“While I’ve been living here, on and off, all my life, I’m still ignorant of the names of most of the sedges and grasses and trees around me. Spending time in nature produces, among other results, a general feeling of stupidity, constantly reminding you of the thousands of obvious facts you don’t know. I never …
Silence and Solitude
“A man on foot, on horseback or on bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” Edward Abbey -- Desert Solitaire I wanted to love Grand Canyon National Park but true confession, I did not. To write these words feels blasphemous. I believe …
Living with a Bit of Wild
Time spent with cats is never wasted. …
On Osprey Time
Two by two, and sometimes three, four, or five, they rose up from the ocean floor: horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, warrior-like in their armored, segmented shells. We humans, sixty-five strong, huddled around two naturalists as they turned over wriggling specimens (always by the shell, never by the tail) and pointed out compound eyes, bifurcated penises, bright blue eggs, and flukeworms in the gills. …
The Importance of Spring
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it." Howard Thurman I love this time of year. Sun shines in my window earlier and earlier waking me earlier and earlier. Birds flit and sing in the trees around our home. New life abounds. In the skies I look …
Writing the Wild 