by Lora | Apr 21, 2021 | Nature, Travel
On this, the day of Queen Elizabeth’s ninety-fifth birthday, the loss of her husband of more years than I have been alive is especially poignant. My mother adored the queen. Maybe sharing the war years of my mother’s formative teens created a bond. Or it...
by Lora | Jul 22, 2019 | Community, Nature
Don’t Blink! If you blink you could miss a moment! That is not to say your eyes must stay open every one of the 86,400 seconds of every day, or 604,800 seconds every week, or 31,536,000 seconds of every year … . I know the time I have spent with my eyes wide open has...
by Lora | Jun 21, 2019 | Community, Nature, Sustainability
I struggled with how to frame this news. The impetus for this post came to me on the radio on the 20th of May, declared World Bee Day. Bees support us. How are we bee-ing a leader to support them? What do we associate Bees with? Busy-ness. My spouse and I have been...
by Lora | Feb 13, 2019 | Nature
The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus Sula – known as boobies. You have most likely seen pictures of the...
