I live on a small mountain next to a larger one. Both are modest as mountains go, but at 2600′ Mount Tamalpais reigns over the area like the queen she is. My apartment is halfway up one of her foothills. If I walk up a steep fire road for a quarter of a mile, I […]
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I fell down a 300 million-year-old rabbit hole recently, and had such a good time there I’m now bringing you with me. I was looking for something else and came across my photographs from a visit to Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia. The Canadian Maritime provinces were the first places George and I visited
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A friend who offers occasional guided meditations begins each one by asking us to imagine ourselves in a nurturing place in nature. I am invariably sitting on a forest floor. Trees reach high above me, leafy branches arching overhead, sunlight glinting through the openings between the leaves. That is peaceful enough, but the most important
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