My pal Larry, a distinguished and dedicated member of the Oregon State Police, was making his rounds near Vernonia, Oregon when he came upon a suspicious individual in a striped suit sitting in the road. As would be expected, he pulled over his cruiser and got out to investigate. As he approached, his observed subject […]
Light has so many beneficial qualities. It has the power to cleanse and purify. Anyone who has ever lived in proximity to cockroaches knows how they scatter as soon as a dark room is illuminated. The very phrase “brought to light” itself has been used for decades, if not centuries, to denote the disclosure of […]
In just a few hours I should be on an airplane leaving for England in order to attend the largest gathering of bird watchers anywhere in the world – the British Birdwatching Fair. I should be – but I won’t be. It just wasn’t in the cards (VISA or American Express) this year. For those […]
Have you ever had a magical bird moment? A brief moment in time while watching a bird when the wall separating the avian and the mammalian species seems inexplicably to become thinner and you feel as though you are able more purely to perceive the spirit of the bird itself? No, I haven’t been spending […]