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Spring Light
Ephemeral wildflowers live most of the time under the forest floor as rhizomes, bulbs or roots. The category “ephemeral wildflowers” encompasses in fact the whole life cycle of the plants that manifest...
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From One to Another
As the forest canopy approaches completion, Jack in the Pulpits erupt to full size. A few are just ripe, but most are a visibly transducent green that the canopy itself manages to copy only for a few...
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About Mushrooms
In a previous post, I described the events leading up to my grandfather telling me, “You have to understand about mushrooms.” Learning recently about Charles McIlvaine, I recognized something of my...
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Drone Strikes in the Uncanny Valley – Part 2
In Part 1, I wrote: The visceral revulsion of many seems to indicate a sense that these drones have, or will assume a life of their own, that despite their clearly mechanical appearance, they inhabit...
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Drone Strikes in the Uncanny Vallyey – Part 3
Part 2 asserts that from the Uncanny Valley’s forest floor, the drone seems both an uncanny robot and a living nonhuman species. Of course neither is true. The drone is a remote appendage of a...
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Amphibian Digitism
the object has a similar interiority and a different physicality, and this I call animism…. the object is devoid of interiority but possesses a similar kind of physicality, and this I call naturalism....
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The Emptiness of Wang Wei
Karen recently gave me 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. This small book is a compilation of 19 translations of Wang Wei’s (7th century Chinese poet) poem, Deer Park, alongside an essay by Eliot...
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Another Sky Burial
While the spring migrating turkey vultures have passed through some time ago, and the fall migrators have yet to arrive, a resident population remains. In this area there are plenty of woods for them...
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In The Emptiness of Wang Wei, I transduced Wang’s famous eighth century poem titled, in English, Deer Park , Deer Enclosure or Deer Fence. “Transduction” is my term for a process that reworks a...
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