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- Goodbye, summer

Posted in change, leaf on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

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- Meager light

Posted in change, leaf on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Photosynthesis, which occurs in plants, algae, and some bacteria, uses energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. This is food, and plants need food to grow.
If you live in Massachusetts, you may have noticed that there has been what I would call NO SUNSHINE in all of June. Well, maybe there [...]

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- Incomprehensible

Posted in change, fear, mistake, parent on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The June 13th issue of The Economist is on the kitchen table, and Grace, who loves magazine covers, is examining it. I’m puttering around the kitchen. She asks, finally, “What does it mean?” So I lean over her shoulder and take a stab at explaining the visual metaphor: “Right now, the world is experiencing huge [...]

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- What are you letting go?

Posted in change, eat/drink, teach, travel on April 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »

On Saturday night in Berkeley, after trying (without reservations) to eat at Chez Panisse (the upstairs, less expensive café part), Betsy and I walked along the block for a while before deciding on Café Gratitude, a raw food vegan restaurant that practices sacred commerce.
Our young server, Natalie, with her bangs and long black braid, bright [...]

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- Dehumanized

Posted in change, teach on April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday I graded papers at my dining room table all day, and then last night too. I had to push myself: it’s a special challenge to stay motivated and energized lately about teaching tasks that are difficult even in normal times. (And these are not. As one of my MIT colleagues wrote to me recently [...]

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- A huge disconnect

Posted in body, change, leaf, risk, teach, travel on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

There is much beauty in the world and its people.
(Dear Reader, I beg your patience. In this post I’m going to attempt to start at beauty and end up at crisis. At this moment of beginning, I’m not sure I’ll find the path.)
There is much beauty in the world and its people. That is what [...]

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- Pink slipped, again

Posted in change, teach on March 4, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Last week I had a meeting with my boss, and I learned that my job in the writing program at MIT is ending with this semester. Others in the program, too, have lost their jobs or had their hours reduced.
Three years ago, a little later in the spring, I heard similar news from my boss [...]

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- Hail to the, er, crochet

Posted in change, stitch on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been wanting to put a photo of President Obama on my blog. However, I do have some editorial policies (admittedly, my own) that I follow, and his photographic image doesn’t really fit. He’s not very Leaf: not a gardener, is he? I suppose I could say he’s kinda Word; I mean, he’s a great [...]

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- Day one: salute

Posted in change, leaf, parent, word on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

These flags, marking the plain graves of veterans in our local cemetery, seem to me to be like the first bulbs of spring, in a way, pushing through as winter hangs on. They remind us to persevere, and look ahead.
I know, I know, my metaphor does not work perfectly, and yet no metaphor does. Still, [...]

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- Weather whipsaw

Posted in change on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Winter easing its grip on Northeast – The Boston Globe
Analyzing four decades of winter climate data, beginning in 1965, University of New Hampshire scientists found that regional temperatures are rising at a rate of 0.8 degrees per decade. Meanwhile, the number of days with snow on the ground is decreasing at the rate of 3.6 [...]

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