Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
This entry isn’t supposed to have a point. It is just some random thoughts I was having while walking home from the grocery store this morning. Thoughts about how nice it was to see moist ground after a dry winter. The moisture had lured a fair amount of school kids outside and I remember thinking […]
Kurt Vonnegut pulled out a slew of catchy one-liners for his audience at the Ohio State campus March 1st. Among them: “all the money that should have gone into research and development has gone into executive compensation. If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.” “war is a […]
Today, two things happened that really gave me hope. The temperature rose to 70 degrees and I read Ralph Nader’s open letter to President Bush regarding hurricane Katrina, in which he said: Recall your dramatic, nationally-televised choreographed assurance, standing near the French Quarter, that the federal government would take the lead in rebuilding New Orleans […]
I get it, now. I understand the allure of the four seasons as experienced in the temperate zone. Over the years, we’ve heard a lot of people say they couldn’t live in the tropics because they would miss the seasons. “We have seasons!” we’d say, defensively, but they would just smile knowingly. Obviously, we didn’t […]
We all know pedestrians are supposed to wait for the little white walking man to light up before crossing the street. Unfortunately, this is not always the safest moment for pedestrians to risk stepping onto the crosswalk. Yesterday morning, I stopped at a traffic light and waited for it to change before walking across the […]