I am walking with my eyes and mind this week among our best friends on Earth via a spectacular surrogate, the book by Tony Rodd and Jennifer Stackhouse, Trees: A Visual Guide. University of California Press: 2008.
This past week my grandson, Drew, showed me his FiveFingers shoes and gave me his book on the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall.
Excerpts from Lincolnland Legends Scholarship Essay, by Larissa Hong, senior at Normal (IL) Community High School
Amazing life and light interact within and outside the “un-museum” of the California Academy of Sciences within Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The building, using a variety of recycled materials, forms the greenest museum on Earth.
The Earth crisis is worse, even though the Gulf crisis is horrendous.
One estimate says the Gulf spill will eventually surpass 100,000,000 gallons.
Last Saturday I led a ceremony in which intergenerational teams planted 7 bur oaks and a variety of 16 other trees. We planted bur oak saplings in Bur Oak Grove next to 12 mature bur oaks, including one over 6 feet in diameter and older than the US.
