For a while, I didn’t get art. It boggled me. You see, I am a person who expresses themselves most fragrantly in spoken words, slightly less so written ones, aptly through music, decently through dance, poorly through cooking, and, Pictionary successes notwithstanding, abysmally through visual art. So when it came to art I wondered what […]
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Anna Rose Above It
April 27, 2012 
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So last night (April 26th) I had the pleasure of watching the ABC’s climate special. This involved their documentary, “I Can Change Your Mind…On Climate”, in which delayer Nick Minchin and advocate Anna Rose flit about the world talking to climate scientists who accept the climate science, and recreational bloggers or political pundits, who dispute […]
Read more Reflections on my Climate Activism
April 25, 2012 0 Comments
Being engaged in climate activism can be the worst. Humanity is currently on track to face terrible increases in global temperatures, rising sea levels, chaotic and highly destructive weather events, the loss of agricultural land, and the loss of water security. This is freaking alarming. But again, and again, the needed change that climate activists […]
Read more Book 1: “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, Pirsig
April 16, 2012 1 Comment
Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is an extraordinary book. It is filled with sources of pleasure: the beautiful elegance of the prose, the startling contemporary insights delivered offhand by the narrator, and the challengingly divergent worldview proposed by the book’s meta-narrative. The book is written in first-person, and the narrator details the […]
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