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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

thank you for your interest!! i will be happy to share the drawing with you if i can capture what i am after. here’s a draft of the backcover… the book is called, the backcountry. does this make you want to lace up your boots? 🌲

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

if i put any image on the cover of the book that i am almost done writing, it will be me drawing a sheet of a trail disappearing into the woods. the book is a very long metaphor for hiking a trail, and writing it has been a lot like hiking a beautiful trail, with surprises around every turn.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i love trails that disappear into the woods…

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i have spent a lot of time in the backcountry and that is wild, man. 🌍

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Jenny: I wish I could've been there with you. Forrest: You were. ____ thank you for all the fabulous pictures and quotes!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

totally agree. trade deals are very complex. i just narrowed the subject to try to make a point. i was in a mood and tried to actually engage in a policy discussion. i like policy not politics. of course, trump was not negotiating in good faith. his admin is deranged. cheers!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh well. i guess this isn’t the thread for a deeper discussion. cheers! ✌️

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i only have one of these little furry angelic beings. caring for three of them is a dream. thank you for sharing your adventures together with us!!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

umm, of course, every country has the right to protect its food supply. I am pro-Canada, but is guarding the unfilled part of a 3.5% slice of the dairy market worth a trade war? #never51

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think you meant: “the us has never *exported* enough dairy to canada to trigger the tariff”, hey? this is how i would probably summarize it. 🇨🇦✌️

Canada protects its dairy sector with "supply management": controlled domestic production and prices, plus tight limits on imports. Before 1995, Canada limited dairy imports with outright quotas. The 1995 WTO agreement required converting such quotas into tariff-rate quotas, with a finite volume at low tariff. A set volume can enter at zero or low tariff, and anything above it faces tariffs of roughly 250% or more. Yet the 250% tariff has never actually been paid, because U.S. exports have never exceeded the quota. The dispute is about the quota, not the tariff.
Canada’s "supply management" system dates to the early 1970s, and neither the 1988 Canada-US trade agreement nor NAFTA removed it. In recent deals Canada has opened more quota: about 1.3% of its dairy market to EU cheese (CETA), 3.25% to Pacific Rim countries (CPTPP), and about 3.5% exclusively to the U.S. under USMCA, which Trump signed in his first term. Together, that brings tariff-free imports to roughly 10% of the Canadian dairy market once fully phased in by 2031.
The core problem is that the U.S. says it can't even fill the 3.5% quota — one analysis found just 42% of the 3.5% quota was used in 2022-23. The U.S. blames how Canada hands out the licenses. Canada assigns them to importers, and U.S. exporters say most licenses go to Canadian dairy processors, who compete with the products being imported, while retailers and food-service companies get little or none. The U.S. argument is that an importer who also sells domestic dairy has little reason to bring in competing U.S. product, so the importers don't actually import up to the non-tariffed cap. This is likely why Trump started a trade war with Canada, because the USMCA that he signed did not close this loophole that Canada has used to protect its farmers since at least the 1970s.
Is it smart? Even if the quota protects Canadian dairy farmers, I doubt it's worth the risk of a broader trade war with collateral damage on both sides. The USMCA quota gi…

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

love your pictures!! i just drove the ALCAN south and caught a priceless moment where a young black bear mom was grazing on the side of the road in the evening. and the mom saw us before her cub, and the level of adoration the cub had towards the mom was powerful soul thunder. 💘

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

that looks like a sweet little home for lots of critters 😍

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wow!! wolves are incredible!! seeing a dog laying on a log seems odd to me. it’s more cat like in my mind. did you figure out who s/he was calling for…?

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

on the way to the glacial basins of the upper watershed in the high country of the Talkeetna range. known to settlers as the Hatcher Pass/Reed Lakes mining district, north of Palmer, AK.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look down. There, scattered across the teeming alpine sphagnum is the geranium. Each unique crimsoning snowflake like fallen stars forged in a brief autumn. They only ask you slow down until you see how each leaf is an unhurried doorway, reminding you that you belong… in this faërie haven. #poem

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TheRobotz were swank’n at 203 Kombucha’s Palooza in Palmer today!!! And the Moose Spruce booch was flowing once again!!! ✨🌲 This is my happy place: where making a new friend is as easy as saying hello. ✌️ #TheRobotz #203Kombucha #AlaskaMusic #MatSu #LiveMusic

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the colder it gets in anchorage, the windier it gets on little mount susitna. the railbelt needs wind power — in winter, when demand is highest. pumped storage hydro makes eklutna lake a battery, with a path for the fish to climb. the wind carries the river's tune. #RestoreEklutnaRiver #windpower

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Eklutna lake, within the homeland of the Dena’ina Athabascan people, the K’enaht’ana. The river was dammed in 1955. A river is a conversation between the mountain and the sea — every salmon was a letter the sea wrote to the forest. The forest waits until the river sings again. #RestoreEklutnaRiver

picture of turquoise eklutna lake with snowy mountain peaks buried in misty clouds on the far shore and trees wearing fall yellow leaves framing the left side of the image, and curvaceous rocky shore on the near shore.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bella exploring an off trail alaskan pond in the beautiful nancy lake state park. i love how quiet this land is as as most people pass it by on the way to Denali. #happydog 🐾

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

powerful words to live by🔥 thank you 🌀🐣🦋🌱🐞🐾 ✨

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

😍🤯 but how are the closer clouds that color with the background clouds being those colors!?! amazing!!! i’m an old hippie these days, but in my younger days i was called sittingcloud by my rainbow brothers and sisters. thanks for sharing your beautiful pic!✌️

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social I have added a reference to you both (see image) in my upcoming book that I am wrapping up. Also highlighting the @debtcollective.bsky.social. Thank you for your leadership on this issue!

103 The structural shift from isolated survival to collective economic refusal is the governing framework of modern abolitionist financial movements. In Debt Collective: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020), published collectively under the group’s name, the authors argue that predatory debt relies on a manufactured illusion of isolation—the myth that financial strain is a private moral failure rather than an engineered mechanism of systemic extraction. Co-founded by organizer and filmmaker Astra Taylor alongside economic anthropologist Hannah Appel, the movement emerged from Occupy Wall Street's Strike Debt initiative, born from the realization that while an isolated debtor is powerless, millions of debtors organized together have power over the financial system. Debt is only an instrument of control so long as it keeps us separated; the moment debtors unite, power shifts from the creditor to the union. The movement flips the fundamental rule of banking on its head: if you owe the bank $10,000, the bank owns you; but if ten million people owe the bank $100 billion, the debtors have leverage over the bank. Just as the susu or tanda transforms individual scarcity into communal capital outside the corporate banking apparatus, debtor unions aggregate individual liabilities into a collective strike, turning what the market intended as a chain of bondage into a weapon of structural leverage. Debt, in this framework, ceases to be a solitary weight written into the biological ledger of the individual; when pooled, it becomes a site of distributed agency—the collective withholding of consent that forces financial institutions to absorb the cost of their own enclosure.

104 This internal erosion among the hyper-privileged parallels Naomi Klein’s observation that "extreme wealth has a deranging effect." In End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World (2026), co-authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor examine how unbridled a…

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yum! i wish i knew how to identify them better. they are everywhere around the nancy lake area right now! looking forward to your upcoming posts!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Love this. I wonder if the ancient urge behind sacred stones and pilgrimages is about shedding ego… Walking the untamed backcountry does that for me: the path becomes the prayer, dissolving separation until my body tunes into the environment's frequency.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

beautiful pic! i love the swans! i haven’t seen a beluga yet. need to keep my eye out for them.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

beautiful!! i have missed munching on all the wild berries, greens and fungal flowers on that lovely island. ✨ thanks for bringing the warmth of this picture into my chilly, alaskan-morning bones.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i’m writing a book, and added a reference to her in my epilogue. thanks for this image. i’m sending to my parents. we saw her and kenny in concert once in the 80s. 🥹

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

awesome pic! it’s both a sweet face and a hilariously LARGE backside! 🤣

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

two months is painful!!! glad u2 are reunited!! now you get to have adventures and spoil each other!!!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

i am happy you are still with us and sharing your thoughts on life. tomorrow isn’t guaranteed to any of us, which fuels my quest to find the trail magic that is hidden all around me — especially in the people i meet. sending you positive energy from the kenai river!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

yes, see my response in a chat.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

as always, my day is better having read your post.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

bella says hi to bleu from woods nearish to talkeetna

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i am staying in an amazing log cabin in the #alsaka woods with a serious supply of high quality kombucha from the ‘203 kombucha’ bar in palmer where you can fill up 64oz growlers with delicious boutique flavors. the bar is a fantastic local vibe where making friends is as easy as saying hello! ✌️

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

i came to #alaska for the mountains but after a few months here, its real beauty is its people. the culture is unlike the lower 48. people here showup and participate. they don’t let worry about being great stop them. the priority is being part of the community. it’s deeply wonderful!!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

bella and i exploring a little stream between two lakes in the woods southeast of talkeetna. when we arrived, two happy otters and some ducks were enjoying this remote spot. they beauty of #alaska is so much more than its breathtaking mountains…

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

the civil rights movement and historical boycotts worked because people moved collectively. this is the structural leverage that montgomery used on the bus lines. it’s about what you subsidize with your money and attention. 🙏

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love your feed IG! I haven’t been online much this summer because I have decided to write a book! 🤓 it has been a fantastic voyage! aaaand, i’m sharing this b/c writing this book has taught me how to sleep better after being a lifelong poor sleeper! curiously, it’s all about our mitochondria.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

fantastic writing!! and i learned several new insights that i will be thinking about for years. thanks for publishing this! many thanks to dr. robles for sharing her many gifts with the world.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

congrats dr story! you sound like a force for good in the world. i am going to seek out your writing and learn more about the insights you have gained. hope this new day treats you wonderfully well.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

great article! I’m always amazed by the mallow/malvaceae family! linden trees are close cousins to hibiscus flowers, okra, cacao, and cotton!! yet, they all behave so differently…

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

very cool! i just research the bergman foundry and learned a lot. thank you for sharing this!

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

thank you for this article. i did not know her story. my heart goes out to her family.

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

a magenta firework frozen as a pom-pom. a mid-air soul barely tethered to the earth my eyes water with joy at a lifetime of beauty released for one triumphant moment a spiritual intervention— impossible to miss, even for those who aren’t looking

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

beautiful picture and narrative summary! thought you might like this similar post, MJM. bsky.app/profile/wook...

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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

whoa! i did a summer internship in yellowstone the summer of 1996 high in the backcountry. i joined several grizzled usgs veterans and some biologists to study the water quality of the alpine lakes as a baseline for air pollution. it lasted ~3 weeks. one of my best experiences ever!!

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