Water Under Ice
Yerba Canyon, Taos County, February 8, 2023. Water flow blur photograph.
I Got Mine by John Nichols
Novelist John Nichols writes about his life in a new memoir on the artistic process, I Got Mine.
Generally True Patterns
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature raison d’être Part 1 of 22 This series on generally true patterns in nature is offered at what may be the concluding moments of our civilization, the “Anthropocene”...
Generally True Patterns #1
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature raison d’être Part 1 of 22 This series on generally true patterns in nature is offered at what may be the concluding moments of our civilization, the “Anthropocene”...
Generally True Patterns #2
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature Part 2 of 22 Chapter 1 Patterns Part I: Above All Else, Nature Is Characterized by Movement East of where Santa Monica Boulevard ascends a steep hill...
Generally True Patterns #3
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as Part of Nature Part 3 of 22 Chapter 1 Patterns Part II: Above All Else, Nature Is Characterized by Movement My role is to act as a natural historian of pattern recognition....
Generally True Patterns #4
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature Part 4 of 22 Chapter 2 Part I Historical Connections of the Anthropocene In the mountains north of where I live, at tree line, the place above which the...
Generally True Patterns #5
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a part of Nature Part 5 of 22 Chapter 2 Part II Historical Connections of the Anthropocene Revealed (or actual) order is never complete in a non-static universe. Instead, nature...
Generally True Patterns #6
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature Part 6 of 22 Chapter 3 Part I The Search for Boundaries Energy can accumulate into useful function or dissipate into purposeless void. Either way it both creates...
Generally True Patterns #7
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature Part 7 of 22 Chapter 3 Part II The Search for Boundaries In this nonlinear universe, outcomes do not owe their trajectories to senselessness. When an action takes...