Recalling the highlights of my excursions into the heart of nature as I bid farewll to the lazy river of summer.
Bidding Farewell to the Lazy River of Summer
September 21st, 2024 Comments Off on Bidding Farewell to the Lazy River of Summer
Tags: Arrow Clubtail · Emergent Mayfly · Furrowed Horse Fly · Henry David Thoreau · last day of summer · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Pipevine Swallowtail
Confessions of a Hard-Core Clock Watcher
March 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Confessions of a Hard-Core Clock Watcher
A brief philosophical meander on the nature of time aided by Einstein and Thoreau.
Tags: Einstein · Henry David Thoreau · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · theory of relativity · time
Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
November 7th, 2015 Comments Off on Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
Grapping with the elusive quality of time and arriving at the conclusion that it can only be understood through metaphor.
Tags: calendar · Carl Sandberg · Charles Dickens · eternalism · feather in the wind · growing past theory · Henry David Thoreau · hourglass · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Nathaneil Hawthorne · presentism · sun dial · time · water clock