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April 30, 2004
Ron's got her blog up and running!
One of my oldest friends has entered the world of place-based blogging. Chris-Bob says check it out....
Continue reading "Ron's got her blog up and running!"Posted by Chris Clarke at 03:41 PM
Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)April 26, 2004
Viene la mujer
La Llorona weeps in the night, the darkness wrapped around her like a shawl. "ĦAi, hijos mios!" I hear her through the open window, grief braided in the wind. Her hair is long and black. I cannot tell where she...
Continue reading "Viene la mujer"Posted by Chris Clarke at 09:59 PM
Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)Giant metal corvids
I think Paul found the garden statuary I've been looking for....
Continue reading "Giant metal corvids"Posted by Chris Clarke at 08:03 AM
Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)April 25, 2004
Murphy's Law of Karma
Our neighborhood is overrun with feral cats. Yesterday, one chased Thistle across the yard, frightening the bekrishna out of him. This particular cat was a tiny kitten two years ago, one I scooped up and held in my hand at...
Continue reading "Murphy's Law of Karma"Posted by Chris Clarke at 10:43 AM
Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)April 24, 2004
This morning
Thistle...
Continue reading "This morning"Posted by Chris Clarke at 09:40 AM
Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)April 22, 2004
Stained glass, stained hands
Butuki posted something in comments over on Beth's blog that I've been using as a signature in my work email: "Every day I fight against the hardening of my heart." Some days, that's a bigger fight than others. Some days,...
Continue reading "Stained glass, stained hands"Posted by Chris Clarke at 02:41 PM
Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)April 21, 2004
Quiet
I'm sorry for not being here more often the last week. I've been battling some weird unspecified illness that, while somewhat flu-like, has no particular externally manifested symptoms, Just a general queasy malaise and low energy. I'm better today, just...
Continue reading "Quiet"Posted by Chris Clarke at 03:02 PM
Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)April 15, 2004
Battling my prejudices
A phone call came in a couple months ago from a student at the University of Arizona. She was working on a study of attitudes about diversity among respected environmental editors, and asked if I knew any. We chatted on...
Continue reading "Battling my prejudices"Posted by Chris Clarke at 04:25 PM
Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)No event too tragic...
... that it can't be cashed in on....
Continue reading "No event too tragic..."Posted by Chris Clarke at 08:12 AM
Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)April 12, 2004
Easter empiricism
On Good Friday, we removed the bunny's huevos. But three days later his stones did not roll back. Can someone tell me what we're doing wrong?...
Continue reading "Easter empiricism"Posted by Chris Clarke at 05:19 PM
Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)April 09, 2004
The anatomy of hypocrisy
On September 15, 1963, a terrorist bomb tore through the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four 14-year-old girls in the congregation were killed, and a horrified nation recoiled. Birmingham was one of many Southern cities beset by violent...
Continue reading "The anatomy of hypocrisy"Posted by Chris Clarke at 08:35 PM
| TrackBacks (0)April 08, 2004
Ichthus
When Matthew and I were in the Mojave Desert last month, we stopped at a chain diner one night for supper before finding a campsite. The diner was in the town of Mojave, which is slowly dwindling away after being...
Continue reading "Ichthus"Posted by Chris Clarke at 03:58 PM
Comments (15) | TrackBacks (0)On the bombing of mosques
Beth says everything I wanted to say....
Continue reading "On the bombing of mosques"Posted by Chris Clarke at 08:32 AM
| TrackBacks (0)April 07, 2004
Fraternizing
Zeke and Thistle have become very close. Each afternoon I come home, scratch Zeke's head, put Thistle on the floor, open the back door, and the two of them trot out to the backyard to play together. The same...
Continue reading "Fraternizing"Posted by Chris Clarke at 10:29 PM
Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)April 06, 2004
Animals by which I have been bitten, annotated version
I've gotten enough questions about the previous post that I figured I'd better explicate a bit. mosquito (several species), blackfly, horsefly What you're assuming here is true. I was born in Upstate New York, flying pest country. human One in...
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