Poem By SIMON PERCHIK * This field has so many lips and though the fire is out these clouds still darken –each breath overflows with icy streams and stones left out to dry –it’s natural for a sky to let itself in the way your shadow on impulse looks down and in the open grieves with the only […]
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“Be kinder than you believe is necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle you don’t know about.”
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” – James Thurber
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Trash on Mount Everest has become quite an issue. In the last 65 years Mount Everest has been transformed from the most pristine area to a trash dump of camping gear, oxygen tanks, garbage, and human waste. The surrounding areas are also full of garbage from the lodges and villages where over 4000 people have used for their start of […]
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“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
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Global warming hits plateau. . . What does that mean for the threat of catastrophic climate change? Why has the warming trend slowed? Climatologists aren’t sure. What they do know is that the average air temperatures at the earth’s surface have risen only about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1998—the hottest year of the 20th century—even as humanity has continued to […]
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