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Digital Maps to Nature Literacy

TOOLS TO MEET OUR NEEDS We create tools to work for us: to dig foundations, to hoist steel girders for bridges, to record our words and thoughts for others or capture a likeness of another in a silver emulsion of an early photograph. Over the course of history, need drives those who make things to […]

Posted byfredJanuary 8, 2021Posted inculture, Nature Literacy, OutdoorsLeave a comment on Digital Maps to Nature Literacy

So Where’s The Church?

Rock Hill Church Road was once a state-maintained road with a county road number (714 I think) that is now in VDOT limbo status of not abandoned but not maintained. There are three full time residences on a half mile of single lane gravel road. That said, it is named for a church that presumably […]

Posted byfredJuly 2, 2020Posted inculture, Environment, One Place Understood5 Comments on So Where’s The Church?

The Conversation: Feeding your Genius and Putting it to Good Work

How do we cultivate our passionate interests to grow genius to do good things?

Posted byfredFebruary 20, 2020Posted inculture, education, Reflections1 Comment on The Conversation: Feeding your Genius and Putting it to Good Work

Tools for Thought

It’s a niche interest, maybe; geeky, if you will. But I continue to explore ways that the computer keyboard and monitor that most of us have in our homes these days can do a better job of gathering information and meaning, and not just stupefying us with entertainment and distraction. Also, we presently lack good […]

Posted byfredDecember 9, 2019December 9, 2019Posted inComputing, culture, Tools and Tech2 Comments on Tools for Thought

Landscape, Place and Memory

This topic of recent interest holds the potential for a vastly expanded ramble, with a point and even a conclusion perhaps, in another life time. But for now… Suffice it to say that I have been revisiting the mysteries of memory, and the various historical ways humans have possessed it, or lost it–individually and collectively. […]

Posted byfredNovember 5, 2019Posted inculture, education, natureLeave a comment on Landscape, Place and Memory

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