In a world where only extremes (and extremists) seem to make the news, the above photo is extremely frightening. California’s dry spring, preceded by a very low snowpack, have left Yosemite Falls high and dry. According to the Modesto Bee, drinking water is being packed into the Sunrise High Sierra Camp and showers — always [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
becoming part of (local) history
It was one of the easiest drives over the Carquinez Strait; this morning we were part of a 300-car “First Drive” motorcade on the new north-bound span of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge. Though the morning greeted us with gray overcast, but the sun was shining by the time we were waved by CHP and local police [...]
the flying fish confession
This summer I was fishing Rock Creek, in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. I came to this place during five days of camping and fishing, intent upon bringing newfound fly fishing skills to bear upon its finned population. Since those days I have been haunted by an undisclosed embarrassment.
Despite my trepidation of venturing into these [...]
gushings from my mind
[Please forgive another free flow of thought prompted by life events.]
The recent death of Benjamin Libet, a neurophysiologist whose pioneering studies of the human brain included an exploration of the nature of free will pushed my mind into overdrive with memories of the age-old debate that extends into academia, philosophy and ethics, theology, metaphysics, and [...]
spilling my thoughts on parenting
parent (pâr’ənt): 1. n. In the words of journalist Suzanne Gordon, “the identity that can never be shed.”
parenting (pâr’ən-tĭng): 1. n. The act of guiding a growing human being through a succession of increasingly complicated issues for at least 18 years.
requirements of parenting (not in any particular order):
Resolve
Flexibility
Fortitude (Of mind, soul and body.)
Patience
Wisdom (Often beyond [...]
