Continue Reading This Bunch or That? It is the season for bunches, bands and batches, swaths and clusters of flowers in the meadows. Yesterday’s photographic harvest was mostly common…
Continue Reading Naming “If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.” — Confucius. ——————————- ’Tis but thy name that is…
Continue Reading Where next? This week I reported on the willingness of large swaths of the population to blind themselves against the facts of science for…
Continue Reading More Musings from under the Butterfly Bush Might as well continue where we left off Monday – free associating under the butterfly bush. Today’s photographic subject are the butterflies feeding…
Continue Reading Defying the Laws of Gravity Todays’ blog is brought to you by my garden’s hummingbirds. Now that the Buddleia is in bloom they are regular visitors. It…
Continue Reading See to it! “Ach Gottchen,”(Ohhhh, little God) my mother would cry when I’d appear tear-streaked in the door. Not clear if the diminutive name of…
Continue Reading No good guys. None. “So who are the good guys?,” my Beloved asked. “What do I know,” was my response, having only vague associations with Haiti,…
Continue Reading Citizen Informants Esther Bejarano z”l, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz’s girl orchestra, died this weekend at age 96. A life-long fighter for…
Continue Reading Here. Not Here. In the two previous blogs I wondered about ways to predict the future and ways to remember the past. So it seems…
Continue Reading (S)elective History I’m coming back to the topic of truthful accounting of history because it matters. Any form of society that wants to function…
