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Owl's Farm: August 2015
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. But not so fast. After discussing the situation with a polite young man, we discovered that I wasn't eligible to upgrade yet, due to The Contract, which doesn't allow for any improvements until January of next year. I could, of course, just flat out buy the phone with no. Image credit: Teléfono de cordel, from A. Guillemin, El mundo físico: gravedad, gravitación, luz, calor, electricidad, magnetisimo, etc. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). More News From Nowhere.
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Owl's Farm: September 2014
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Sunday, September 7, 2014. Celebrating- and Questioning- Wilderness. N September 3, the Beloved Spouse and I celebrated (or at least acknowledged) our twenty third anniversary. As it turns out, the Wilderness Act. Marked its fiftieth anniversary on the same date- unbeknownst to me until I read a message from Orion Magazine. Which is my main source of environmental commentary these days. Would put it) human affected (with the possible exception of volcanoes in the remote hinterlands of Iceland). The book ...
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Owl's Farm: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Earth Day 2015: Drought and Denial. His morning (I'm working ahead- this is Sunday, the 19th) I went out to empty the wheelbarrows I'd been using around the yard yesterday, because we had a thumper of a thunderstorm last night that dropped at least an inch of rain in less than an hour. I even went out and moved Vera to the porte. The irony of all this is that as I type, another wildfire is roaring away near my old stomping grounds in southern California (the Highway Fire. Meanw...
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Owl's Farm: January 2015
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Saturday, January 24, 2015. Ometimes it actually becomes possible to act on a desire—to fulfill a pipe dream or a deeply held wish. So, after innumerable years of daydreaming about owning an old travel trailer (specifically, a ‘60s era Shasta Airflyte), the planets and stars finally reached a favorable conjunction and we got one. It also turns out to be a terrific dog car, which we found out by dragging the Guthrie boys to California and back over our winter break. Links to this post. The Owl of Athena.
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Owl's Farm: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Well, Here I Am. Ven though I haven't been posting lately, I've been preoccupied with events and notions closely related to typical Farm content. The combined influences of Hurricane Sandy, the recent election (and the particular Texan brand of whining that accompanied the results), and my continuing ambivalence about where I want to spend the rest of my life have brought me to the point where I've just got to get some stuff off my chest. Been watching the new Ken Burns. Only,...
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Owl's Farm: April 2013
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Saturday, April 20, 2013. Earth Day 2013: Small Steps. The first celebration I actually remember took place in Philadelphia in 1973, and I still have the poster I bought during those festivities. Today it happily adorns my kitchen wall and reminds me that in this little corner of the universe, every day is, in some way, Earth Day. A couple of years ago a conversation on Orion. I'm talking water-savings here, in a drought-stricken region, rather than money, because monetary savings are small ($9/year or s...
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Owl's Farm: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Life (and Death) in Tornado Alley. His time of year, folks around here are somewhat obsessed with weather: justifiably so, especially in view of what happened in Moore, Oklahoma. One reason why I've always considered Texas as a place of exile is that the region scares the crap out of me on a regular basis. I can handle the heat, humidity, and bugs, but the tornadoes are another story. I spent an entire day in a bathtub in April of 1979. What prompted this post in the first place wa...
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Owl's Farm: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Living In Interesting Times. His post will ramble a bit, but I hope to arrive somewhere. In the end. It's prompted by several recent events and the general state of the world as I find it, approximately a week into my first quarter in over twenty years as an adjunct instructor. And has eaten most of the covers off all four volumes of the Loeb edition. Viking 1 lander site, July 21, 1976. To a youngish (early thirties; my first child- who grew up to design spaceships- had been born...
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Owl's Farm: June 2014
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Thursday, June 26, 2014. Summer Is Icumen In. R ather than celebrating the coming of this particular season with Medieval rapture, I'm tempted to substitute Ezra Pound's snitty little salute to winter ("Lhud sing goddam! In place of "Lhud sing cuccu! This is, after all, Texas, and it's only by the grace of some current climatic weirdness that we're not slow-cooking in our own juices already. Until I read Akiko Busch's op-ed post in the New York Times. Last Friday ( The Solstice Blues. As it turns out, I'...
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Owl's Farm: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century. Arly on, in my misspent youth, I aspired to be both good-looking and smart. So I read Vogue. Magazine when I could afford it, looking for interesting ways to dress on my embarrassingly meager salary, so as to attract interesting men. I didn’t get very far with this ambition, but I was apparently attractive enough so that after my first divorce I dated highly intelligent men with Good Prospects. By shamming intellectualism, I actually ...
