by Gary Simpson | Jan 17, 2024
“I have decided to stick with love…hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is rare that posts on this blog appear but a couple of days apart. However, a coincidence of two very different events that took place this week on...
by Gary Simpson | Jan 15, 2024
“Nobody is born in this country with genes that somehow understand and internalize what a democracy is, why it’s valuable, what’s expected of them as a citizen; we’ve gotta teach them. But we’re not teaching it. We are failing to pass on the culture, the political...
by Gary Simpson | Jan 1, 2024
“Looking back is a way of looking forward.” ~ Scott Wing – Paleontologist, and Curator of Fossil Plants at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution The month of January gets its name from Janus, the two-faced god of the ancient Roman...
by Gary Simpson | Dec 19, 2023
“The atmosphere responds to one thing: Emissions. It’s physics, stupid… And all the declarations, all the decisions, all the platitudes, all the announcements in the world, if it doesn’t translate into real world action that reduces emissions, is not worth the paper...
by Gary Simpson | Oct 11, 2023
“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.” ~ Augustin Burroughs. The older I get, the more I agree with the sage observation of Augustin Burroughs, “When you have your health, you have...