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Throughout my reading of Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene, I found myself distracted by updates… Read more The Sense of Home

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…whatever you were doing or planning back in January is probably irrelevant by now. For me, this year started out… Read more 2020, the year when…

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.  –EB White Back when I was dipping… Read more Car-free in 2020?

Metamorphosis is not a term typically associated with human animals. As dramatic as such transformations are, the idea that one… Read more Exploring Arboreality

I’m not for a second complaining, but the truth is, we’re facing a bit of an emergency here: the woodshed,… Read more Good work

“Henry Rackmeyer, you tell us what is important.” “A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a… Read more What’s Important