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Lateral thinking during #100DaysUke2024
As February approaches (on this snowy Sunday morning), I thought it might be a good idea to pencil out a journal entry regarding the upcoming 100-DayProject2024. This project is a world-wide effort, open to anyone so inclined, to focus on … Continue reading
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Thoughts about essays
Essays are all about understanding… the world around us, the past, searching for meaning, and simply discovery in its own right. Much has been written about essays, but here I want only to make two points: 1) that the word essay … Continue reading
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Flying Lessons
Early one morning the crisp fall air crackled with the voices of a thousand birds announcing their arduous southward journey. Though some will not return, go they must. And so sweet pre-dawn songs of homesteading had given way to the … Continue reading
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That White Christmas Song
A holiday mashup by Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. They are a Texas Swing band under the auspices of the bluegrass band Hot Rize. The recording is available on Sugar Hill’s “Sugar Plums” collection of holiday songs. This particular song … Continue reading
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I’ll Be Home for Christmas
This is one of my favorite holiday songs. Written by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent, recorded more than 80 years ago in 1943 by Bing Crosby. Many have recorded (covered) this song since, and one of my favorite renditions is the … Continue reading
Nature journal entries summer 2020
June 22, 2020: So far no Monarch butterflies have been spotted in our home gardens. Plenty of cabbage whites, a few painted ladies a couple weeks back, and a tiger swallowtail. Very wet spring, especially June, but now it’s turning … Continue reading
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Advice for nature-watchers
Advice for nature-watchers (with notes for butterfly enthusiasts): The most important thing about venturing out is being patient and observant. Rushing is almost always counterproductive. The main idea is to connect with … Continue reading
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Ladybug Hill
I awoke one September day with autumn in my blood. The academic year had just begun with its comfortable, addictive commotion –anxious, hormonally charged faces, the smell of new books, the ring of cash registers, and the chatter of new … Continue reading
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The naturalist mind
Many people trudge through life and miss a great deal of wonder and satisfaction that is right at their fingertips. As Proust observed, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Nature … Continue reading
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