Stepping away from the chatter is not easy. I ask, “are we addicted to information?” It comes cascading at a rapid rate, at best understood partially, without enough context, — via iphone, TV, laptop screen… One byte after another edited for our approval, or said clearly, for “consumption.” After sitting down to breakfast I…
Today is June 1st. June is the month of summer. Summer arrives in few days. Summer is prime time for plants, animals and all living things. Growth is at maximum velocity over the arc of June and the following two months. In the northern hemisphere, the tilt of the earth’s axis places us closer…
And you know that she’s half-crazy but that’s why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China… And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowersThere are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morningThey are…
Yesterday, a sunny Saturday on Memorial Day weekend. It’s uncertain that warm weather reaches the Midwest by late May. The weather is often “ify,” that is rainy, borderline cold, unpleasant. In the past a number of planned outings to Great Lakes Drag-a-Way on Memorial Day weekend were disappointed due to weather. Misery for me…
“Humanity’s pasthas been relatively brief:some 300,000 years as a species,a few thousand years of civilization.Its potential future, by contrast,could extend for billions of years,encompassing many trillions of sentient, rational beingsyet to be born.” The future – the adulthood of humanityis now in jeopardy. “If our species does destroy itself,”wrote Orville Schell, “it will bea…
Yesterday afternoon was spent at the Don Early Park in West Chicago. The park is tucked in beside and behind the cemetery right on East Washington Street. The feature of the park is a small pond. I would estimate the pond is about 50 yards or so in diameter. The pond is home to…
Yesterday was a day of wind and showers. These days of mid spring are fleeting and I did not want to delay taking pictures of flowers that I noticed in the neighborhood. I did my best given the wind to capture pictures of blooms along a white picket fence around the yard next door. …
Yesterday we returned to the Don Earley Park in West Chicago. A prominent feature of the park is the pond. The pond is open to catch and release fishing. Turtles can be seen sunning themselves close to the waters edge. Also there are a number of bullfrogs sitting in shallow water on the blanket…
Yesterday in the morning I took a walk in Braeburn Marsh. I returned at the end of the day, as the sun was setting. Luck is being at the right place at the right time. I feel lucky when I experience beauty, or a moment of extraordinary accomplishment. Venturing off the path, the ground…
The French term means “high sewing” or high fashion as the term is typically used. It is no disservice to the language, or to our intention of meaning to note there’s nothing more elegant than than bloom, shade of color, elegance of form as offered by Nature in the springtime. My thought was to…
