Applause erupted from the filled Boettcher Concert Hall as Jennifer Koh walked onto the stage, carefully clutching her 1727 Stradivarius violin for a program of Baroque music composed by two contemporaries Bach and Vivaldi. Guest artist Koh soon had the audience mesmerized with her ability to lift the notes from the paper, deftly translate these […]
As we entered the stockyard arena, the unmistakable fragrance of livestock sent me tumbling back into a past life. It was a horrific sight for a 9 year-old farm boy to see on a northern Ohio late summer afternoon. There was Pal, my hoped-to-be prize winning sheep dangling from the wire fence, its right front […]
First the sound, then the sight of a sea of people appeared over the crest of the hill on East Colfax Ave. The surreal sight of an empty artery through the city was suddenly replaced by tens of thousands of like-intended people marading[ 1 ] past the gold leaf doom of the State Capitol to […]
Four…. Three….. Two….. One…. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Right on cue, the tops of the buildings on The Strip of this City of Lights erupted into flares of red, green, yellow, and blue fire in celebration of the upcoming Gregorian Year 2011. Gail and I learned from the Universe Story that the upcoming year is more […]
In Part #1 of this post, we discussed our purchase of solar powered LED colored lights. We included a brief description of how this human creation harvests current sunlight during the day, converts this light energy into electrical then chemical energy stored within a battery so it can be released after nightfall to create colored […]
Thanks to our adult children who are advocates of Permaculture and all things sustainable, we became aware of solar powered lights this year. Yes, these lights are on sale at retail stores such as Target, where they are marketed by Seasonal Specialties L.L.C.; produced under the Philips brand name; and manufactured in China from Earth’s […]
Driving west on I-70 after sunset, for at least 20 minutes we were mesmerized by the artist’s brilliant red sunlight painted on the bottoms of dark cumulous clouds. With an ever changing canvas, the light faded and the clouds melted into the now black sky covering this vast landscape of the arid Southwest. Mother Earth […]
This article will provide an overview of the BBC documentary “Rebecca’s Wild Farm” (Please check out the five parts of the film) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xShCEKL-mQ8&feature=player_embedded Viewing the “Rebecca’s Wild Farm” on LinkTV was particularly exciting for me because this thoughtful documentary captured much of what I had been thinking about over the past several months. In August […]