The Polar Bear Conundrum It is spring again, and I am slinging my binoculars around my neck to look for warbler “fall outs," when The Hare, the House Finch and the Tardigrade In my recent blog about furry little Pitas and their trouble coping with rising temperatures, I wondered whether they might develop thinner coats in time to Nature Rising? My old friend Helen Klebesadel created this vision of "Nature Rising" in watercolor. "In this painting," she explains, "the flying crow Overheated Pikas and Leaping Lizards There is no question that global warming and habitat degradation have led to the decline of natural abundance, and that A Wren in Winter After Christmas's Baroque extravagance of gold and red and tinsel and splendid carols and Messiahs are over, the simplicity of Michigan's deep Our Darkest Hour Now the dark is upon us. The late afternoons are suddenly devoid of light, plunging our spirits into an ancient human fear that Has Anyone Ever Died For Lack of Gossip? I often asked myself this question when my soul shuddered down the mute corridors of my academic department, where a heavy silence always Hope in a Time of Climate Armageddon Dear Blog subscribers: This is my Press Release for The Battle For the Black Fen with a slightly different emphasis INFINITE GAMES, INFINITE HOPES I have always loved Geoffrey Chaucer's send off to Troilus and Criseyde: "Go, lytl book, go, litel myn tragedye" (go little A Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water There is a chapter in my (tattered and torn) Winnie the Pooh when it rains and rains and rains until Piglet FOG I have always loved the fog, especially after bright hot August days in Maine when it rolled in from the Atlantic and the Review: Nina Munteanu, Water Is…:The Meaning of Water Water Is...The Meaning of Water by Nina Munteanu. Pixel Press 2016 Are you fascinated by what goes on in the Battle Writing Of course there is a battle: this novel I am working on is called The Battle for the Black Fen. Midsummer, and the Living is Exciting By this time most summers, I expect my living to be easy - keeping up with my correspondence, a blog here and Rabbit Nests Now comes that time of year, midsummer approaching, when my sights turn from Niebuhrian incongruities, the capitalism/commons paradox and even Another Spring Poem Coming a close second to Gerard Manley Hopkins' spring poem I wrote about last week is e.e. cumming's #65 (he had an anarchistic Spring Poem I have always loved poetry, and I have always loved spring. Far and away my favorite poem in the world is Gerard Forest Bathing Have you heard about Shinrin - the Japanese practice of forest bathing? I have always known that Japanese people like to saunter The Corporate Monster Under the Bed When I was very little, I would wake in the middle of the night convinced that there was a monster under Tongue-tied in the Suburbs One white person talking with another seems so insignificant amid the vast historic racism in the United States, but I « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next »
