A Snail, a Sea Lion, or a Systems Analyst “Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely a metaphor. And the landscape in...
Dolphin Breaching with the Sun “The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal...
Falling into the Sea of Cortez “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi These are the...
King of the Pelicans I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top. –Psalm 102:6 Pelicans are so comically gregarious on land, but the moment they spread their enormous wings, there is no...
