by Warren Gaston | Jan 3, 2017
The double bind of our human nature; the more human we become the more unnatural we are. To date, our human enterprise has been to become less and less a part of and more and more apart from the natural world. Because of this, humanity suffers and the biosphere...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 1, 2017
Let’s say you woke up one morning to a world completely to your liking. You liked the news, yesterday’s, the week before, the year, and history, all centuries, and quite likely you will like tomorrow, the future, and the future’s future after that. Predictions....
by Warren Gaston | Dec 31, 2016
I am old and I deserve the privilege of being around old things. Now most things around me are new. When I was a child I was surrounded old things. Our neighbor Mrs. Cedarholm was old. She lived in an old farm house on the edge of town. She was surrounded by old...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 26, 2016
Our everyday speech is salted and peppered with poetry. Swear words are poetry. They pour verbal gasoline on whatever linguistic fire we have started. Compare “I hate you” with “F . . . you”. Which has more emotional punch? Every time we use ‘like’ to compare one...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 22, 2016
low winter branches deer caught in broken shadows fractured sunlight
