The Winter of Our Discontent?
My mood elevates, despite the automotive din, as a few chickadees and titmice arrive to greet me from nearby branches.
My mood elevates, despite the automotive din, as a few chickadees and titmice arrive to greet me from nearby branches.
As soon as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi announced the initiation of an impeachment inquiry into the actions of President Donald Trump, the RCC signed on in support of a pro-impeachment rally.
“Many children…delight in the tiniest things” – Rachel Carson
The antidote to our rush to destruction and hate, Carson believed, was in developing empathy and love for all living things.
The climate crisis, like the threat of nuclear war at the height of the Cold War, needs a rallying cry, and it needs action — fast. 05-14-19
This winter, when it was often cold and rainy, I watched with delight as robins hopped and jumped and dangled from the small branches of my backyard holly tree to get to and gobble its small clusters of bright red-orange berries. 03-11-19
As the first snow flurries begin to fall, I rush to put out extra seed in my yard. Within seconds, a junco appears beneath the feeders, as if beamed in from Canada. 01-14-19
My close observation of the details of asters — call it a fixation or fascination if you will — has allowed me to find out a number of things as I took breaks from my equally obsessive attention to this year’s critical election. 11-11-18
Environmentalists have been playing desperate defense since the 2016 election brought a trifecta of right-wing, anti-environmental, indeed, anti-progressive forces to power. 08-20-18
We have headed somewhere north in summer for many years – in search of loons and moose and nesting warblers, and cool breezes, as we kayak or canoe where eagles soar and you need a campfire beneath the stars. 07-14-18