June 2012 - Posts

Nothing doing


29 June 12 11:49 AM
For the cost of sitting by the edge of the bay, doing, well, nothing, I got to see a skate's wings rhythmically slicing through the water's surface. I got up, walked along rhe edge of the beach as the animal gracefully glided along in knee deep water. Read More...
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Counting cats in Zanzibar


24 June 12 10:55 AM
It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Walden , Henry David Thoreau It's all about the stuff. Don't call it matter. It's all about how the stuff changes. But don't call it energy. I found this caterpillar on one Read More...
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A great day to be a Bloomfield Bengal!


20 June 12 06:46 PM
Tomorrow our Class of 2012 will walk to Foley Field to receive their diplomas. It's is hard to capture the culture of any particular high school, but our kids recently put together a video that did just that. (Full disclosure--they included me around Read More...
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Lightning bugs and honeysuckle


19 June 12 08:17 PM
If you're not outside at dusk these days, go there. The lightning bugs in Jersey are ridiculous now, and the dusk honeysuckle aroma wraps around me like Granny's afghan. Light matters for the cerebral among us, but the honeysuckle takes me past language. Read More...
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A life worth achieving


17 June 12 10:02 AM
The process of science has not changed much the past few hundred years. It's messy, always has been. Our worldviews, the concrete ideas we carry around in our heads about what's real, are no more solid than the mass of goo we hold in our skulls. It's Read More...
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Midsummer madness


14 June 12 07:02 PM
We pretend otherwise, but we're living in times of magical thinking. And this is dangerous. If you're reading this on a monitor, you are probably directly connected to a turbine somewhere, turning a magnet in a huge coil of wire. The light that's triggering Read More...
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Good is not good enough


07 June 12 06:38 PM
I'm in a dangerous place, not unusual for June, when Light exposes our frailties and conceits. I love the idea of public school, but I fear what it produces now. And it's going to get worse. Tomorrow I will lead my merrie band to the beach--they will Read More...
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Pixels and plastic


06 June 12 04:18 PM
I've spent the last couple of days asking kids to look at horseshoe crab molts. The molts are (mostly) unfamiliar, with all kinds of tiny surprises. We're going to Sandy Hook in a few days to see some live ones in the bay. I can't draw. The vast majority Read More...
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Lightning bugs, again.


04 June 12 09:01 PM
On Saturday, I wandered down a spit of land that splits two sounds. It used to hold a railroad track, but the ties have been replaced with a bed of sea shells. Thousands upon thousands of sun-bleached whelk shells lay in piles. Along the way I saw a diamond-backed Read More...
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June, again


01 June 12 05:45 AM
June again--I liked this one in 2010, and I still like it. I want to crawl face down in the fields and graze on the wild strawberries, my clothes stained pink, even for seven years if I must, if they exist. I want to lie out on my back under the thousand Read More...
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