Paddling the Pembina
In a canoe, late June, and Phil has broken out into one of his old Morris songs as we paddle the Pembina. Along the banks are coal seams. Exposed, punky, bitumi...
Category: Nature
Orion Magazine
“Orion,” according to the Boston Globe, “is America’s finest environmental magazine.” In 2010 Orion again won the Utne Independent Press Award for General Excel...
Grow Mercy’s Year-end list of unfounded propositions
Welcome to Grow Mercy’s revised and expanded year-end list of unfounded propositions, or things I believe but can’t prove: Time, love, quarks, discrete ma...
Winter solstice jetsam of a happy bystander
Salmon, asparagus and rice, cooked over a wood stove, a few lines from Merton and Purdy, is all that’s needed to live out this year’s longest night....