Touching the Elephant

Touching the Elephant

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I. It All Started With a Pebble
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
52
Ode to Okjokull Glacier
A Sunday Poem
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Kendall Lamb
21
An Unfinished Thing
A Sunday Poem
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Kendall Lamb
37
XX. Daisy Chains and Dead Ducks
A memoir in animal encounters
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Kendall Lamb
36
What I Really Want to Do
A Sunday Poem
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Kendall Lamb
98
A Letter From Denali
(To anyone who has ever loved a place with all their heart.)
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Kendall Lamb
52
Root Bound
Breaking the containers that bind us
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Kendall Lamb
43
The Squid and the Moon
A break. A bit of flash.
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Kendall Lamb
32
XIX. Bare Feet and Broken Teeth
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
35
XVIII. Toppling Giants
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
17
XVII. The Ruthless Egalitarianism of Hippos
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
30
On Mothering and Writing
A much-needed weekly pause
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Kendall Lamb
31
XVI. You Don't Have to Try So Hard
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
24
XV. The Mouse and the Boogieman
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
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Kendall Lamb
33
Touching the Elephant
Touching the Elephant
Weaving together seemingly incongruent truths, one animal story at a time. It all belongs.
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