Category Archives: A Changing Planet

A Spoonful of Goobers

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

My father loved peanuts.  Salted in the shell & generous shmears on saltines.  Spanish in the can were a special treat.  Peanut aroma dominates my memories of bedtime hugs, family camping trips to Dinkey Creek, Saturday afternoons around our SoCal pool. … Continue reading →

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Believing in Gravity

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

My latest meditation image is of the Sun viewed from about the location of Jupiter.  In my imagination-meditation, I see our home star as a bright speck, brighter than the other stars but clearly one of them, not owned or … Continue reading →

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Skyfall Happens

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

I happened to glance skyward during dinner on the outside deck @ Paradise Grill a few weeks ago & noticed a brilliant dropping blue flare in the western sky, thinking it was some kind of failed fireworks.  Turns out it was our … Continue reading →

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5 Million Years on Kauai

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

I’m sure this will come as no news to all you Kauaiophiles: it feels nearly impossible to enthusiastically plunge back into daily life – whatever & wherever & however satisfying it may be – after a few days on the Garden Isle. … Continue reading →

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Spinning in the Wind

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

By now the images are familiar: satellite shots of monster hurricane Sandy bearing down on the northeastern U.S. seaboard & scenes of cars floating like ice cubes in dirty floodwaters.  We all do what we can when the wind comes…move … Continue reading →

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Savoring Sunlight

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

It seems that the taste of fall sensed early in August is already setting the table for Thanksgiving – the equinox this year was a spot on marker of our earth’s annual cycle around the Home Star.  Fall has already dropped heavily … Continue reading →

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When Sluggish Is Good

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

Slugs have a bad rap…uh, sorta deservedly.  Have you ever gotten up in the middle of the night, sleepily wandering to the kitchen to look at the waning moon or pour yourself a glass of water, when aacck!~ you step … Continue reading →

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E.T. Come Back!

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

Science fiction was my reading of choice for more than a decade – during college & thereafter until the kiddies happened into our lives.  Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov…I thought there was no … Continue reading →

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When Continents Collide

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

I wish I could recall the exact moment when I first got plate tectonics - it seems to me now that understanding the unfixed nature of things is the basis of so much human knowledge about this planet we live on, &, … Continue reading →

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Bats in Portland

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

Don’t worry, this isn’t about the Dark Knight.  Well, maybe it is about the dark night & the bats that may come with it.  Have you ever really thought about bats??  I hadn’t. I took a much-needed 4-day mini-vacation in … Continue reading →

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