H20 Notes

July 31, 2022 6

Voice

The rare-bird reports reach my phone from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s citizen-science app, ebird, [...]

June 30, 2022 2

Drink

The parable reads like a riddle: two raccoons walked into a yard, looking for a drink . . . (For an immediate [...]

June 1, 2022 0

Parents

A tough time for parents. So said Buddhist instructor Sylvia Boorstein in a dharma class over Memorial Day weekend. Not that it has ever been easy. [...]

May 1, 2022 0

Cooling

. . . but only God can make a tree. So said American poet Joyce Kilmer in 1914, four years before his death in the battle of Ourcq southwest of Paris. [...]

April 1, 2022 5

Cleaning

I was going to write about spring cleaning today, as (per writer Candor McNair) “dust bunnies are [...]

March 9, 2022 2

Hydropolitics

(Profits from my book sales this month—and for the foreseeable future—will benefit UNICEF, specifically [...]

February 14, 2022 6

Love

So many ways to love. And so many entities: people and animals and objects. This being an H2O blog, maybe [...]

December 31, 2021 0

Frames

Sometimes, in writing, we use a technique known as framing. We book-end a story between a beginning and [...]

November 21, 2021 2

Giving

This time last year, my brother Jon and I had just begun cleaning personal belongings out of my father’s [...]

October 31, 2021 8

Haunted

Nothing in the world is truly separate, say the physicists and Zen priests, all of us borderless entities of [...]