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A little blast from the past, courtesy of Facebook: eleven years ago !

At my local polling station, they ran out of "I VOTED EARLY" stickers.

When I arrived in my office yesterday it looked like the colored objects on the window sill had gone to town on the leafscape. Today they re...

Shadow play!

Just a little north of us, fall is farther along. In this swamp it seems to linger at ground level in bright colors as the trees prepare for...

Behold the eye-popping view down on the Lang courtyard maples, through a gap in the window from my classroom on the 6th floor. I swooned Mos...

If one of the pleasures of New York City is the mosaic art in subway stations, and discovering a new commission is an extra-special joy, wh...

Time for my annual shpiel about New School history for the peer mentors of the first year class. It's different each time , even thoug...

May I say I am petrified thinking about the election in two weeks?  It's not just that the candidates are "neck and neck," and...

Two morning views of the Lang courtyard maples - looking across the courtyard toward my office window, and the view from that window.

  Central Park

After a bit of a hiatus, drawing is back in "Religion of Trees." Today's class was a working our way through representative ch...

"Theorizing Religion" did the AMNH "Asian Peoples" galleries one better today. After we shared our generally very critic...

Very pleased to discover, in the NYBG bookshop, that that tree-formed "History of Existing Life" we critically analyzed in "...

  Autumn colors at NYBG

Checked out that London Plane with no northerly branches we learned from the New School Forest archive was "holding the memory of its ...

Took the Religion of Trees students to the University Archives today, to learn about "New School Forest," the census of 340 trees ...

Religious Studies Roundtables are back! Join us a week from today for a chance to hear the faculty teaching our courses in Hebrew Bible, C...

Charmed hike in the horizonless Pigeon Lake Wilderness.

  Wonders high and low