crates | December 25, 2009
It is Christmas Eve, 11:55 pm, and I am alone at work, getting ready to go out into the frosty night. Once again I think back on past times with my family as I have many times before. I haven’t posted much lately because I have been working so many long hours, but soon [...]
crates | November 9, 2009
I was wondering why people were staring at me at the Mississippi visitor’s center last summer after I had pulled off Interstate 10. I checked my zipper, nope…wiped my nose, nope nothing there, then I realized that I was wearing two pairs of glasses, one low down on my nose and the other right above [...]
crates | October 24, 2009
When I reached the beach on my walk two Sundays ago, I saw a large black body out in the water, then a great fin protruding above the surface. At first I was confused as to what I was seeing, then everything clicked into place, and I realized that I was watching a pod of [...]
crates | October 23, 2009
I was reading the paper today, and when I got to the funny papers (comics), I found an odd thing. I kept seeing the same references to volunteerism and community service in many of the strips. Below is a summary of what I found: Garfield: “Today I volunteered to help clean up the city park.” [...]
crates | September 1, 2009
The Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), almost hunted to near extinction in the lower forty-eight states, once again can be legally killed. This has come about after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the wolf off the endangered species list last May and will allow Idaho and Montana to reduce the wolf population down to [...]
crates | August 31, 2009
I was recently watching this TV program on black holes. As usual when I contemplate such things, I became slightly depressed. When a star which is about three times or more the mass of our sun reaches the end of its life, it collapses and in the process blows out a great mass of matter [...]
crates | July 12, 2009
I am reading The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers for the second time and have been struck again by just how much I like and admire his novels. I have read and re-read his books since discovering them years ago, and they never fail to entertain and enthrall me. Every time that [...]
crates | July 1, 2009
Here’s some birds I saw in Panama. The page and plate numbers refer to the Birds of Panama. Common Name Scientific Name Panama Area (P=Panama City; T=Bocas;B=Boquete Pl.no. Page no. Egret, Great Casmerodius albus P, T 2 69 Egret, Cattle Bubulcus i. ibis P, T 2 71 Heron, Great Blue Ardea h. herodias P, [...]
crates | May 1, 2009
I was talking to a person about the flower, Trillium ovatum, mentioning how it was blooming in the woodlands now, and they mentioned how it occurred in both white and purple colors. I said that it was my impression that the flowers were white when it first bloomed, but that some turned purple after it [...]
crates | April 23, 2009
We are sentient beings. As conscious entities we often look for meaning in what at first appears to be an uncaring universe. This seems to be the way we are, constantly seeking for meaning that relates to our own lives. Religion and philosophy are attempts to render meaning to our lives. People of long ago, [...]