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Welcome, Returning Light!
The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is […]
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In case you’re looking to donate somewhere before the end of the year: Hill Country Ride for AIDS
While you can still get a tax donation for charitable donations, I’d like to ask for donations for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS. Here is how your donations help: Fierce
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Snowy Owls and Trumpeter Swans are Snow Birds to the Pacific Northwest
Juvenile female Snowy Owl, Sandy Point WA November/December, 2017 At the Edge of the Salish Sea These two snowy white birds have recently returned to our area after summering and breeding in Alaska (Trumpeter […]
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VNV Tuesday: Giving Tuesday 11/28/17
Giving Tuesday is not just a marketing ploy like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. It was started six years ago: Created by the team at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd […]
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The last Sunday Breakfast
I regret to say that this will be the last diary in this form. The immediate reason for this is that I have other engagements on the next two Saturdays which will preclude my being […]
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Sunday Breakfast
Let’s start this week with something relatively uncontroversial – the imminent defeat of IS, and the thoughts thereon of Patrick Cockburn: Fierce
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Sunday Breakfast
This is a quick diary because I’ve got other things to do, so I’m only doing English-language sources. But it was a remarkable week, because POUTS was temporarily deposed from the top slot in America’s […]
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Fall Colors and Mountain Goats in the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area
North Cascades Mountain Goat (Oreamnos america) grazing on huckleberries and grasses on a warm October afternoon. What a beautiful specimen, well muscled with thick lustrous white fur and appearing very well fed. Mount Baker Wilderness Area, […]