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January 6, 2021
Ten Day #Travel Challenge: Day 4.
My friend, Joni Caggiano, poet, writer and photographer, nominated me to participate in the “Ten Day Travel Challenge.” The ‘rules’ are that participants post a photograph each day for ten days without disclosing the location, and nominate 10 others to engage with this challenge if they so desire. I’m a rule breaker by nature and …
January 5, 2021
Ten Day #Travel Challenge: Day 3.
My friend, Joni Caggiano, poet, writer and photographer, nominated me to participate in the “Ten Day Travel Challenge.” The ‘rules’ are that participants post a photograph each day for ten days without disclosing the location, and nominate 10 others to engage with this challenge if they so desire. I’m a rule breaker by nature and …
January 4, 2021
Ten Day #Travel Challenge: Day 2.
My friend, Joni Caggiano, poet, writer and photographer, nominated me to participate in the “Ten Day Travel Challenge.” The ‘rules’ are that participants post a photograph each day for ten days without disclosing the location, and nominate 10 others to engage with this challenge if they so desire. I’m a rule breaker by nature and …
January 3, 2021
Ten Day #Travel Challenge: Day 1.
My friend, Joni Caggiano, nominated me to participate in the “Ten Day Travel Challenge.” The ‘rules’ are that participants post a photograph each day for ten days without disclosing the location, and nominate 10 others to engage with this challenge if they so desire. I’m a rule breaker by nature and also enjoy indulging my …
January 2, 2021
Today’s Pictures: 2 Jan 21
A new year, but this project, begun at the start of April last year and aimed at bringing joy to those confined indoors because of Covid 19, continues. As we enter winter here in the forest surrounding my home, I’ll vary the pictures to show scenes from sunnier times. After all, the intention here is …
January 1, 2021
Today’s Pictures: 1 Jan 21, New Year’s Day
A new year, but this project, begun at the start of April last year and aimed at bringing joy to those confined indoors because of Covid 19, continues. As we enter winter here in the forest surrounding my home, I’ll vary the pictures to show scenes from sunnier times. After all, the intention here is …
December 31, 2020
Welcome to 2021.
A new start. New chances. New hopes. New dreams to fulfil. Positivity. Optimism. Let’s Do It! It’s gone at last, that dreadful year that was 2020. Gone, finished, done with. Over. We can begin anew. So, what do you have to look forward to? What’s on your creative, personal, social horizon? For me on the …
Today’s Pictures: 31 Dec 20, New Year’s Eve
Perhaps I should wax lyrical about the ending of a year so full of personal tragedy for so many. But today is traditionally a celebratory occasion and, though I question the value of many traditions, this is one to which I subscribe. Tomorrow, the start of a new year, with all that promises, will be …
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A Welcome Ending: 2020 Goodbye!
Christmas is for the kids. But I love the idea of a new beginning, however random that may be, so the New Year is always special for me. Trauma, trouble, dispute, and the glorious heroics and kindness of millions. This has been a year that will be remembered by most for many reasons. The personal …
December 30, 2020
Our Future Earth, by Curt Stager: #BookReview.
320 pagesGlobal Warming and Ecology/Ecological Pollution/Higher Education in Geography. Subtitled, The Next 100,000 Years of Life on the Planet, this book takes the view of that future as seen through the eyes of a paleoecologist, a term so new it doesn’t even appear in my edition of my usual go-to dictionary, the SOED. It describes …
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