Field notes

November 30, 2024 0

Sorry

While in Victoria, I overheard a range of sentiment about the American election: everything from "they didn't deserve their republic" to "this opens up great opportunity, let's recruit doctors and nurses over the border" and "we'd better prepare now for the economic hit Canada is going to take." [...]
November 1, 2023 0

Necessary

What about our own work? It may never be read; is it necessary? If not, maybe we can save ourselves the trouble. We can give up writing or painting or philosophizing for extra sleep in the morning. Or for more time outdoors. Or for more time listening to baseball. [...]
October 1, 2023 0

Place

Literature of place has been with us forever, from the heroic journeys there and back again (think Homer and [...]
August 30, 2023 0

More

“Less is more,” German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, sometime around the turn of the [...]
July 1, 2023 2

Summer

This summer day will burn hot, here and around the hemisphere. Last night the evening air chilled enough that [...]
May 31, 2023 12

Finish

The heartbreaking 2016 Antarctic crossing of Henry Worsley, who came within 126 miles of his goal, recently [...]

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