Obligatory snow photo Last Wednesday in this almost nonexistent winter that seemed, a couple weeks ago, to decide on spring and turned warm and sunny enough to encourage Silver Maple to bloom, buds on shrubs to swell, the tulips to pop up, and the rhubarb to begin to poke their prehistoric looking crimpy leaves to …
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And We Walked in Fields of Gold
Well, maybe not walked, more like crawled. And not exactly a field, more like a grassy park area next to picnic tables. There was a field adjacent, a baseball field belonging to an elementary school. Gold though, there was plenty of gold. We caught peak dandelion. Within less than half an hour, we had filled …
Car-free
The other day Bill McKibben posted an essay on his blog titled Inertia is a problem too in which he says: But there’s another force at work alongside Interest [Big Oil, etc.,], and that’s Inertia, defined as the force that has kept you from, say, ever cleaning the coil on the bottom of your fridge, …
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. It breaks my heart that there even is such a day, but that is what cars have done to this world. While car crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States among people aged 1-54, it is not just a U.S. problem. …
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A Stone in the River 