This morning I woke up feeling the old winds of saudade.
It’s my son’s 17th birthday today… and I was reminded of my 17th birthday which I celebrated long ago in Campos, Brasil.
Growing up in a small rural town, birthdays were subdued affairs in my family, just the usual - we got to choose dinner [...]
Tags: birthday, brasil, brazil, family, homesick, love, saudade, seventeen
I know it’s been a wacky winter - too cold in the south, too warm in the north, wind & hail & thundersnow - but I have to admit, I get irked when I read the misinformed global warming comments.
So to do my part in helping people understand climate change, below is a simplified [...]
Tags: climate, climate change, education, fox news, global warming, politics, science, weather
For many of us on the east coast, we woke up this morning to a mess after a night of gale winds. Down the street from our house a lovely (albeit rotten) old hemlock fell in the cemetery under thundering winds. I wonder why it’s so sad to see a giant tree down… as if a [...]
Tags: robert frost, trees
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