Archive for ◊ September, 2010 ◊

Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Here’s a kid in his 40s called No Impact Man, the age of my children, who has done something I have not been imaginative or courageous enough to do.

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Author: Joe Grabill
• Sunday, September 26th, 2010

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• Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

On August 15, 2010 I relive a most significant, startling event, a graduate school event 51 years ago. This event occurs on a Friday in June 1959. At this time, to help pay expenses, Doris and I are renting out rooms upstairs and in the basement in our apple green house on the east side of Bloomington, Indiana.

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Author: Joe Grabill
• Sunday, September 19th, 2010

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

A Jewish lawyer said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Luke 10:29. Jesus said, “A Samaritan. A person considered inferior.” Today, Jesus would answer the question, “A green bulrush. A plant considered inferior.” He would spin the State Farm ad line, and say, “Like a good green neighbor, treat the 1.7 million species in the data base, Encyclopedia of Life, as you would like to be treated.”

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Author: Joe Grabill
• Thursday, September 09th, 2010

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, September 07th, 2010

The United States and the G8 rich nations refuse to commit to carbon targets to halt a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius. If the temperature rises 2 degrees the Greenland ice cap would melt, the ocean would rise several feet, and the Maldives nation in the Indian Ocean, consisting of islands barely above sea level, would be flooded out of existence.

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