I recently learned of a new word - solastalgia. Environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht combined "solace" and "nostalgia" to describe “a type of homesickness or melancholia that you feel when you’re at home and your home environment is changing around you in ways that you feel are profoundly negative.”
Read MoreI've been on a journey, that started months before we'd all heard of coronavirus, of studying rocks. And I've wondered, "What is it that rocks would tell us if we could understand their silent language?" This question seems apt right now as the noise of our busy lives has suddenly shifted to a much quieter place - the confines of our home and the company of only our closest kin. What is it that is speaking to you out of this newly acquired silence?
Read MoreThey tumbled out onto the street where the hawk grabbed the dove and was about to take off when a pack of three ravens swooped in, squawking crazily, and chased the hawk with dove down the street, all of them flying just inches above the pavement…
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