A list of common memento mori, literally “remember death”, short phrases to remind you that life is short & precious. Tempus fugit – time flies. Carpe diem – seize the day. Dust to dust – shortened from Genesis 3:19 – “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to […]
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Whither happiness?
For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizards’s rustling, a breath, a wink, an eye glance—little maketh up the best happiness. Be still. Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra and similarly: The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate […]
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Great Blue Herons
Great Blue Herons – icons of wetlands across North America.
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Simulation & Simulacra
The convergence of literature: For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these also are the selfsame tale and […]
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Let’s talk about Tardigrades
How big are they? Not very. Slow steppers are about a half a millimeter long. Where can they survive? Moss piglets are famously hardy and can survive in the vacuum of space. They can be completely dehydrated for 10 years, then rehydrated. They can survive in boiling water, the desert, the ocean, in permafrost and […]
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Gray Ghost Incoming
This photograph of a male Northern Harrier, aka the “Gray Ghost” is a hard one to get. Male harriers are white, females are brown. Northern Harriers aren’t uncommon in the Pacific Northwest, but the male to female ratio is 1:3 and the males seem to be somewhat more avoidant of humans. So to get one […]
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Collective Collapse
Why are people how they are? Theory of mind is hard and just when you think you’re getting okay at it, life humbles you. This is a great post by Dave Bailey on what you are really dealing with when you’re dealing with someone’s negative emotions or reactions. A couple examples: Overreaction is often a […]
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Summer Glow
Summertime swimmers–starting with a Pied-billed Grebe, then Mallards for the next three. All of these backlit shots were taken at a city park here in Seattle.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Five Dysfunctions is a business fable, which while it sounds cheesy (and maybe it is), the story really helps the message stick. I’ve read a few books like this and I’m starting to prefer the format to any other. Humans are hardwired to enjoy stories; it feels like a natural way to learn. There’s […]
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Video: American Avocet
One of my favorite annual birding trips is East from Seattle over the Cascades to Eastern Washington where American Avocets and Black-necked Stilts migrate up from Central and South America. This is a short clip of an Avocet preening in the early morning hours.