A Midwinter Day
by Philip Brady There were snowdrops in the graveyard today, First growth of the season, or maybe last. Nature has its own calculating way With calendar for future times…
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December 28, 2020
Agricultural Landscapes
by Bill Schlesinger A few years ago, in her wonderful book, The Seed Underground, Janisse Ray described the genetic homogenization of food crops. Three species (wheat, corn and rice) account…
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December 22, 2020
Equinox Joy
by Kevin T. McEneaney When there’s frost painted on nose, ice in toes, fingers split on many digits, can’t move, ice clinging to eyelids, beard, and nose hairs, ears screaming…
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December 16, 2020
An ear to rain and time
by Kevin T. McEneaney Sleeping with rainfall is a luxury to be savored like excellent coffee! Long ago, little could be accomplished when it rained: carve wood, make…
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December 7, 2020
Diapers: to change or not to change
by Bill Schlesinger Whether they are used on the very young or the very old, disposable diapers must be regarded as one of the most convenient products of modern society.…
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December 7, 2020
Plume Meditation on Machu Picchu
by Kevin T. McEneaney You don’t have to be Euclid to wonder at the proportions of rugged beauty that assault the eyes of the beholder at Machu Picchu in sunshine…
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November 25, 2020
Atrazine and Frogs
by Bill Schlesinger In 2002, a young Berkeley professor, Tyrone Hayes, reported that deformed frogs were most prevalent in farm ponds in counties across the United States where the herbicide…
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November 24, 2020
Let there be Light
by Kevin T. McEneaney Every red dawn is an experiment for you, your family, humanity, and the hero, as Homer once proclaimed. Every spider you meet during your day deserves…
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November 16, 2020
In tune with B
by Kevin T. McEneaney Listening to Beethoven in autumn with crumpling brown leaves wreathing my footsteps, I note November quality with strength— a master at his peak breathing wisdom into…
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November 10, 2020