We have a convergence of two events: it’s summer (all month, and then some) and it’s Hump Day. So let’s use our mid-week break to cool off. We need one of these around here. This looks like it might be in Hawaii. It looks like a blast!
RED-HOT PSA
Forget global warming for a moment: in my corner of the planet today, we have local warming. Intense local warming. Like over 100°F intense.In fact, it goes beyond warming and well into heating (but just short of incinerating). And yet, as Mark Twain allegedly (but probably didn’t) put it, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” …
the LATEST issue!
No, really. Oh, it was printed on Tuesday morning as usual and delivered beginning Wednesday, just like always. It’s just this online edition that was delayed. But it’s worth waiting for: this issue has topics from hate crimes to moral and ethical pharmacy issues; a medical student’s experience with his first dead body; pets and exercise; marijuana brownies; a book …
PSA of the Week
Good stuff. And best of all, it’s free.
Your Hump Day Hiatus
I once had a book that contained page after page of beautiful nature photography. Some pages also contained a quote from a poet or naturalist that perfectly matched the photograph on that page. As I watched this video and took my own mid-week break, I was immediately reminded of one of those quotes. It came to me verbatim, all these …
Your Hump Day Hiatus is served.
This lush and lovely video makes me so glad I’ve chosen this planet to live on. Location, location, location. Do you realize that there isn’t a single drop of water (not ice; water) in the known universe that isn’t on our lovely planet Earth? As naturalist Loren Eiseley once said, “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained …
Your midweek hiatus is served
While you’re on hiatus for a few minutes, I hope you’ll take the time savor this fine short documentary film. It’s about a great man, but a man you’ve never heard of. It’s about adapting, about contributing, about being a human being, the human family, about compassion, about living today with everything today brings along for the ride, even when …