A Meaning for Bird Conservation
Bird protection connects this journal’s themes of rampant versus endangered populations, nature conservation and the philosophy of going beyond right and wrong to transform these challenges. Landmark...
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Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part II
This blog is a gift. Way back in 2002 I entered the Landmark Communication Curriculum to “get my ideas and thoughts out into the world.” I came away still with that intention, among a few unexpected...
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A Meaning for Bird Conservation, Redux
Life has no meaning. Try that on. There is no purpose. What do we do with that thought? What do we do without it? Both the same: we hand over the choice of meaning to others: to religion; to...
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Publish and Be Damned
To a learning-to-speak two-year-old my father must have seemed like the Iron Duke. I chose to shut up. (Today’s dads, please note.) And I shut up for fifty years – all my choice. How could my father...
View ArticleThank You Anyway, Prize Cow
A story whose meaning keeps coming back to me. My prize cow was a career in computer programming, which I killed in 2002. I’ve been working its old patch of dirt any number of ways since without making...
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2010 Newsletter
Subscribe to Newsletter Email: Visit this group That’s what I may as well call it, so long has elapsed since the last one. I’m hardly abusing folks’ email addresses! On that subject this is the last...
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The Mission
The most important thing about me is what I can do for Planet Earth. It needs all the help it can get. So whatever effort I make and whatever money I earn goes straight back to the World. The most...
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Tree or Meadow?
In the context of Bradnor Hill on the Welsh edge of Herefordshire you’d think meadow. This National Trust property is basically a golf course, which means greens surrounded by scrub, such as pictured....
View ArticleFrankenstein: Cause for Complaints
I’m revisiting this review in time for Bristol Book Club’s Meetup next week. Over two years ago 49p in one of those discount bookshops outside Bideford got me a copy of Mary Shelley’s classic and, to...
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