The nights are dark here at the edge of the woods at the edge of town, especially in summer on days when the moon sets early. The glare of the central city still dulls the sky, but you can see the near planets and the brighter stars, and when I walk from my trailer to the house I look out into the inky black of the empty lot to the east and wonder what’s making that noise. That darkness is as much a part of the urban wildlife habitat as the trees, and even more threatened.
It amazes me how much your writing reflects the conversations I have with my family and friends as it relates to the river and the changing landscape/culture of Austin. I look forward to receiving your writing every Sunday morning.
Small worlds. Tim Rowe was working at UC Berkeley when I was doing my paleontological field work from there, surveying/exploring out in Montana. He brought a few of those California ex-pats to UT to set-up shop. Look forward to reading your forward to "Beta-Testing...".
So rich as always, Chris. And I’ll definitely pop over to FantaGraphics and check out “Beta Testing…”
One of the co-founders of Colossal Biosciences is George Church. He’s been working in the wooly mammoth genome in his Harvard lab for years.
Unrelated to that, in the mid-2000s his research was funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
It amazes me how much your writing reflects the conversations I have with my family and friends as it relates to the river and the changing landscape/culture of Austin. I look forward to receiving your writing every Sunday morning.
Small worlds. Tim Rowe was working at UC Berkeley when I was doing my paleontological field work from there, surveying/exploring out in Montana. He brought a few of those California ex-pats to UT to set-up shop. Look forward to reading your forward to "Beta-Testing...".
Excellent and thoughtful post, except I need a dictionary when I read your text. WB