Road Kills
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in... See more
Alone Is Alone, Not Alive
You can tell because deer get bloated, don't know if that's a smell you really can get used to. Not like living on a dairy farm where you get used to it. Death has a smell all its own, it kind of lingers. — Shawn Kremsreiter
"I stopped being grossed out when I started getting hungry and thirsty. I had to eat. And this was the job that was available," Jackson said. "You got child support looking at you in the face. And after so long it just became natural to me. To pick up a deer or a raccoon or a skunk, it's natural. I know how to get it."
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Byron McCauley • Meet Danny Jackson, the man who cleans up roadkill from Cincinnati streets
look at texture of the road.
like the slant of light.
“One time I came back from a summer vacation and one of the landfill operators came over laughing,” Boeser said. “He goes, ‘I love it when you’re on vacation. Your son must have tried three times to get a deer off the carrier the other day. He threw up every time.’ ”
Patrick Varine • Roadkill deer collection not a job for the faint of heart — or stomach
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.