I was unprepared Balancing the scales I did the best I could but still I have failed. ~Barlow and Bear Have you ever heard of the pumpkin toadlet? It is a very, very small frog from Brazil (all toads are frogs; the two terms are taxonomically meaningless). These cuties, which could easily fit on […]
I was 21 and I called the road my own I don’t know when that road turned into the road I’m on. ~Jackson Browne, Running on Empty I ran track for a short time in college. It was a total lark; the inane rules dictated you needed three women to compete in the […]
Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I’m going through ~David Bowie, Changes During the pandemic, David started mowing a walking path for me through the field on our property. Last week I was hiking when I almost stepped on a bright green snake sunning itself, draped across the narrow mowed path. […]
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~Rumi Everything is terrible. And everything is beautiful. It’s a paradox, but it’s also true. Everything is both better and worse than it used to be. On one hand, we are wealthier, healthier, safer, and more informed than […]
The Buddha tasked a young monk to go to the river. “Sit there until you have heard all the water has to teach.” And so the monk sat, silently staring at the water, hearing the burble, asking it to share its wisdom. Many days into his meditation, a small monkey scampered by him, jumping into […]
bro i don’t care if aliens are real i want to be able to go to the dentist. @katierose via Twitter Can we talk about the aliens? Early this summer, David Grusch, a former intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, declared under oath that the U.S. is concealing a decades-long program to […]
