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This is where I’ll be this evening…letting this beauty in. Thanks for reminding us, Maria W! Pretty Sky Alert 02.26.2009 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list February 26, 2009: Be careful, this sort of thing can cause an accident! On Friday evening, Feb. [...]
“Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game,” –President elect Obama, early January 2009 Scott Tissue is the brand that 50 years ago my mother taught me was the most economical and used less trees. 3 sheets, folded, do the trick. She said it wasn’t as [...]
‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ Viktor Frankl This post is a response to Christine over at Abbey of the Arts, who hosts Poetry Party twice a month. Since this is the week of Ash Wednesday, the topic for the week is ‘ashes to ashes’. She invites anyone to post poetry or reflections [...]
I’d give half of my kingdom, as they say, to see this sight… Thanks to Canadian friend Nadia B. for sending this our way. Mass Migration of Stingrays Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as [...]
Make sure to watch this youtube video on ‘The (so-called) Lost Generation’ all the way to the end–it is profoundly hopeful. Those born totally of post-modernity face special risks and bring potential gifts we can’t fathom. Thanks to my friend Carl McColman over at Anamchara: the website of unknowing for the link. If you’re having [...]
‘Stay awake, friends. Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of staying awake.’ –Rumi Most North Americans think food shortages or famine are something that only happen in Africa and Asia. How could such catastrophe happen to us? Easy. What with the drought in California’s Central Valley (see Drought Adds to Hardships in California), [...]
Submission for this week’s One Single Impression prompt: twilight. Twilight. Just hours before the final sleep We love. He visits, still, in my dreams to remind me. Josh, beloved black German Shepherd, 11.5 years old Labor Day, 2005. We put him down the next day. He rode in the back of the pickup to the [...]
Thanks to Adele for always sending challenging things to think about. This week’s humbling submission is an interactive map of the middle-east and northern Africa. You ‘just’ have to click and drag the names of the countries to their rightful place, and they fit in like puzzle pieces. I’ve always enjoyed history, geography and even [...]
Sadu in the Garden On Saturday February 7, 2009 a massive bushfire swept through the picturesque town of Marysville in Victoria, Australia. The bushfires, annual by nature, have spread over a huge region and although now are considered contained have been especially devastating this year, causing at least 209 deaths as of February17th. Arson is [...]
Joe Bageant is a prophet, anarchist, flame-eating die-hard Vietnam era veteran–angry, hard-bitten almost-curmudgeon, with a lot of hard-won wisdom, just like I like ‘em. According to his website, Joe died in 2000 when W. was elected but hopes to rise again after W’s back in Texas or where ever. I trust when Joe Resurrects he [...]
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