A naturalist-teacher's wonderment and perplexity in light of the perilous State of the Planet~a teachable moment? Do feel free to leave comments. The conversation helps me know I'm not a tree falling in the forests and stimulates me to dig deeper.
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The Subtle Smells of Sleep
Some while back I shared a personal connection of smell to memory. See The Bittersweet Memory of Smells. But now I am interested in olfaction’s possible role in sleep, and here’s why:
I have an odd sleep pattern but no difficulty falling o...
And That’s the News: Farewell, Doug Thompson
Early in 2004 I read that this guy Doug Thompson and his wife were moving to Floyd. The piece in the Floyd Press told just enough about him that I looked up with conviction from the paper and told my wife “He and I are going to be friends!”...
Words, Whales and Wonder
I had talked myself out of posting this after reading it in Lenoir Words writing group a few days ago. It was top-of-brain and could have gone lots of places it didn’t, for lack of time. And energy. But heck, I have had a pretty low bar ove...
Freeing the Forest
Last spring, a sister facility from St Louis got in touch with our grounds committee on which I serve with a request to visit our campus, examine our adjacent acres of woods and discuss our woods management plan.
We realized with that prom...
Field and Ground
Pending any post of a more ambitious nature (in progress) I’ll just share a few images and snippets and that will take away some of the guilt of my lethargy and shame over my generally unproductive and fully forgettable summer of ‘26.
Fir...
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