - [Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?](http://peregrinebynature.com/whos-gonna-drown-in-your-blue-sea/) - The ocean feeds without prejudice on the corrupt and the blameless and spits out bones and shells and sea glass. - [This is the dry season](http://peregrinebynature.com/this-is-the-dry-season/) - When the watering holes dry up and the plains begin to look Martian. - [Isle de N'Gor](http://peregrinebynature.com/isle-de-ngor/) - [Friendships and tea are best made slowly](http://peregrinebynature.com/you-cant-make-attaya-in-a-hurry/) - Take the west with all its time saving gadgets and falsely modest claims of the workaholic and see that it is yet unsatisfied, as empty as a vacuum. - [Senegal by sea](http://peregrinebynature.com/senegal-by-sea/) - [it is not known why whales get stranded](http://peregrinebynature.com/not-known-why-whales-get-stranded/) - fast arriving at where i might have been if it weren't for inept echolocation or the lure of cheap, shiny, barbed things or falling into that Ziguinchor brook and almost drowning. n'gor - [Twilight](http://peregrinebynature.com/sometimes-the-night-was-beautiful/) - [i wish i lived someplace slow](http://peregrinebynature.com/i-wish-i-lived-someplace-slow/) - i wish i lived off of red dirt roads. - [Africa the Beautiful](http://peregrinebynature.com/africa-the-beautiful/) - Tea keeps hunger off the mind. These are the lean times. - [Where is your heart?](http://peregrinebynature.com/where-is-your-heart/) - Me I'm a wanderer, but on the road home - [The road to Kedougou](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-road-to-kedougou/) - [Sleep comes like a drug](http://peregrinebynature.com/sleep-comes-like-a-drug/) - -Death Valley, CA - ['a bittersweet symphony, this life'](http://peregrinebynature.com/bittersweet-symphony/) - [All my life is goodbyes](http://peregrinebynature.com/all-my-life-is-goodbyes/) - -Joshua Tree - [Which road do I take?](http://peregrinebynature.com/which-road-do-i-take/) - "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter.” -Camano Island, WA - [on giraffes..](http://peregrinebynature.com/on-giraffes/) - taller than a fighter jet - [Hope](http://peregrinebynature.com/hope/) - to cherish a desire with anticipation Better get under cover, Sylvester. There's a storm blowin' up, a whopper. Just speakin' the vernacular of the peasantry. Poor little kid, I hope she gets home all right. (professor marvel in Wizard of Oz) trusting that we will all make it home all right - [Nanga def?](http://peregrinebynature.com/na-nga-def/) - [You walk by, and I](http://peregrinebynature.com/i-fall-to-pieces/) - fall to pieces Prince Edward Island, Canada - [Prince Edward Island](http://peregrinebynature.com/prince-edward-island/) - that colourful little land of ruby and emerald and sapphire --l.m. montgomery - ["But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons"](http://peregrinebynature.com/but-i-remember-more-dearly-autumn-afternoons/) - Chicago - [Je pense a toi](http://peregrinebynature.com/je-pense-a-toi/) - peregrine, sojourner, wanderer, alien: having a tendency to disappear one day maybe forever - [Leaving la paz](http://peregrinebynature.com/leaving-la-paz/) - The crew - [Earth, water and air](http://peregrinebynature.com/earth-water-and-air/) - the fire is in you Crater Lake, OR - [you always wake up new](http://peregrinebynature.com/you-always-wake-up-new/) - [The van](http://peregrinebynature.com/the-va/) - Reading on a sunday. - Olympic Peninsula, WA - [Daydream](http://peregrinebynature.com/daydream/) - Lumahai beach, Kauai - [Blue skies smilin' at me](http://peregrinebynature.com/blue-skies-smilin-at-me/) - Nothin' but blue skies do I see (Willie Nelson via Irving Berlin) Maha'ulepu Kauai - [Cause there's something about a sunday](http://peregrinebynature.com/cause-theres-something-about-a-sunday/) - Makes a body feel alone. listening to Johnny in Big Bend, CA - [So dawn goes down to day](http://peregrinebynature.com/so-dawn-goes-down-to-day/) - Nothing gold can stay. Seattle, WA - [Custom alarm clock](http://peregrinebynature.com/custom-alarm-clock/) - sailing with a cat - [Ceebu Yapp](http://peregrinebynature.com/ceebu-yapp-2/) - A famous Senegalese dish of rice and meat. - [Tea under the avocado tree](http://peregrinebynature.com/tea-under-the-avocado-tree/) - [Mbodiene](http://peregrinebynature.com/from-the-sea-to-the-table/) - A beautiful beach in Mbodiene outside of Dakar, Senegal. - [Kédougou Assiégée](http://peregrinebynature.com/kedougou-assiegee/) - in the south of senegal standing up for a promised future gets you a complimentary headshot in the local paper. sugar, fertilizer and TNT make an explosive cocktail in the middle east. as for me this foam mattress is cheap and there is no honey for my tea and i'm counting these as blessings. - [Why I blog about Africa](http://peregrinebynature.com/why-i-blog-about-africa/) - I blog about Africa because I was raised by one of her tribes. And because here things that are ragged are patched and cherished. Because sub Saharan thunderstorms are so deafening you have to believe in heaven. And mostly I blog about Africa because I want you to come, and fall in love. Thanks awfully - [urban camo](http://peregrinebynature.com/urban-camo/) - [erosion ](http://peregrinebynature.com/373/) - the moon endlessly orbits the beach pulling sand out to sea until one morning you wake up and the Atlantic is at your doorstep, asking for a cup of sugar and to sit for a while, chat about the weather. - [For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.](http://peregrinebynature.com/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass/) - metra from sleepy hollow to chicago, tres content - [A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies](http://peregrinebynature.com/a-new-life-awaits-you-in-the-off-world-colonies/) - On a rooftop in Dakar, where technology meets underdeveloped. - [Sun is coming up on the ocean](http://peregrinebynature.com/watercolor/) - you fall into bed nearly broken, the sorrows and victories of the day bittersweet on your tongue. but joy comes in the morning. - [So on the ocean of life we pass](http://peregrinebynature.com/564/) - Years later I still remember eyes that met mine on city streets and in museums, on car rapides and in the village. We're only souls poured into skin, I could have been anyone. - [The sea holds many secrets](http://peregrinebynature.com/secrets/) - [The Young Man and the Sea](http://peregrinebynature.com/young-man-and-the-sea/) - Sometimes we scare ourselves with our promise. The spirit within each of us. Sometimes I have to grip the ground to keep from jumping off. - [This is the story of how we begin to remember](http://peregrinebynature.com/541/) - This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein After the dream of falling and calling your name out These are the roots of rhythm And the roots of rhythm remain -Paul Simon - [See the world](http://peregrinebynature.com/704/) - Laundry day in a village outside of Dakar. - [Prone to wander](http://peregrinebynature.com/you-are-not-your-own-you-were-bought-at-a-price/) - city methodist church in gary, indiana. prone to wander, lord, i feel it. ## Pages - [About](http://peregrinebynature.com/about-peregrine-by-nature/) - slow travel, minimalism, living outdoors finding beauty in everything - [wall](http://peregrinebynature.com/wp-wall-guestbook/) ## Categories - [peregrine](http://peregrinebynature.com/category/peregrine/) - [cabin](http://peregrinebynature.com/category/cabin/)