“The loss you don’t know about is no less a loss, but costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain.” Margaret Renkl “I remind myself sternly to attend to what is not dying, to focus as much on the exquisite beauties of this earth as on its staggering losses. Life is not atContinue reading “Help Save Birds”
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Long Live the Belle Isle Beavers
“For them, the song of the power shovel came near being an elegy. The high priests of progress knew nothing of cranes, and cared less. What is a species more or less among engineers? What good is an undrained marsh anyhow?” Aldo Leopold-A San County Almac Without the beaver, there would be no Detroit asContinue reading “Long Live the Belle Isle Beavers”
Industrious Double-Crested Cormorants
“Histories are shaped by who owns the camera and where they stand to shoot.” Bill Wylie-Kellermann I spend as many mornings in April as I can standing on a 100 year old drawbridge. This street is one of the main thoroughfares in the neighborhood I grew up in. The river below me was once so pollutedContinue reading “Industrious Double-Crested Cormorants”
Winter Recap
Red-winged Blackbirds are back so to me that means Spring is here. It has been a LONG winter. I spent a good portion of it focused on my family, or asleep honestly. I forced myself to get out at least once a week most weeks but I didn’t always have the energy to share whatContinue reading “Winter Recap”
About Me
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town” Henry David Thoreau “Attention without feeling is only a report.” Mary Oliver If you click on the “About me” section of this site, you’ll see my official Bio. I didn’t reallyContinue reading “About Me”
Fuck Their Fences
A few days ago the Detroit City Council voted against rezoning residential neighborhoods in Southwest Detroit to heavy industrial use. The rezoning was requested by Central Transport and the Moroun family. The proposed changes came up when the city swapped land they owned in SW for land the Moroun’s owned near the new FCA plantContinue reading “Fuck Their Fences”
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