Selections from Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsletter:
PHILOSOPHICAL RAMBLINGS
- 102.5° F, Whales & Visitors from Outer Space
- 3 + 4 = 7
- 3 Things Going to The Right
- 3.6° Colder & Useless Gestures
- 6 Miracles of Nature
- 6th Miracle, but Surer Now
- 60% Chance Cancerous
- 99.97% and a Question
- A Look at Río Lagartos
- A Perfect Black-necked Stilt
- A Song in Every Tree
- A Tree Not Far Away
- A Walk in Pisté
- Acacia Reflections
- Acquittal
- Addicted to Distraction
- "Adequate"
- Adolescent Roosters
- After Nirvana, the Laundry
- Afternoon Clouds
- Alive on The Beach
- Allegory for Drug Use & Suicide Prevention
- Altruism
- Amoooooooooooor...
- Ant Beneath A Leaf
- Ants in My Casita
- Ants on The Road
- Antelope or Elephant?
- Anti-Nuke Spirituality
- Apple-tree Haiku
- Army Ant Philosophy
- Army Ants, Elephant Ears & Phi
- Artful Creator
- Atman
- August, Yellow Butterflies, but No Li Po
- Awakening on Llano el Caballo
- Aztecs
- Bad Cats
- Badmouthing Katrina
- Barbara's List
- Barklice & WorldCom
- Barn Swallows & Beethoven
- Basil Seedlings Deploying Solar Collectors
- Bea's Sugar Maples
- Beach Jazzlet
- Beakful of Feathers
- Beauty Has a Use
- Beauty of the Sixth Miracle of Nature
- Beauty of the Standard Blossom
- Beekeeper's Smile
- Beethoven Bird
- Begonias & Basil Seedlings in Sunlight
- Believe in Nature
- Believing in Blister Spiders
- Big Church Lawns
- Biodiversity Important for Health & Sanity
- Bird Flocks, Breast Milk & Trust
- Bird Spring Fever
- Bird Therapy
- Birds in an Acacia Tree
- Birds Hitting Windows
- Bitter Pozol
- Black Cow, Foggy Dawn
- Blue-black Grassquit's Hard Work
- Boom-boom, Croak-croak
- Boom-boom Music
- Botfly Revelation
- Buddha in Xcalacoop
- Buddha's Cloud
- Bug Babies
- Bug, Basilisk, Snake & Me
- Burritos Update
- Calluses
- Campfires & The Middle Path
- Camping
- Camping beside the Sea
- Camping with Octavio Paz
- Ceiba Fuzzballs
- Charles's Chorus
- Cherry Wisdom
- Children on a Spaceship
- Chopped Onions & Hot-Sauce
- Chilly Fog & Cabbage Leaves
- Chopped Okra
- Church in Hoctún, Yucatán, Mexico
- Cicadas, Dry Wind & Sycamore Leaves
- Circles within Circles
- Clarity
- Clothes Drier
- Clouds
- Cloud Watching
- Clouds in The Valley
- Cold Crow over Windy Grass
- Cold Days at Peace
- Cold Snap
- Colors of Simplicity
- Communing with Mustard Greens
- Colors & The Human Spirit
- Collapsed Dream Homes & Lost Tent Pegs
- Comforting Visions of Vultures & Maggots
- Complexity & Simplicity
- Composition Waiting to be Admired
- Composting the Dominant Paradigm
- Computer, Compost, Bullfrog & Art
- Conspiracy Theories
- Conservatism & Liberalism in Nature
- Corn, Hibiscus & Nuclear Waste
- Corncrib Honeymoon
- Cosmos Flower
- Cowbirds, Storm, and Me
- Coyotes Calling
- Cracking Pecans
- Currents of the Season
- Dandelion Salad & Poke
- Da Vinci Code, Global Warming, & Truth
- Dawn Rain
- Days of Perfection
- "Dear Spinoza,"
- Death of a Duckling
- Death of an Ant
- December 21, 2012
- Deer in The Scrub
- Dew Tangerine
- Dewdrop
- Dieter's Garden
- Digging Potatoes
- Disappearing Jobs
- Disconnecting
- Disconnecting & the Brain
- Disorganized Zone of Disturbance
- Disruptions
- Does Nature Teach Patience?
- Do Animals Think & Have Feelings?
- "Do Not Sow or Reap"
- Dog Eyes
- Dog Guru
- Dog Philosophy
- Dog Philosophy 2
- Dog at the End of the Road
- Dog with Blue-gray Eyes
- Double-Take: Two Dogs & A Boa
- Dove Hunting Season Opens
- Downsizing
- Drumbeat in The Alux Grove
- Dumb Love & Patriotism
- Dusk at the Canyon's Edge
- Dying Green
- Earthworms Don't Lie
- Eating Granola (Muesli)
- Eating Green
- Ecology of a Rope across The Road
- Education --> ...
- Egrets, Herons & Ibises
- Electricity Goes Out
- Elegance is A Compost Heap
- Elephant-Ear Communication
- Emotional Design
- Enchanted City at Dawn
- Enchantment of Palms
- Eric's Laugh
- Estuary Water Entering the Sea
- Ethical Living
- Everything is Natural
- Evolving, Coalescing Social Consciousness
- Expectations
- Fast Evolution
- Fat
- Field Cricket Tintinnabulations
- Filter Bubbles
- Fine-tuning Buddha
- Fine-tuning the Middle Path
- Firewood & Solar Cookers
- Five Trainings for Mindfulness
- Flâneuring in Dzitas
- Focusing
- Focusing Down
- Forest Democracy
- Forest Succession
- Four Noble Truths
- Four Points of Being A Maya Man
- Frog Eggs & Religions
- Frog Eggs, Version #2
- Frost & Green Tomatoes
- Gaia
- Gaia on the Road to Tezomón
- Gardeners are Nice People
- Gardening in Dystopia
- Garlic Clove Therapy
- Garlicky Stews
- Gasoline Makes Pistons Move
- Gathering Firewood
- General Revelation & the Six Miracles
- George Washington's Frugality
- Ghostly Glow on the Greyhound's Ceiling
- GMOs & Simplicity
- Gnarliness
- Goethe's "Travels in Italy"
- Good Use for Philosophers
- Grandma Taylor
- Grape Ethics
- Grasshopper Meme
- Green to Make the Head Swim
- Grid-Looking
- Hamburger & Beer
- Handmade Burro Saddle
- Hanging Clothes to Dry
- Happiness
- Happiness With & Without Mentality
- Happiness & Spinoza
- Hard Times for Wasps
- Harmoniously Humming
- Healthy Looking Folks at Wal-Mart
- Heat's Long-Wavelenth Thoughts
- Hermit's Impressions (traveling, 2001)
Heron Chaos
- History is Natural
- History Of Western Philosophy
- History's Cycles
- Hole Beside the Hut
- Homosexuality in Nature
- Honeybee Sting
- Honeybees & Φ
- Horse Manure & Buck's Truck
- Horseflies & Rachmaninov
- Hot, Breezy Afternoon Thoughts
- Hot, Dry Wind
- How I Met Sally-D
- "How Pretty He Was... "
- Howdying the Universal Creative Impulse
- Human Evolution Needed Boneheads
- Hummingbirdness
- Hunting & Gathering
- Hypoglycemia & Spiders
- If There were An Einstein Tadpole
- Iguana Fights, Money & Enlightenment
- Illusions
- Inner Peace
- In Search of...
- Inside a Bean-Vine Tepee
- Instructions for Living a Life
- Intelligence
- Intelligent Design
- Intergalactic Dust
- Into a Bubble of Calmness
- iPhones & the Tree of Life
- It's Really Beautiful, isn't it? Isn't it...?
- "It's the Sign... "
- June Apples
- June Sycamores
- Juniper Group Polarization
- "Know Thyself"
- Katrina's Growl
- Katrina's Nose
- Keep Out Private
- Knowledge is Sacred
- Land, Water, Justice
- Last Monarch Butterfly
- Late December Light
- Laughing with the Seventh Miracle
- Laziness & The Water Snake
- Learning to See
- Lettuce Feelings
- Les Misérables, Lenin & The Tree Called "Spring"
- Liberace Rooster, Gloria Childs Hen
- Lichen Discovery & Phi
- Life-Changing Meditation in Three Steps
- Life Paradigm
- "Like Seeing Things for The First Time"
- Lino's Metalwork
- Little Girl in a Bus Station
- Little Guava
- Little Maya Villages
- Little Prince's Scarf
- Lively Little Towns
- Living without A Refrigerator
- Looking at Royal Palms
- Lucy's Revolution
- Maggie's Obsessions
- Maidu (California native people)
- Mars's Next Visit
- Maya Energy
- Meaning of Life, The
- Meditation
- Meditation for the Winter Solstice
- Melodious Blackbird at Dawn
- Mental Exercises on the Road to Tekakán
- Mice in a Red State, & a Thought Experiment
- Microsoft & My Old VW Bug
- Middle Path, The
- Middle Path & Plato
- Mind Jungle
- Moments of Perfection
- Month of Easter
- Moon's Passage
- Morning Campfire
- Morning-glory Morning
- Morning Motmot
- Mountaintop Removal, Rage & The Human Character
- Mushroom Fugue
- Music of the Spheres
- Mustard-green Spaceships
- My Radiant Visualization
- Naming Breezes
- Nancy's Confabulations
- Nasty Social Rumblings & The Six Miracles of Nature
- Natchez Naturalist Newsletter, the Book
- Natural Paradigms
- Natural Spirituality Not So Complicated
- Nature Jazz
- Nature Study Therapy
- Nature's Arrow
- Navigating by Silhouettes
- Neatness as Abomination
- Negrita's Nips
- Nervous, Unsatisfied People
- New Introduction to A Birding Trip through Mexico
- Nostalgia, Wistfulness, or What?
- Not Economically Feasible
- Not Saying Anything
- Nothing is Unnatural
- Occultism in The Mountains
- Ocean's Edge, At the
- October Passions
- Odor of Freshly Ground Wheat
- Odor of Mint
- Odor of Yellow Jessamine
- Oil Spill Philosophy
- Old Hens & Quantum Mechanics
- Old Man of the Milpa
- On A Symmetry in The Human Condition
- On An Amamola Flower
- On Being a Machine
- On Being Stung by Bees
- On Being Thrown Off the Internet
- On Being Turned On
- On Changing the Textures of Life
- On Living Gracefully
- On Living the Newsletter Life
- On Not Saying Anything
- On Really Seeing a Seed
- On Seeing Like A Caveman
- On the Beauty of Convergent Evolution
- On the Beauty of Hunkering Down
- On the Beauty of Raising Hell
- On the Beauty of Relativism
- On the Ecology of Human Diversity
- On the Five Kinds of Love I know
- On the Gift of Cold, Rainy Days
- On the Joy of Studying Flower Anatomy
- On the Merest Hints of Scents & Hues
- On the Pleasures of Paying Attention
- On the Pleasures of Simple Tastes
- On the White Noise of Life
- On Things Other than Medium Size
- On Turning Sixty
- One Thing, and a Nice Day
- One Thing, A Rock, A Tree, & Me
- Optimism of Bird Migration
- Oslo Bulk 9
- Owl Peeps Trending Toward Joy
- Pacaya Palm & The Future of Humanity
- Parque Eulogio Rosado
- Parrot Looking At Me
- Passing Through Felipe Carrillo Puerto
- Percentages
- Persimmon Pudding & My Big Gamble
- Philosophizing Like Grandma Moses
- Picking Up Trash
- Picking Up Twigs
- Pickle Juice
- Picnic
- Pig Feed, Quelite & Magic
- Pignut Teaching
- Plato & This Newsletter
- Plum Leaves
- Pokeweed Esthetics
- Preclassic, Classic & Postclassic
- Presence & Position
- Primitive Magnolias
- Profoundly Encouraging Thought
- Pup with A Wagging Tail
- Putting A Price on Nature
- Quantum Mechanics & Balché
- Rain in Mexico City
- Raindrops
- Rained-on Hut
- Random Cloud
- Rarity
- Rat & Cat, Sea & Me
- Rattlesnake Alive
- Reading Tolstoy
- Reading Xenophon
- Reason to Save a Bird
- Reflections on Being Poisoned
- Refresher Course on What I Believe In
- Religion, Atheism & The Middle Path
- Remembering Fahrenheit 451
- Revolution, Education & Sustainability
- Revolution Day in Pisté
- Right Brain, Left Brain
- Rising and Falling
- Ritualization
- Road to Temozón
- Robin Kimmerer's Lichens
- Robins & Hawks
- Robins Fall Silent
- Robins, Mozart & Me
- Round Head & Ear Infection
- Running in Starlight
- Running toward Alpha Cenauri
- "Sales are Down"
- San Isidro Day, Triangulated
- Savoring the Sense of Leaving
- Scouting
- Sea-Garbage Spirituality
- Seasons & Landscapes
- Seeing Beyond Nostalgia's Pig
- Seeing but Not Seeing, Knowing but Not Knowing
- Seeing the Sky
- Self Discipline
- Self Discipline & Simplification --> Enrichment
- Senses
- September Feeling
- Shadowy Forest
- Shaman Without Portfolio
- Sheep, Fleabanes & A Cold Nose
- Shooting Flamingos
- Shortwave Static
- Siesta
- Silk Cottontree in a Secret Place
- Simlicity Fist
- Sitting in the Rain Naked
- Sitting in Sunlight
- Sky
- Sky Compassion
- Sky Orientation
- Sleep
- Slope Baroque
- Slugs, Snails & "Mu"
- Snake Brain
- Snake Brain, Spinoza & Scientific Pantheism
- Social Conservatism, Two Takes
- Sociobiology
- Solar
- Song Spirit (On a Brown Thrasher Theme)
- Songs without Words
- Soup Jazz
- Spaceship Earth Allegory
- Spaceship Me
- Sparrow Colors
- Sparrow Tao
- Spinoza on Free Will
- Sprawl
- Standing Up for Clover
- Story Teller (Split-brain stuff)
- Struggling toward A More Articulate Croak
- Stumbling
- Stumpy Meadows
- Summer Solstice Feeling
- Sunlight Enchantment
- Sunlight in A Tortoiseshell's Wings
- Sunlight, Wind & Karati Dog
- Sunny Spot Beside The River
- Sustainable Rock-&-Roll
- Sycamore Totem
- Tadpole-Inspired Thoughts about Life
- Tadpoles Over the Edge
- Tadpole Conclusion
- Tadpole Thoughts
- Talking to Silence
- Tapdancing with Sandpipers
- Teachings of A Grasshopper Nymph
- Teachings of A Sparrow at The Feeder
- Teachings of An Orange Flower
- Teachings of Chicchan Ch'o'
- Teachings of Chicken Poop
- Teachings of Tepakán
- Ten Commandments
- Tenting
- Terriers, Schnauzers & Weeds
- Texting & Going With the Flow
- The Bite
- The Canyon
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died
- The Hawk
- The Radio Dies
- The Sign
- The Sky is Blue
- The Universe, Facebook & Intestinal Worms
- Thinking about The New Year
- Thoreau, Chinese Landscape Painting & Bitterness
- Thought-Tangent of a Rainy Day
- Thoughts About Growing Spiritually
- Thoughts about Magic
- Thoughts About Obsessive Thoughts
- Thoughts beneath The Mesquite
- Thoughts for the Winter Solstice
- Thoughts on A David Orr Essay
- Thoughts on Animal Rights
- Thoughts on Cleansing Oneself
- Three Flycatachers & Fracturing Social Order
- Three Levels of Seed Enchantment
- Three Perfect Poles
- Three Ways to See Beauty
- Toad-squashing Morality
- Tomantzin
- Tomato Flower
- Too Many Toads
- Tortillas
- Tree of Life
- Tree of Life in a Golden Nature Guide
- Trees
- Trickster
- Turmeric Rhizomes in Morning Sunlight
- Trumpism in Nature
- Tweeting
- Two Minds for The Road
- Two Years of Mail
- Venus & Jupiter
- Virgins in Pickup Trucks, Rockets, & the Solstice
- Virtue
- Viruses & The One Thing
- Visit to Pisté
- Voluntary Simplicity
- Waiting for The Light
- Waiting for The Rainy Season
- Waiting for Toucans
- Walking as Therapy
- Walking with Austin
- Walking with Carl Jung
- Wander Birds
- Warm Breezes
- Warming in The Sun
- Wasp Slaughter
- Wasp Thoughts
- Wasting Food
- Waves
- Waxwings & Robins
- Wealth
- "Weed" - the Word
- Weed-Slip
- Weedy Kids
- Weekend Drunks
- Wendell Berry & the Maya
- What is "Nature"?
- What Lichens Teach
- What Orchids Teach
- What Pumpkin Seeds Teach
- What to Do When There's Nothing to Do
- White Cloud, Blue Sky, White Butterfly
- White Morning Glory
- Why are So Many Plants Medicinal?
- Why Army Ants?
- Why Bother with Butterflies?
- Why Bother with Preserving Species?
- Why Destruction Might be So Much Fun
- Why do Chiggers Exist?
- Why Does Experiencing Beauty Feel Good?
- Why Does Sex Exist?
- Why I'm Against Nuclear Power
- Why Slugs?
- Why I Use the Term "Creator"
- Wind
- Wind
- Wind in Río Lagartos
- Wind Singing
- Windows
- Worms & Magical Realism
- Worshiping Rocks?
- Winter Landscape
- Winter Solstice & The One Thing
- Winter Solstice Seen from Mexico
- Winter Solstice
- Winter Solstice, 2015
- Wisdom of the Orange Mosscap
- With a Song in My Heart
- Woodpecker Solstice
- Yin & Yang of Jalapeño Stews
- Yearning
- Yielding & Flowing
- Zen Sufi Hut
- Zombie Ants & Smart Dogs