What is Precious?
This post evolved from several unrelated events . . . connected only by the meaning I assigned to them. I watched Pirate Radio, a fictional account of a pirate radio ship broadcasting off the coast of...
View ArticleLessons of the Totem Animals
Years ago, I found a book on animal totems — after pulling an all-nighter with a Navajo friend who clued us in to the shamanistic roots of animal guides and animal medicine. In this Native American...
View ArticleThe Being versus the Getting
"Tell me -- why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to be able to perceive one moment of reality? I mean, is Mount Everest more real than New York? Isn't New York real?" [read the full post...
View ArticleThe Old Things Go, Not One Lasts
Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the...
View ArticleTemporarily Absent and in Transition
The Quark is neglected and in need of some care. A personal move and multiple transitions got the best of my writing and photographing paws this month. Soon come . . . as Peter Tosh would say. In the...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Disclose Wildlife Locations
You may have noticed that with many of my posts, I describe the location of my photos in most general terms. There’s a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with hoarding a choice photography spot....
View ArticleThe Benefits of Anthropomorphism
If you work with or care about animals, the nonhuman ones, eventually, someone will say something like, “shouldn’t you care more about what happens to people?” That question doesn’t faze me anymore....
View ArticleThe Hierarchy of Disagreement
I came upon this graphic the other day, illustrating the Hierarchy of Disagreement — with seven stages of argumentation based on the Paul Graham essay, How to Disagree. Excerpt: If we’re all going to...
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