Tag: cycle of life

• The Great And Silent Feast

  I felt the breeze… I stumbled on a tree root when… Finally, we reached the pond… Concentrate. Start over. When I was a teacher I was often given the dubious privilege of “lunch duty”. A room, nearly the size of a gym, filled with 5th & 6th graders…or 9th & 10th graders and a hand…

  patrickjegan

  October 9, 2016

  Blogging, Everyday Events, Food, Nature, non-fiction, North Country Life

  Adirondacks, autumn, cycle of life, decay, fungi, lichen, rebirth

• Cause and Effect: My Front Porch Dilemma

  Today, on my front porch, I was faced with a dilemma.  I was a witness to an act of nature, an act that is repeated a billion times each minute here in the North Woods.  If you factor in the endless variations on this particular situation that occur world-wide, then the number is incalculable. But…

  patrickjegan

  June 27, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, humor, Nature, Real Personal History, satire

  Adirondacks, black flies, Charles Darwin, cycle of life, dragon fly, John Muir, life and death dilemma, moral dilemma, mosquitos, spider webs, spiders