Author: pkrafel
Just learning how to play with all of this.

Bonemeal – Cairns #45

From around November ’til April, a seasonal stream flows over the land. Heavy winter rains can swell it into a brown torrent a foot deep and fifty feet wide that can roll six inch diameter rocks along the streambed for

Swearing – Cairns #22

I rarely swear. It usually doesn’t bother me if other people do but my avoidance of swearing originates in a specific moment on a cross-country hike on the flanks of Mt. Lassen about ten years ago. It is a challenge

Cairns #2 – Cat twist of the Second Law

Helping turn the prow of our entropyship, the Earth, back upstream so that Earth’s evolving consciousness may explore the vast headwaters of the Universe for billions of years to come. Cairns #2 – Beginning of the Long Days, 1995 What

Watershed Awareness – Cairns #1

Helping turn the prow of our entropyship, the Earth, back upstream so that Earth’s evolving consciousness may explore the vast headwaters of the Universe for billions of years to come. Cairns #1 – End of the Long Nights, 1995 The

Scree

Throughout my forty years of teaching, I’ve often ruminated on specific instances when I learned something from a teacher. What was it about that interaction out of thousands of classroom hours that fixed in my long-term memory? What did the

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