Jutta Rubesam lives in Germany and has been a constant presence here through her Nhubia and Taalai, the two talented canine dancers who often grace our Weekend Doggage. In times past she visited New Mexico and took some of my favorite photos of my own dogs. Now she has been to Kyrgizstan and the shores …
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Petrified Wood
I have been working with a local land conservancy, the Cherokee Ranch, to help them develop a research and education program for archaeology. They already have a geology program started, and the geologists invited me to go on a field visit to look at petrified wood on the ranch property a few days ago. They …
The Two Sides of Wolves as Comedy
As enacted by a younger Lane B, who I am sure will have something to say…
Easter Doggage/ Impending Litter?
Riss and Aymoon: If you think Aymoon seems a little goofy, consider this photo of him in action. We already know that Rissy is a good girl.
Wolf Miscellany
I think there is an unstated human obsession with wolves, perhaps because they contain in essence both the genes of our species’ best animal friend, and the age -old simultaneous rep as humankind’s most visible enemy. Here are a few recent instances. I have always heard the some of the big Central Asian flock protection …
Good Friday musing on lines from Yeats
You know it: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Fools dominate the news. Too many good people in the west support a thuggish blowhard who refuses to accept the law while apparently trying to start …
Stupid Quote
You are going to have to search hard for worse. Tom McIntyre sends this masterpiece of po- mo ignorance from National Geographic’s Explorer- in residence (“Isn’t that an oxymoron?”), one Derek Joubert: “Hunting will one day be relegated to the category of awful things we did as humans, alongside apartheid and the Holocaust.” If you …
He is not an intellectual…
…and neither am I. On About last Night, Terry Teachout, possibly the most wide- ranging American critic and cultural writer, explains: “I incline as a rule to the mode of thought and feeling implied by T.S. Eliot’s remark that Henry James had “a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.” All history, especially …
Eagle Dreamers
I must assume that ALL my readers have seen some version of this: I have gotten over 100 emails, and they are still coming in. The one most saw was a BBC article (see David Zincavage’s blog), but I like the photographer’s, and his background info. It seems that the wild men of central Asia, …
Frustration
I have tons of material– John Wilson on sending some Mexican wolves to Mexico, with pics; all manner of current events; books to review (Paula Young Lee’s delightful Deer Hunting in Paris is way overdue); more poets to quote– Zarzyski!); foodbloggiing, imminent novels by friends, gyr coming…. And all I seem to do is catchup …