Q: What will people say if I trap cats? It may surprise you how much of the response is overwhelmingly positive. Story 1. A friend asked what I’d been up to. Told her (with some reservation about how she’d react-she’s a church lady) that I’d just taken another cat to […]
Environment
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Was out walking the dog today when a friend working in her garden mentioned that a big black bear had just walked by between our place and hers. I was happy to hear it. It’s been some time since we’ve had one in the neighborhood. We’ve always had bears until […]
India: Cremation fires, the coming monsoon, riders on the storm “When the monsoon fails to blow, India starves and dreams of Nirvana.” Will Durant. Our Oriental Heritage. 1935 May, 2021. India contemplates itself shimmering in heat waves of pandemic where days and bodies are over a hundred degrees F. Last […]
There were two excellent natural gas articles in the paper at the end of February. One was that AEL&P/Avista’s plan to bring natural gas to Juneau is on hold indefinitely. AEL&P is Alaska Electric Light and Power, our hometown power company that has been phenomenal since 1893. They’ve been innovative. […]
Wind kicked up on the north end of Admiralty Island where no one lives. Thinking it might be wind that sometimes blows for half an hour at the bottom of the ebb then stops, and being in the rowboat, I anchored near shore to take a nap. Woke up […]
November 19th is World Toilet Day and toilets are on the move. The World Toilet Summit is in Melbourne, Australia this year but from Rwanda inmates to billionaire Bill Gates, humanity everywhere is opening a more enlightened dialog about what happens after we take a dump. When the United Nations […]