Sunny Side Up

Two works from the lovely Santa Barbara Museum of Art resonate with my experience bringing reflections on the religion of trees to the ISSRN...

  On Santa Cruz Island yesterday

ISSRNC was good fun! This society, soon to celebrate its 20th anniversary, was established to add a social science dimension to emerging wor...

The optional ISSRNC field trip to Santa Cruz Island was splendid!

Apologies for radio silence this past week! I was enjoying a family reunion, then knocked out by military adventurism and its showboating se...

I didn't dare! This was a wonky article I published a quarter century ago .

In the middle of the boneyard (and this photo), a new Torrey Pine rises!    Torrey Totoro was keeping watch!

Torrey Pines Extension

What was the news from America today? A wannabe generalissimo wasted tens of millions from the public purse for a lackluster military parade...

Saturday's going to be transformative. There will be gatherings everywhere, at every scale. It'll take time but we'll turn the t...

Stationing the military in a US city (not to mention against the wishes of the city's mayor and the state's governor) is another uns...

Update on what's doing, and isn't doing, in the Lang courtyard maple world - the broken spring sprig , and hopeful treelets  among t...

"Occupation" was maybe still sort of a metaphor when she wrote this .

Thought we were done with the 'nones'? The latest analysis of the religiously unaffiliated in the US, who have been the subject of ...

As another terrifying day of the carnage presidency unfolded this morning, our rector received applause after a sermon. We don't do appl...

A friend shared this sweet prayer for Pentecost by Maren Tirabassi .

After No Mow May, NYBG's "daffodil hill" is doing just fine!

Thank you to WaPo 's Michelle Kondrich for this visualization of what this aggrieved white male supremacist government is trying to do ...

I've always wondered (well, once I knew about it) why the eminent radical historian E. P. Thompson should have been the speaker at the i...

At school yesterday, enjoying the summer's peace and quiet, I betook myself to the courtyard to be with the trees. I mostly hang out in ...