London Extrapolations Two years ago, making the blog work with Lightroom and an increasing number of hard drives was easy. Step away for just a moment, and the muscle memory deteriorates. Took me ages to find and reconcile a few images I wanted to post today. Such is the blogging life. Poor
Read Watch Listen Just for the halibut (trust me, there will be a rolling of the eyes) I'm eating too much and exercising...let's call it infrequently. I know it's winter, and PNW winters encourage big bowls of soup and stew mopped up with bread. Mmmm, bread and soup. But this is getting out of hand. The belt buckle never lies.
Blog Weekly Roundup There's really not a weekly roundup. Maybe I'll start one as a way of avoiding too many links. The situation in Afghanistan is scary. I feel terrible for the Afghan people, but I am glad that we are ending our military occupation. My foreign policy days
Climate Change Here comes the sickly sun I couldn't sleep. Ohh, there's a lame joke there. Too hot. I should have invested in a bigger fan. I commiserated with friends yesterday about the heat and smoky (I think it should be smokey) skies. They all mentioned some variation of new normal. I don&
Read Watch Listen Dana Frankoff film Voice Above Water I watched an incredible short film on Vimeo today - Dana Frankoff's Voice Above Water [https://vimeo.com/495325925]. You probably already guessed most of that from the post's title. Powerful, beautiful, sad. It's about 12 minutes. I recommend it. And maybe if enough
Blog Be prepared My folks have a place in Arizona's high desert. It's nice to get out of Phoenix's summer inferno. Fires are a threat in this region, so I bought a new emergency radio for the place. I knew they had one, but I worried it
Read Watch Listen Hey there PNW I've been thinking about you all and the heat. I've escaped the furnace of Phoenix for cooler temperatures in the high desert, but the memory of that oppressive heat remains, and I had air conditioning. I hope you and the pets are holding up. Safety first,
Blog I'm stuck. Before the pandemic I started moving away from the fast posts on social media. I don't think there's anything wrong with the fast posts on social media. Seriously. There's a lot wrong with the big social media companies, but after that consideration, it'
Blog My powers of manifestation... If you've read this blog, you've probably heard me say that one of the biggest blogging challenges (among many blogging challenges) is regaining momentum after a lull. And lull isn't even the right word. I'm in Arizona for a bit, and I
Blog The birds are different here It is hot in Phoenix. Miserably hot. I fear it will only get worse. I don't mean next week. I've read a few interesting articles recently about Lake Mead and the drought affecting the southwest. Worrying. But I'm not going to provide links. Easy
shoulda been a tweet Environmental Optimism and Tasmanian tigers I apologize for always linking to New York Times articles. I know that the New York Times has a pay wall. I think they offer a certain number of articles free per month, and I keep meaning to see if having a subscription allows one to email full articles. If
shoulda been a tweet Water's rising There's an excellent article by Christopher Flavelle in the New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/climate/outer-banks-tax-climate-change.html] about climate change and the difficult decisions facing residents of the Outer Banks. Erin Schaff's accompanying photography and videos are fantastic. Climate change is
AG23 Doggerland, in the mail In October 2019 I shot photos in the UK and Ireland related to Brexit and Extinction Rebellion. I haven’t posted many of the photos. I wanted to go through the process of thinking about them as a whole, a visual essay, with a zine as the result. I learned
Climate Change Global Climate Strike, Seattle, 20 September 2019 NASA [https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/]: > Scientific Consensus Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. Young people are demanding that world
Capitol Hill Capitol Hill Ecodistrict: Local Conversation on Climate Change and Resilience On 1 June 2017, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Not surprisingly, that prompted discussions about the future of international efforts to confront climate change and whether the United States would continue to play a role in those efforts or be sidelined.
Activism The PNW: Call to Action (climate) On Thursday 12 January, 350Seattle [http://350seattle.org] led a civic engagement discussion at the Prospect Congregational United Church of Christ [http://www.prospectseattle.org]in Capitol Hill, Seattle, that was focused on fostering and organizing civic action on climate change issues. The first hour consisted of an overview of
