Continue Reading Enlightening Legos Having written almost enough to fill a weekly quota on Monday, I figured today I’ll share someone else’s observations – conveniently offered…
Continue Reading Call for a Commons: New Directions at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum “History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough, American historian (1933- 2022) *** I’m curious: how…
Continue Reading Seeing Red Last night I watched a movie, Tár, Todd Field’s 2022 film starring Cate Blanchett (fabulous performance) as a famous female conductor whose…
Continue Reading Double Standards. On days when I cannot control the chaos in my brain, I sometimes turn to my desk drawer and tend to the…
Continue Reading Stardust “There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.” – Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, 1584. JUNE 9th, 2023 was…
Continue Reading Phantom Forests Walk with me. This time on the northern side of the Columbia River, at Catherine Creek. It is a beautiful short loop…
Continue Reading Ecocide In February 2022, Russia blockaded Ukraine’s Black Sea ports through which all Ukrainian bulk exports were being shipped, part of an ongoing…
Continue Reading Of love and revenge. Alternatively, today’s musings could be titled “Of avenging orcas and lesbian gulls.” Orcas: by now you have probably heard that parts of…
Continue Reading A Lover of the Meadows and the Woods… …Therefore am I stillA lover of the meadows and the woods,And mountains; and of all that we beholdFrom this green earth; of…
Continue Reading Dispatches from the Battle of the Balcony Cast of Characters: Squirrel(s) the king and queen. Steller’s Jays the bishops. Attack: Crows the rooks. Pigeons the Knights. The rest – junkos and…
