This race for the presidency has reached a point where I need to be very clear with friends and family and any who reads this. What happened on Sunday night…
Here in Vermont the inevitable annual changes in our natural world are well underway. The sun, of course, drives them all with less solar energy reaching us due to shorter…
The winds came yesterday, not hurricane force, but clearly a change that comes with Fall weather here in Vermont—the trees, still mostly full of leaves, tracing it’s path. What doesn’t…
It can take only moments these days to find the peace of a good night’s sleep vaporized as the morning headlines scream at me from my screen. I’m not one…
The view from here last night of the partial lunar eclipse was beautiful. My photographs of same, not so beautiful! The web of life is always much better, of course,…
I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
The nearly full month since my last post has come and gone, first with travels and visits with family and then with a week of late nights absorbing the truly…
There are not enough pieces left to assemble anything useful, anything that resembles a memory. What is there is just enough to see myself long ago with dirty tears running…
I woke this morning wondering what Elon Musk dreamt last night. Then I found myself thinking about other, similar people—Murdoch, Trump, Bezos—people who have immense impact on millions and on…
I was born in 1948 into a wonderful family and into a world that was already a mess, one that was soon to become even more so. Yes, the horrors…
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