What’s it called again? Not Vashon. Vancouver, no, I know it’s not that! Brisbane? No, it’s… Bainbridge? Yes! Let’s take the ferry to Bainbridge Island! My wife and I were in Seattle doing Seattle things. After enough big city shopping, Pike Place Market touring, and clam chowder munching, we sought a new adventure. She had […]
Screen doors slumbered, sedans snoozed, spaniels snored. Subwoofers sat silent. Trucks denied their evening driveway idles. Cell phone blathering had long ceased or else faded toward a swallowing ether. Dinner dishes washed, dried, and shelved. Homework finished and the little ones off to bed. Crickets deigned to elicit a peep. Empty windless deserts; slipper-shod ghosts […]
I spoke with Bill Devall only once. Our discussion took place via telephone. The call lasted approximately five minutes. Before our phone conversation, although we had never met, Bill Devall had played a seminal role in changing my life. In preparation for graduate school, I read Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. The book, […]