My partner is an ecologist (as a profession) and he said you can plant trees all you want, but you cannot plant a forest. There are so many intricate relationships between bacteria, soil composition, mushrooms, insects, birds and so forth, that it is almost impossible to plant a forest. What I find interesting is the... Continue Reading →
Hiding in Plain Sight
I think I've rarely been so happy in my life. I've had an ideal existence for the last week or so, and it there's a possibility that it could go on for a while more, as least a few more weeks. I wake up, meditate and do yoga. I eat breakfast, and I start working... Continue Reading →
Bob the Blob
One of the joys of getting older is the funky things your body starts doing. I just had a cyst removed from my eyebrow, Bob the Blob, and apparently this is a post-menopause thing. Your body starts collecting stuff in places it never did before (like, apparently, on your eyebrows) and getting rid of stuff... Continue Reading →
More to Love
Foro and I are on the road today. We're on the train to where I work, for: lunch with a colleague, a meeting with the director, and the annual end of school year meeting. Then Foro and I'll go to my partner's place. I think this is the most enjoyable part of the sabbatical (or... Continue Reading →