They smell bad, they are gummy and sticky, and they may even hide dangerous animals. However most of…
Planet Earth has always operated within limits — almost like an organism. But too there have…
BELOW: Rhus trilobata (lemonberry sumac)
by SeedGal, seedgal.com — all rights reserved June 21, 2017
Drought increases the risk of fire, but so does rain.
After five years of drought, we all prayed to the rain gods to do their worst. The rains came, but it won’t be the end…
I am the last member of my family to live in a cooler world.
Precarious
As is my usual routine I took my dog Cosmo out for our walk to the mailbox yesterday. Along the way I had a thought about the precariousness of our existence on Earth. We live in this sort of illusion as our daily life is wrapped in an assumption of stability. For the most part our human brains encounter the same…