http://partnershipforcoastalwatersheds.org/water-quality-abiotic-nutrients-and-bacteria-in-south-slough/?wptouch_switch=desktop This was the first stop. Next stop: Washington, D.C.! I’m bringing Mr. Obama a pickup-truck load of Catskill snow.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Dawn in Hackensack.
19-Jan-09Goin’ Down South
19-Jan-09To see what I can see. I’ll stop off and see friends and see a bit of the country. And I plan on being in D.C. for the inauguration.
Reading Tolkien
17-Jan-09Inspired by Helen Luke’s fine essays on The Lord of the Rings, I read through the books once again, something I had not done since freshman year of high school (or even earlier? It was during my adolescent phase, no doubt). They merit a fair amount of consideration. I put together a summary essay, down below, […]
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
17-Jan-09The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy from any but the publisher’s perspective: the story fits into three volumes, but it is not in three parts. Tolkien divided it into six “books,” and each book does have a unified field of vision, but none of them can stand on their own and none […]
First night!
16-Jan-09I successfully weathered the first subzero night on the mountain: -4 was the low last night. It’s not the coldest I’ve experienced, but it was pretty cold. When I woke, it was 39 inside the cabin. But once the fire was roaring there was no trouble. I had to change the oil in […]
Subzero.
16-Jan-09Snow All Day…
08-Jan-09… But only about four inches of accumulation. Very beautiful, though.
The Conditions of Life.
06-Jan-09Gandhi said that every man should clean his own toilet. Today I’ve taken a new step forward by installing my own. My old toilet cracked when I left water in it before leaving for Christmas – the water froze and broke its ceramic mold. It took me a few days to prepare […]
Sexuality and Church Teaching.
06-Jan-09American bishops just met in conference recently and issued a document calling on Catholics to live upright, Christian lives in accordance with the teaching of the Church. The document mentioned in particular the great disparity between the precepts of Catholicism and the actual practice of Catholics. The issues mentioned were the familiar ones: abortion, […]
This day, politically.
19-Jan-09Jizan There is always an appropriate quotation from Cicero, is there not? Tandem aliquando, Quirites, L. Catilinam furentem audacia, scelus anhelantem, pestem patriae nefarie molientem, vobis atque huic urbi ferro flammaque minitantem ex urbe vel eiecimus vel emisimus vel ipsum egredientem verbis prosecuti sumus. Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. Nulla iam pernicies a monstro illo atque […]