Right now, after 6 weeks of lock down and social distancing due to Covid-19, I hear many people talking about and wishing for being able to go back to normal. What does “normal” mean? Yet is it even possible to go back to that world? For the past 6 weeks we could not do or go […]
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Go To Your Room Do you remember being a kid? May be you experienced being sent to your room to think about what you had done wrong? These “Stay at Home” orders that are in one way or another all over the globe remind me of that. It’s as if the earth has sent us to our […]
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Two years ago, I experienced the most intense thunderstorm in my life. There was so much rain, hail, and wind that I could hardly see a few feet. The local creeks all flash flooded. After it was over, I asked: Earth, what are you telling me here? What I got is that she is changing things. […]
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These past few days, I had birds fly into my window. Most of them are fine, just grazing the window with a wing. Sadly two birds must have hit the window in a different way and they went down. Both times, I went outside to check on them. I picked them up and gently picked […]
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Growing up in Germany, I am amazed at how attracted I am to the desert, be it high desert or low desert. There is something in the starkness of the landscape, in the intensity of live that appeals to me. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the desert areas of Eastern California. Owens […]
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It’s beginning July. The Winter had not been, meaning we had had hardly any snowfall. The landscape was parched and the temperatures were going up. The creek near which I live had had no water in it for quite some time. I decided to put out water for the critters. One morning, preparing breakfast, I […]
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