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Least Tern, Great Karma
Photo at Stltoday.com Global warming and rising carbon emissions make it clear that we are a long way from the global cooperation we’ll need to tackle the world’s biggest problems. Saving the planet,...
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Summer Reverie: Vacation at the Upscale, Seaside, Eco-Swamp Resort
Though school seems to start back earlier every year, Labor Day is still the practical end of summer. Maybe that’s part of the reason I’m melancholy today. The house is quiet. Our two younger boys are...
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David Haskell Finds Biology Zen in a Patch of Nature – NYTimes.com
David Haskell Finds Biology Zen in a Patch of Nature – NYTimes.com. This past weekend I was walking in a park near my home to watch a Cross Country Meet. It was strange, as it has been ever since I...
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Wonders, Wisdom on the Wide Missouri
I have two large river maps on the back wall of my office. One charts the winding courses of the Current and Jacks Fork as they flow out from springs on the north central edge of the Ozarks, come...
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A Lost Campaign for 600 Words
Every four years an intense Presidential season runs from the February before the general election to the State of the Union address the following February. The season has just ended. For 12 months...
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True/False in Town, Village, and World
Once a year Columbia, Missouri is the site of one of the world’s great film festivals: True/False. Who knew? Columbia is a pretty hip college town. With two son’s living there and the other a frequent...
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Becoming the All-Terrain Human – NYTimes.com
The NYT is running an astonishing portrait of a man who may be the greatest endurance athlete in recorded history: Kilian Jornet. Read the piece here: Becoming the All-Terrain Human – NYTimes.com. The...
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Snow Day Dreamscape: Limbs and Lines for the Lingering Eye
Photos James BurtonFiled under: Birds, Landscape and Habitat, Nature/ Natural History, Ordinary moments, The Arts
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My Life as a Dragonfly
I came to this article in the middle of a busy workday. Dragonflies, Nature’s Deadly Drone The miraculous video left me slack-jawed and stupefied. I moved to the article scarcely shifting in my chair,...
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The Return of an Ordinary Question
Driving my youngest son home from college across low, rolling midwest hills yesterday evening, a chord of sweet melancholy opened up in my chest. Of course, you can never completely trace the origin...
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Protecting True Play In a Gaming Culture
Have you noticed you don’t play as much as you used to? I mean in your adult life, of course, not compared to when you were a kid. But childhood is the best place to start a reflection about play, so...
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Pope Francis: Hope for the Climate in the New Year
Pope Francis’ recent scathing remarks to the Curia provided an astonishing moment of truth for the Roman Catholic Church. Image at ncronline.org As much as I’ve come to expect the unexpected from him,...
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