What Connects Us All

by | Jun 27, 2010 | 0 comments

I’m always on somewhat shaky ground when I write about the natural world.  Even though I’ve posted before on such disparate topics as dragonflies,  pissants, skunks, monkeys, and, of course, birds, I’ve never tried to make anything coherent out of these separate natural elements.  Recently, however, I’ve begun to contemplate the meaning of it all.  By all, I mean how one bit relates to the other, and then another, and finally becomes a whole. Lately, S. and I have been rising early and spending time in the garden in the relative cool of the  summer morning.  It’s more or less mindless work.  Pulling weeds, picking whatever needs picking and talking about how...

Politics in the Extreme

by | Jun 1, 2010 | 0 comments

I’ve known that Libertarianism existed as a political philosophy for some time, but I’ve chosen to ignore it.  I’ve known of Congressman Ron Paul (mainly because of a giant billboard on I30 that I pass on the way to my ranch), but I’ve chosen to ignore him also.  I now know of his son,  Rand Paul, the aspiring Senator from Kentucky, and his whacky statements about the Civil Right Act of 1964, and I now I just can’t ignore it any longer. I used to think that saying or being known for really far out ideas would get you excluded from consideration for high public office, now it seems it may be a prerequisite.  When Paul defeated Trey Greyson in the Republican...