Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteYour Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com. I think everyone has a choice. One of the choices people are NOT making anymore is to spend time pondering. If you don’t keep … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI try not to take anything for granted, but I see coyotes almost every day – there are at least 3 distinct groups that live around our place. We try our best to co-exist. In the 20 years we’ve been … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday was the 40th ‘celebration’ of Earth Day. There were all kinds of self-affirming / damning (depending on which side you’re on) blog posts, articles, events, and news items. So today I ask, now what? Do most people go back … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesSPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t already know how it goes (and can’t guess) then DON’T read this post. I won’t tell you exactly how it ends, but guessing will be child’s play after reading … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesWe are making a mess of our planet. Whether you are a “believer” in the so-called ‘settled science’ of Climate Change or one of those heretics that the Movement derisively refers to as a ‘denialist’, most people would agree, however … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesMany people seem to believe that every natural place should be available for recreation, and that all other uses should defer to them. People who try to raise animals ethically and naturally repeatedly come under fire, but I don’t see all of North America going vegan any time soon, so eventually, the ONLY way left to raise animals for meat will be through factory farms.
Continue readingApproximate Reading Time: 13 minutesMy husband and I had dinner with a friend last night whom we both like and respect a great deal. We talked about many things, among them our attitudes about the human use of animals. My friend is a vegan, and we’re not.
I struggle with the moral issues involved and so I continued to think about this after dropping our friend off at his hotel. I try very hard to be logical and reasonable in my arguments. I suspect I may have not succeeded entirely on this one. But neither did my friend.
Continue readingApproximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThose who no longer have a connection with nature, with the animals whose lives we take for our food, and those who don’t live with animals, have lost something that in the end will turn out to have been very … Continue reading