The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it …
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Possum: Caught in the Act
Upon discovering a very young, small possum raiding the cat’s food I am small I am fierce I will biteif you poke at meagain! I will gnash hiss snarl biteif you bother me,you Big! Snap hiss See my teeth? See my teeth?!keep back or I’llbite! bite! And turn off that bloody light!I’m a Creature ofthe Night!Small, …
The Song of Hungry Cats
(borrowing a tune from Les Miserables) Do you hear the kitties sing?singing the song of hungry cats–They are a feisty fetch of felineswho are hunting in the thatch!Do you hear the cats’ demand?Say, do you hear that hungry sound?If you’re a mouse, you’d better runor your life is done! Will you interrupt your sleep?Will you …
Tribalism is killing us.
It’s all very well to have your own tribe, to build it up and maintain it with your own beliefs and ideas about who you are and what is your relationship with your universe, your deities, the other people you share the world with. It is beautiful to celebrate your worldview with dances and art, …
footnote: Global Warming & Snowball Earth
Just today I have been watching LIFE ON OUR PLANET, a new documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman I surveys the origins and progression of life on Earth. It covers in far more detail, graced with Freeman’s compelling voice, some of the very same geologic history I presented in my essay here. I am tickled by …
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Binging Monsters
I finally got it, why I binge-watch crime shows. People love stories, not just for amusement, but to show us the way through the dark forest, the way through the terrible haunted swamp, the way to deal with monsters. Crime shows are stories about how the monsters are caught and stopped, how the monsters are …
“What is a ‘weekend’?”
My son said yesterday evening that he’d thought it was Monday all day. I told him to wait a bit, and it would be. But as it’s a federal holiday, in fact this week ‘Monday’ will not really be happening until Tuesday. So many things we take for granted, we forget they are not, in …
Travelblogue: The American West: Carlsbad Caverns
The experience of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico begins with a leisurely stroll down a paved path that descends over a mile from daylight into the perpetual night of one of most spectacular publicly accessible caverns in the world. I’ve been there three times now, the first as a child of 10, the second when …
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THE MAGIC HOUR a sonnet of art and age
Stare not at the Sun, we’re oft reminded,But in the Magic Hour, as the Poets tellEyes can gaze and be not blinded–The day’s work’s done, for good or ill. The Farmer comes home from the field,The Baker from the baking;The Vintner casks the final yield,The Maker ceases making… The Magic Hour, the Artist cherishes–The Hour …
DUNE 2021
Yesterday we saw the new DUNE, another great story of the coming of a messiah… Or is he? That’s the question on everyone’s mind in the story. And if he is, then whose messiah is he? It was, of course, spectacular, also beautifully made, and over two and a half hours long. It is clearly labeled Part …
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