How to Fear a Thing and Do It Anyway
On snakes, resistance, and finding joy on the other side
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5 min readJul 15, 2021
Last fall, I was the writer-in-residence at the Dobie Paisano ranch in Texas Hill Country. And one major features of the Dobie Paisano ranch is its snake-filled-ness. Chock full o snakes. In one of the old accounts of the ranchland contributed by one of its former residents, who grew up there, there were so…
