I'm slowly becoming a birder. A lot of my childhood was spent with my father shushing me while he looked at something through his binoculars, so there's history behind this. However, one of the things I really got from my dad was not a love of bird watching, but just the idea that all things... Continue Reading →
Quiet
Just for a moment, from time to time, I am able to find quiet in my head. It’s barely an instant (and usually not while meditating, which just shows how much I rather suck at meditating, in spite of a regular practice). This last week I’ve had it twice. Once while walking in the mountains... Continue Reading →
I’d Like to Apologize
There are so many things for me to apologize for, being the usual sort of hypocrite one finds in the world (judging others for behavior that I'm guilty of myself, not liking to admit that I don't know something or that I'm wrong, you know, the usual). In this case I would like to apologize... Continue Reading →
The Depressed Hairdressers
I visited the very south of South America once, a town called Punta Arenas. It was the way in and out of the Torres del Paine park, where I was going for a trek. Punta Arenas is windy, a lot of the time. It made it to no. 4 of the world's windiest cities on... Continue Reading →