My son and husband returned from their guys’ adventure with tales of the lemur’s angry noises. They’d seen cougars, tigers, emus, alpaca, even the largest captive herd of Siberian reindeer (not to mention Santa and a bevy of elves). But it was the eruption of lemur screams that captivated them.
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Lemurs and Guys
Posted in Masculinity, Natural World, The Genders on December 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Low Tide
Posted in Acceptance, Beaches/Tides, Existential, Fear, Natural World, Vulnerability on November 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I walked away from the bonfire, toward the bay, toward the horizon, except there’s no horizon after dark. My rain boots crunched and squished along the rocks and shells and sand, and as I walked further out, sank a bit with each step. This was sand rarely exposed to air. I walked among pools of […]
Butterfly Wings
Posted in Isolation/Belonging, Love, Rain, Science, Young Love on October 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
My literary/relational mind is poorly suited for certain types of science. When I first heard of string theory, I personalized – and simplified – it; perhaps this is what non-physicists do. I like the idea that people and objects are more than random particles, and that instead, something exists in the in-between, connecting bits and […]
A Parable
Posted in Birds, Emotions/Inner World, Friendship, Natural World, Responsibility on September 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I. The Fat Squirrel We are host to a greedy squirrel. It hangs its ever-widening body off the pagoda roof of the bird feeder, tail above feet above head, furiously stuffing morsels into its mouth, creating a rain shower of corn kernels and seeds in the frenzy to get more. It squats on its […]