Sometimes the computational powers that be conspire to foil a post. That yet-to-be-posted item might have been trail inspirational: this one I found thought-inspiring. From a medical blogger flying under a banner headline: Embrace the Mystery This distinction between puzzles and mysteries is described in a powerful new book by Ian Leslie: Curious: The Desire toContinue reading “Puzzles and mystery: How they differ”
Category Archives: thinking out loud
What if we honored solitude as we honor group thinking?
Apologize for not catching up to all that is going on with climate environmental news. Yes, even bloggers — perhaps especially bloggers — can suffer from environmental overwhelm. In response, perhaps, have been reading into solitude lately, notably an appropriately thoughtful book called The Republic of Noise, an award-winning book from 2012, that looks atContinue reading “What if we honored solitude as we honor group thinking?”
Squeezing the last few drops from the PCT: Walker Pass to Kennedy Meadows
listen to the wind
lie down
listen to the winds
always moving on
CA drought hits home — in Upper Ojai
Or, to be precise, the drought hits my backyard. Yesterday the second of two enormous oak trees that have fallen in the same area in the past month came crashing down. About a year ago an even bigger and more beloved oak in vicinity split apart and fell. Here's a basic phone pic that givesContinue reading “CA drought hits home — in Upper Ojai”
El Nino — the Lazarus of 2014?
At the last minute for an El Nino this year, a Kelvin wave rises from the data:
IPCC report leaked: global warming a disaster of poverty
Seth Borenstein of the AP leads the national press in reporting on a leaked IPCC report starkly warning that global warming will give us a poorer, sicker, more violent world. And he puts the language of the report itself front and center: "Throughout the 21st century, climate change impacts will slow down economic growth andContinue reading “IPCC report leaked: global warming a disaster of poverty”
For 3000th post, free tangerine candy!
This is my 3000th post on this blog, and to commemorate the occasion and thank readers for their interest, I'd like to give away some top-notch Page tangerines, air dried by yours truly, which IMHO are the best trail treats ever. Better even than chocolate, beause a) they don't melt, b) they're lighter, and c)Continue reading “For 3000th post, free tangerine candy!”
To be young (and old) in the wild: This Feeling
Last week, in his un-ostentacious but no bullshit way, Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes wrote a great column on the joys of being on the PCT. I'm not going to quote it, because it's hard to know which bit to choose, but encourage you all to take a look. Today, in a similar vein, butContinue reading “To be young (and old) in the wild: This Feeling”
Storms, lighting, death at Venice beach: Climate change?
As Judith Lewis Mernit wrote for a blog with High Country News: The weather of Venice Beach, California, where I live, is for the most part stable, and almost always predictable. No sudden squalls appear out of the southwest to chase skateboarders off their concrete ramps; never do we hear the civil-defense sirens warning ofContinue reading “Storms, lighting, death at Venice beach: Climate change?”
A deal to save the whales in the Santa Barbara Channel
So hard to keep up with even of a fraction of what is going on! But here for once is some maybe-semi-kind-of good news from the world of science and the environment. Research published this june has shown that over a period of fifteen years whales traveling with the California current along the coast haveContinue reading “A deal to save the whales in the Santa Barbara Channel”
Kit Stolz 