NAME THOSE TRACKS! Tour d’Joko Yellowstone Edition: Episode 12

Yellowstone Episode 12 takes us into my last day at the park.  I was ready to leave, but found myself snowbound early that morning as the road to the north gate of the park had yet to be plowed.  Six inches of snow had fallen overnight. Here I write, on the 4th of July, as […]

The Secret of the Green Man

Clannad – Siúil A Rún The Rooftop Garden The Secret of the Green Man A Fable by James Clair Lewis No one knew how old the Green Man was. It seems that he had always been around. I remember my Grandfather had told me stories of the Green Man, when I was just a boy, […]

Tisvilde forest, may 2012, part 2

I’ve blogged about Juniper Valley before, and maybe it will happen again. One can’t ever get enough of breathtaking landscapes while singing this song The Cult – Sweet Soul Sister

Tisvilde forest, may 2012, part 1

The first visit the 11th included this hill known as the Legbreaker Here the camera batteries failed, so I came back the 18th (because of the tree circles, see earlier blog post) This time I went to Frederiksværk first. Leaving the town, a forests’s edge This traffic sign shows I’m on the right track Melby […]

TED TALKS 72

TED TALKS 72 Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality Lewis Pugh’s mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim Jason Clay: How […]

Meet Ocean Acidification

Meet Ocean Acidification Ocean Acidification) Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification Oceans and Climate Change: Impacts and Opportunities Acidic Oceans: Why Should We Care? Ocean Acidification Part 1 of 3 Ocean Acidification Part 2 of 3 Ocean Acidification Part 3 of 3 Ocean Acidification — Changing Planet Ocean Acidification: Where will all the […]

TED TALKS 71

TED TALKS 71 Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + hunger = 1 global food issue Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison Hans Rosling on global population growth Carl Safina: The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex Ethan Zuckerman: How to listen to global voices […]

The Religion of the Trees

Enya : The Memory of Trees The Santa Monica Mountains 5 The Religion of the Trees by James Clair Lewis There is an Apple Tree in Amesbury behind the house in which I used to live. I tended this tree, and spent many hours reading books beneath it, and meditating. One day while leaning up […]

The UnBEARable Whiteness I’m Seeing: Yellowstone 11

As I sat in my van on the edge of Yellowstone Lake, with white-out conditions blanketing the park with snow, I was kinda bummed out.  My ongoing quest to see definitive signs of the caldera was being thwarted.  Already that morning, I had to bypass without seeing one of the area’s most famous sites: The […]

Affordable Care Cat is Upheld!

Borrowed these pics from affordablecarecat.com.. Inspired by a typo.