Continue Reading Parochialism Let me end this week devoted to issues of discrimination and how to combat them by looking at a recent scientific experiment…
Continue Reading In Perpetuity One of the sources of racism as well as one of the consequences of racism is segregation between the races. Segregation has…
Continue Reading Resilience My focus this week is on strength in the face of an onslaught of discrimination. What better opportunity to re-introduce some of…
Continue Reading The Aftermath The National Center for PTSD estimates that 28 percent of people who have witnessed a mass shooting develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and…
Continue Reading Strength It is probably safe to assume that we are all reeling from the news of the weekend, the mass murder inflicted on…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Chachalu – Place of Burnt Timber Some days are more surprising than others. Yesterday was one of them. Through a series of misunderstandings and unanticipated cancelation of a…
Continue Reading Go On Every green room of the forest planted:Trillium and quince, alder and salmonberry, …—Robert Sund You could go on, I know—green room to green…
Continue Reading Who owns tomorrow? During a walk at Jackson Bottom, a nature preserve in Washington County, I learned that two of the three osprey fledglings I…
Continue Reading Lilies galore Out and about in Washington County, I saw signs at the side of the road advertising a Lilyflowerfest – “the only one…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge 5:The Alchemist “Alchemy – noun : a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.” (Merriam-Webster) The English word alchemy…
