my delicious loose ends
Caring Deeply
“One of the downsides (or is it an upside?) of dragonfly monitoring is you begin to care—deeply—about things you may not have thought about before. A wetland is converted to a shopping center. The new parking lot that makes it easier to shop comes with a price in nature. Instead of celebrating a new coffee place, you wonder which dragonflies—and what associated plants and insects and members of the aquatic community—have vanished to make way for it. You see a meandering creek turn into a tightly channeled stream and you think of the effects on the underlying substrate, the bottom of the waterway.”
—Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies
Bird Songs
“The robin does not wait to ask if you like his song; he sings because he must.”
—Maud Slye (1869-1954), pathologist and poet
Genetic Engineering
“The geneticist Bentley Glass, in his address on becoming president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1970, argued that the ethical problem was not that people would embrace these new technologies but that they might reject them. “The right that must become paramount is the right of every child to be born with a sound physical and mental constitution,” he said. “No parents will have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.” —The Code Breaker
Read MoreRadiant Body of Light
“The earth’s time of transformation into a radiant body of light has arrived, and it is already changing so that its physical properties are no longer as they were, but are containers for the light that comes from the Highest. The human body, too, is changing, and as it does so to ever greater degrees, many more will develop the capacity to manifest the light of God within every level of their human experience. Out of this choice, a new and sacred humanity will emerge — one that is conscious of its relationship with the Creator and that shares with Divine intention, the possibility for creating a new and sacred, illuminated planet.”
Life is Delicious
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
