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2019 is about used up, but the number 2020 intimidates me, like I should be seeing clearly now. Wishing you a new year which feels like t...

I was told nothing was blooming at Torrey Pines. I was misinformed!

Some textures of Anza-Borrego & Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve.

... but the ocotillo is blooming!

Just a little to the east and up a few thousand feet... snow!

My parents' friend Herb Knufken is the great photographer of Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve. The best images in their ann...

As 2020 approaches, I'm realizing it'll be a bit of a challenge to return to "Religion and Ecology" next semester. It...

" In scandal, find reconciliation ," a sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent I watched yesterday, opened my eyes anew to just ...

Our understated Christmas decoration seems less likely to wake the baby than some, like this extravaganza at Del Mar's Dog Beach. ...

Who said it never rains in Southern California? We got an inch yesterday!

About 386 million years ago, a forest stretched from what is now New York State to Pennsylvania, and part of it got itself fossilized, in a...

You might have heard that the outgoing editor of the Evangelical magazine Christianity Today (founded long ago by American Evangelical sai...

  Two trippy landscapes from Leucadia

Just in time for the holidays, the latest (#28!) installment in our newer truer history of The New School at Public Seminar - my reckoning ...

Ethereal pinks and greens atop yellows and reds and blues...

Saw the Met's newish production of the old warhorse "Der Rosenkavalier" last night, and, despite a rare and wonderful appeara...

Leunig well describes the energy level at the end of a long semester.

Walking across Central Park from the Met last night after a rain, the air clear as glass, we were amazed to see a city that couldn't be...

As a once great political party makes clear its soul is signed, sealed and delivered to an authoritarian demagogue, a once great kingdom we...

Speaking of the Spring 2020 iteration of "Performing the Problem of Suffering: The Book of Job and the Arts," here's the wor...