Month: July 2022
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Reintegrating with Nature: Humans, Nature, and Hermes in Archaic and Classical Greece
If you’ve ever encountered a predatory animal while hiking, you’ve felt the need for Hermes’ powers. Hermes it was who first laid the paths to get around by land and who kept them safe for human-use following Herakles’ heroic efforts against the beasts of the past like the Nemean Lion and the Hydra. If you’ve…
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There are some who will outlive us all
Does anyone else feel this intense foreboding I’ve been feeling but haven’t been able to escape for a few years? An expression of that, as an expression grief and a consolation.
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The Dance Among Mountains
Dancing with Apollo, the Muses and Athena, some of the poet’s patrons, in Tucson.
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Who was ever accepted/with a research statement in verse?
After I submitted a second PhD application to transfer into a different program + a view of the natural world I’d brought into a bland subdivision yard.
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Special Series: Reintegrating with Nature
An introduction to the series on reintegrating with nature as individuals and as a species, as well as how we got to this point of removal from the natural worlds to which we belong.
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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What are the Names of the Sierra Nevada?
Reflections on what to call the ancient beings currently known as the Sierra Nevada.
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On My Palestinian Flag
Reflections on advocating for disadvantaged peoples who’ve faced oppression far worse than what’s being inflicted in Ukraine, but whose oppression comes with US-tax-dollar funding.
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On the Bristlecones: Ancients Facing Multiple Threats
On the oldest living beings on our planet, the Bristlecone Pines of the White Mountains on the California/Nevada Border, and the threats they face as the climate changes.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 