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PHOTO ESSAY: Trip to Indianapolis with Katarina for Earth Day Celebration

Though Earth Day was April 22, Indianapolis celebrated Earth Day this past Saturday, with an event at White River State Park, held in the driving rain, under many large tents with tables for innumerable environmental non-profits and eco-friendly businesses, many of them focused on preserving or restoring the land, water, air, and native species of […]

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Death Cafe Bloomington meets again!

Yesterday afternoon I attended the second meeting of Death Cafe Bloomington, this time at Rachel’s Cafe. (The first one, two months ago, was held in a a meeting room in the Monroe County Public Library.) We sat at the table empty in the foreground here, a dozen people crowded around with coffee or tea, many […]

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Ursula K. LeGuin: On Aging, and Beauty, and the Body

Worth contemplating. Ursula K. Le Guin on Aging and What Beauty Really Means by Maria Popova October 21, 2014 brainpickings.org “There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.” “A Dog is, on the whole, what you would call a simple soul,” T.S. Eliot simpered […]

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