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    Angela Sun: Thanks for the Documentary

    September 14, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Basically, people think there's a giant patch of trash out in the Pacific Ocean that's all glued together, like nylon, that you can step on and walk all over. It's actually scarier...

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    Rare Air Episode 4: Fort Flagler State Beach

    September 1, 2014 - By Roger D.

    The day was sunny and warm in monumental ways… so that the vacation seemed to have turned over a new leaf.

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    Rare Air Episode 3: Kalaloch Beach

    August 3, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Kalaloch Beach, captured June 16, 2014.

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    Rare Air Episode 2: Quinault Rain Forest

    July 5, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Time in nature = sacred saturation.

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    Rare Air Episode 1: Shoshone National Forest

    June 10, 2014 - By Roger D.

    I hope you'll find something inspiring and perhaps somehow educational in these videos, and that some additional aspects of the world may find you through them.

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    Sep. 24, 2012: Granny’s Little Creek

    June 10, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Often less than a trickle, that creek was a haven of life to us kids.

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    May 27, 2014: Lucky fool

    May 27, 2014 - By Roger D.

    make any move you can - we all soon disappear.

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    March 26, 1988: Grandpa’s Gold

    March 30, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Today I went looking through my writing archives to find something written on or near this date in the past, and I found a poem written about 24 years and a week ago. It’s not particularly great nor too profound, but it does connect me with an important moment going even further back, to a golden day spent with my grandfather, Urban Lee Ridings. The day was sunny and warm, I remember, and I must have been somewhere around five or so. Grandpa instructed me to go and shake his money tree, and I could still walk you right to…

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    Randy Baker: On Location

    January 12, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Along with my mentor and dear friend Randy Baker (above left, and that’s me on the right), I am very proud to announce the release of our book, “Randy Baker: On Location” by yours truly. It’s available now in Softcover, Hardcover and Digital editions with no markup: http://blur.by/1crueUG Thank you very much for taking a look and for any support and feedback. This book is a collaboration between television producer/director/videographer Randy Baker and publisher, press agent, writer and producer Roger Darnell. When you search the Internet Movie Database for Randy, you will find him listed as a director of photography,…

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    Nov. 21, 1998: Character

    November 17, 2013 - By Roger D.

    In November of 1998, Beth and I were living in our Barrington Way townhome in Glendale, California, which hosted us and our cats nicely enough through a very exciting and challenging time. Going back to Arc of the Poet, that was our critical California move in the so-called “Fame and Fortune” era. While I was extremely thankful at that time to have landed on the staff of Crest National in Hollywood, my film industry dreams were still very personal, and I pressed on to the best of my abilities on every front. Externally, I continued to “swing for the fence”…

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