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Hermit Musings (the book)
A self-published book is now available at www.lulu.com, that contains the first two years (171 entries) of this blog. Volume two (the next 171 postings) is also now available.
Blog Archive
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2009
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August
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- Milk Snake Eggs (will hatch in another week or so)
- A Physics Digest—Part 6: Light
- Poke Milkweed
- A Physics Digest—Part 5: Electricity and Magnetism
- Bald-faced Hornet Nest (We're keeping our distance)
- A Physics Digest—Part 4: Sound
- Sycamore Tussock Moth Caterpillar (Halysidota harr...
- Sycamore Tussock Moth Caterpillar (Halysidota harr...
- A Physics Digest—Part 3: Heat
- American Lady, wing bottoms
- American Lady, wing tops
- A Physics Digest—Part 2: Properties of Matter
- Tiger Bee Fly (parasite of carpenter bee)
- A Physics Digest—Part 1: Motion
- August is a Berry Good Time
- A Physics Digest
- Robber Fly
- Cardinal Window Woes
- Phoebes Just Hatched
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August
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About Me
- The Hermit
- The northern Shenandoah Valley is my long term—but not native—home. The Appalachian Mountains are my adopted surroundings. Having survived into my mid 70s, I continually muse upon the dichotomy of physically waning while still possessing what seems to be a youthful and dynamic outlook. At one time an engineer, I quit that life for one of simplicity, over three decades ago—exchanging an urban frenetic existence for the contemplative mode of a rural homesteader. The switch rewarded me with the opportunity to reorder my priorities and to pursue life’s more profound matters. I engage in my ongoing quest and challenges primarily as a hermit—having discovered that my journey currently seems to be mostly a solitary one. I find myself spending much of my time just trying to be attentive to the magical world around me—watching nature and my mind. The majority of my musings come to me during lengthy soaks in hot water in an outdoor tub, heated by an underwater woodstove, filled from an adjacent creek.
2 comments:
I like your picture.
Thanks. It was a beautiful fly and I had no idea that it was a parasite of the carpenter bee at the time, until I did some research.
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