Category: Gaia — or the Earth herself
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My fave Avatar: Jane Fonda
So this one is a bit silly, but totally serious. My fitness and health avatar is Jane Fonda. I wish I could be her. /s In two days, I am going to New York City to see (or hear LOL) Jane as she will be the narrator of a performance of Dear Everything at the…
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Solarpunk, a happy apocalypse? A review for Monk & Robot duology.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built & A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers, published in 2021 & 2022. I just finished the Duology of the Monk and Robot series. Such a wonderful and playful story. A great read, and I eagerly jumped from book 1 to book 2. How Solarpunk is presenting a happy…
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Spaceship Earth: the Shape of our Planet!
Or “Can’t We Just Stop Destroying Things?” I just watched Spaceship Earth, which is the story of the Biosphere2 project outside of Tucson, Arizona. I remember touring Biosphere2 with my youngest, a science buff, while visiting my dad in the 2000s. (I miss you, Dad.) It felt like I was inside a terrarium. Warm, moist,…
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Odd #1: Gondor + Earth
This scene always made my skin crawl.
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A rare Black New Moon: this Monday night 12/30/2024
This Monday night will be the 2nd New Moon in December, thus will be a “Black” Moon. I read that this is rare. I guess it is rare from an arbitrary POV — that a thing we call a month has 2 of something that it usually has only 1 of. Rare. A 2nd Full…
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Two elephants in a Drought Land: a metaphor for war
A travelogue of war books that have stayed with me.
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Oops. So I am embarrassed, but admitting my mistake.
My euphoria is over. That lovely photo of baby Monarch butterflies… Not. Baby. Monarch. butterflies. lol Monarch Eggs or Aphids? How to Tell the Difference They are Milkweed aphids. Given that my whole purpose was to support the endangered butterfly, I am going to boost this article on how to control the Milkweed aphid: How…