First, find a beaver-gnawed walking stick and, second, test the river’s slippery subsurface cobblestone street: Then, step into the flow and feel the river’s imperturbable strength; let your muscles—not your thoughts—adapt to the insistence; laugh as you realize your body is made for this: When you have the feel of riverwalking that comes w/relaxing into [...]
We are very sad to read that, on May 9th, “2,700 becquerels of radioactive cesium …. was detected in processed tea that was made from leaves that elementary school children picked in Tokyo as part of their school curriculum.” They received health-damaging doses: the “
More proof that surprises await those whose senses are open, and whose legs have walked them off the pavement gameboard that is but a figment and fraction of the totality we are— please welcome, and give a round of applause to, our local friend and neighbor: the freshwater sponge, a creature “scientists know little about.” [...]
+ gnomedog, too! When you’re in Ashfield, take a quick trip to the Sidehill Farm farm-store, buy some of their raw milk, raw butter, paneer, & glimpse this beautiful inhabitation:
Charles Darwin did not invent his theory of evolution; he inherited it from his liberal poet of a grandfather, Erasmus. Join us in the Forbes Library Watson Room @ 7 PM on Monday night, as we share the history and writings of this forgotten luminary, a friend of Benjamin Franklin who played a central role [...]
Japanese citizens, not their government, are monitoring radiation levels—think about that. Here’s the link to their google map. Here’s a screenshot of the Tokyo area:
Appreciation of wilderness is found when one feels it—b/c, like happiness or sadness, wilderness is never a place*. It’s a feeling. Yesterday, we felt it— *The entire planet is wild; it’s just our kooky belief that we **control** nature that helps us pretend otherwise.
4 months later, 3 of the Fukushima reactors continue to meltdown. Only the constant spraying of water upon the ruined fuel rods keeps them from turning into magma, hitting the earth beneath the reactors and causing volcano-like explosions. In March I wrote about reactor 2, b/c—having toured the VT Yankee’s simulation reactor last fall—I realized [...]
In 1935, in the midst of the satyagraha campaign, Gandhi was looking for ways to help his people reject English capitalism. One of the ways was to teach them to eat weeds.* He liked purslane, a superfood loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, that is growing now here in the Nonotuck biome. Strew a handful into [...]
