The smaller of the two creeks, just beyond town (and soon to be enveloped by it), is running full and strong again after a few good storms. One almost forgets…
nature
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From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…
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“The more things change the more they stay the same” is a saying rooted and rotted in human nature. The question is, is human nature really immutable, or is it…
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There was a time, not so long ago, when there was space for the individual to be different, and to forge a new path in a new place. Now physically,…
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I don’t really like the word ‘mystical.’ It’s imprecise, and full of contradictory meanings, from divine to derisive. But carefully considered, the word may point to a limitless uncharted territory…
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The attitudes we hold about our relationship to the universe, as well as to our own species, are the most important elements of our worldviews. Pascal said, “When the universe has…