Tag Archives: human primate

Burn4: Cooking with Fire

Posted on September 10, 2013 by liveoaklinda

Can you imagine camping without campfires & grilled meat?  No, me neither.  Like, what’s the point of packing the tent & all the gear if there’s no flickering in the firepit as that lovely star of ours sinks flaming into … Continue reading →

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My Sore Tongue

Posted on September 3, 2013 by liveoaklinda

I’ve spent a lifetime biting my tongue – I realize this may come as a surprise to some of you.  Well, maybe not a lifetime…I was a kid once, long ago it seems.  I’ve been observing this socialization process with … Continue reading →

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Burn2: Burning the Fence

Posted on August 6, 2013 by liveoaklinda

We humans lead complicated lives.  It’s the way we like it.  It’s what our large primate brain has been honed for.  It’s just that, well – it’s just that sometimes it’s so exhausting. I can grasp (& I’m sure you can … Continue reading →

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Burn1: As the Bed Burns

Posted on July 2, 2013 by liveoaklinda

Way back (!) in 2006, I started collecting news articles about melting glaciers, acid oceans, scary wildfires, & devastating floods.  I (& of course a few others) felt that we (humans, collectively) weren’t paying enough attention to the ever-increasing evidence … Continue reading →

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Neandertals Are Us

Posted on June 20, 2013 by liveoaklinda

When you’re a human evolution nerd like I am, you need to be discriminating about the source of your information.  It’s sometimes eye-rolling how big media hears about some kind of research or fossil discovery & immediately morphs it into … Continue reading →

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Bonobos & Apatheists

Posted on May 27, 2013 by liveoaklinda

I just finished Frans de Waal’s book “The Bonobo & the Atheist”.  The premise is that we derive our ‘community concern’, empathetic, altruistic & cooperative nature from our mammal & primate heritage, not from human-imagined religion.  Uh, duh. An enthusiastic storyteller … Continue reading →

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Poppy’s Playlist

Posted on March 19, 2013 by liveoaklinda

I took a piano class last Friday night – R was out of town & I actually got myself out of the house & over to our beloved local community college for Todd Walker‘s famous workshop Piano Your Teachers Never … Continue reading →

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Turning a Corner on Time

Posted on January 2, 2013 by liveoaklinda

It’s Day 2 of the New Year.  2013 is already strengthening its foothold, but I still chirp “happy new year” at the beginning of each sentence.  You’ll hear me say this for at least another week…as long as I can … Continue reading →

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Longer Than You Think

Posted on November 26, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Have you noticed that whatever the project, it takes longer than you think?  Uh, like, much longer.  Never, ever shorter.  Definitely not your usual bell curve of averages. Especially at this time of year, it seems.  I (thankfully) didn’t host … Continue reading →

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Maybe It Was The Sashimi…

Posted on November 16, 2012 by liveoaklinda

…as in fish, not fauna, that nudged our ancestors of 2 million years ago (already striding on their highly-functional feet) along the path toward larger & more complex brains. Granted, they probably didn’t enjoy succulent hamachi like we do today (no … Continue reading →

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