Category: birds

VEGAN

I am so happy to know that so many humans care about other life forms The way most people feel about cannibalism is how I feel about eating animals I have been vegetarian since the 1970s and when I was younger i used to… Continue Reading “VEGAN”

MAGIC/QUANTUM PHYSICS

What we label as magic is actually quantum physics Einstein’s  E = mc2 I understood that time decrease with velocity in my teens (1960s) But it is thanks to Star Trek that I realized that matter and energy are interchangeable “Energy equals mass times… Continue Reading “MAGIC/QUANTUM PHYSICS”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

IN DEFENSE OF CATS

8.4 BILLION HUMANS ARE CONTINUING TO CAUSE THE EXTINCTIONOF ALL OTHER LIFE But instead of implementing zero population growth we blame cats Since the 16th century, humans have driven at least 680 vertebrate species to extinction. Our cultural norms and attitudes cause us to… Continue Reading “IN DEFENSE OF CATS”

magpies

In the retirement village where I now live there was a magpie singing on the back fence who wasn’t interested in food  Hence am re posting this which I wrote when still in Goolwa One of the few magpies that still come here (despite… Continue Reading “magpies”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

MID WINTER

It is Mid Winter here -Yule Mid summer — Litha in the northern hemisphere. The Wheel Of The Year: pagan festivals celebrating the seasons:  solstices and equinoxes. When the Romans and Christianity took over they could not get rid of these festivals: So every… Continue Reading “MID WINTER”

Friday 13th

Decades ago I researched the “Inquisition” as part of a lecture I was giving on Wicca. After the emperor Constantine made Christianity the religion of Rome there was a meeting at Nicaea to decide what to put in the Bible and what to leave… Continue Reading “Friday 13th”

AHIMSA

I tried my best to practice ahimsa before I was aware of this word/concept Impossible in a culture that believes only humans have a soul and only money matters As a child I got a bashing for not wanting to eat meat: The same… Continue Reading “AHIMSA”