Hawksbill Turtle – Mar. 23, 2023
“Here thirty years ago she broke from an egg beneath a full moon. Dozens of other inch-long hatchlings clambered around her, over her, all of them together pushing out of their sandy womb and scrambling with her down the beach, looking for the moon’s liquid reflection to direct them to the sea. Slower ones were […]
Laysan Albatross – Mar. 22, 2023
“Every cell of an albatross is made from the sea. They trust what it gives them. But the current of the central Pacific, swirling between California and China, have been made a soup of cast-off plastic—billions of pieces that never completely decompose. Each year Midway’s albatrosses unwittingly feed five tons of these pieces to their […]
Goofy, Ridiculous Things – Feb. 10, 2022
“I suspect there will be no more apparently superficial delight than this one, given as I am swirling in a volley of birdsong, given the pine tree just beyond me has a branch like an arm bent into a greeting, given the near-glowing green of these trees against the soft blue of a misty morning. […]
