I should have said– and will now– to check in just in case something that is actually important comes up. I would not brag that most of what is reported here is important in the grand sense– but my defense of animal- human bonds, the “Old Ways”: partnerships, “jobs”, memes– IS. I helped push back …
Month: December 2014
Hiatus
As I am becoming extremely slow, I need to organize my time. I have found that spending hours on the Internet, or sitting in this chair, is both uncomfortable and destructive of time. The only way I am going to get my next book started is to take some time off– December? Won’t know til …
Future possiblities…
Salim Ali shooting swallows with his 20 bore Jeffries in northern India before the war; Suydam Cutting and Arthur Vernay rather earlier. Anyone know why we should know who they are? (We should).
Irresistible
If dark. Roz Chast cartoon via David Zincavage.
Synchronicity?
Not at all the right word, implying as it does same TIME, when times are different. Suffice to say that I noticed these correspondences many years ago, and others keep finding them and sending. I know. The recent photos, of Betsy and salukis and a giant staghound (Riley) were taken here between 80 and 86. …
Scaled Quail
Taken by Daniela, who visited today, down by Alamogordo.