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Just Talking About . . . Cherry Blossoms
April 17, 2016. This is a photo of a cherry tree in bloom, under the river bluffs of my hometown, Winona, Minnesota. The sight of blossoming cherry trees is not unusual in spring, but this tree is: it is a … Continue reading
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Just Thinking About…Turtles Versus Roads
March 19, 2016. Our remarkable, ever-surprising country has a case of Berniemania and Trumpitis, with a low-grade Cruz-Hillary fever. Driving the highway a few weeks back, pondering all this, I passed a place where, over a decade ago, I’d saved … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Making Tracks!
March 1, 2016. Last month Elizabeth and I drove several hours in the general direction of the North Pole, walked across a frozen lake on snowshoes, and settled in for a few days of isolation and immersion in the cold … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Flint’s Water and Road Salt
February 6, 2016. We’re all mostly correct in our collective outrage that Flint’s water supply was contaminated with lead after switching from using Detroit’s water system to drawing from the Flint River. As we now know, that river water corroded … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Death-Defying Squirrels
January 9, 2016. One day this week I spent twenty minutes watching an immature red-tailed hawk trying to catch squirrels in my back yard. I first noticed him out my dining room window—if you have never seen a red-tail, they … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Care for the Small Things
November 14, 2015. Watching the horror unfold in Paris yesterday, reminded of the many horrors visited on the world regularly, I can’t help but feel that writing about a bird is a trivial, perhaps even disrespectful thing to do. But … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Parks and Architecture
October 19, 2015. I recently spent a tawny fall weekend on Minnesota’s North Shore. It was the last possible weekend to see any color—already many of the trees were bare, and the birch leaves had achieved that sere, deep yellow-gold … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…Spring Peepers in the Fall
September 28, 2015. Today was a big day for us: my daughter Pippa released the two Spring Peepers she has raised from tadpoles. It was a beautiful fall day, warm and sunny. We took them to a patch of woods … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…The Pope’s Idea of Integral Ecology, Part 3 – A Change of Heart
I was sure I could boil 40,000 words down to 1600…but, alas, I couldn’t do it. So here’s the third installment of my musings on the Pope’s Encyclical, “On Care for our Common World.” What is it, then, that will … Continue reading
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Just Talking About…The Pope’s Idea of Integral Ecology, Part 2 – Technology as Destiny
Everybody loves Pope Francis it seems. His defense of the least defended of humanity’s billions, his scolding of those who pursue wealth and power for its own sake, his surprising tolerance of the human condition despite his own Church’s tradition … Continue reading
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