I was reading recently the book “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert, and in it she points out a big difference between our human species, and other human species that existed (i.e. Neanderthal and Denisovans). Other human species, as well other great apes (a group of which we are a part of), did not, by…
Miss you dad
First camera
I was barely six. Just arrived from California to live with grandmother. I discovered in grandmother’s room a closet full of magical things. National Geographic magazines, rings, bracelets and pictures, beautiful pictures of people who looked like me. Who stared at the camera with dignity. Images i wanted to reproduce. My grandmother then showed me…
Conflict
Los Angeles - 1970 Both my father and mother worked very hard, and very long hours. My father as a machinist in a company that made packing materials and my mother as a clerk for a clothing manufacturer. I was too young to be left alone all day so for many years I was sent…
Iced tea
Friendship makes life worth living
By now you may have read the viral story about the unexpected friendship between Charles Barkley and the late Lin Wang, a cat litter scientist from Iowa. It’s a pretty moving example of the power of connection, how one of the greatest basketball players of all time met and befriended a stranger in a hotel bar,…
Graycloud Approved
As part of this site i will be posting reviews of my favorite (and not so favorite) stuff, travel, accommodations, etc. I encounter along the way - the rating will be simple -Graycloud Approved Or NOT Graycloud Approved Because what does it matter if something is sort of good or has good qualities. You will…
My brother the camel
We appear to have the same lips.
"People in large quantities are terrible." -- Catherine Lacey
You’re not yourself!
...i was recently told. I'm not myself? How? What did i do? I am unsure yet, really...it has bee a series of things that have been going on with my life. My book is essentially stagnant at this point. This i have been sending copies to Mexico for schools to share i was deeply disappointed…
Graycloud 