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Mental extinction
Have been studying in a coffeeshop downtown for two hours and still haven't answered my first question:
"Why has documenting the actual extinction event of a species proven difficult. Choose one example of extinction from “The Song of the Dodo” and explain the process as described by Quammen. Provide an OUTLINE of the uncertainlty surrounding the ( Read more... ) -
Greatness
I want to share with you a few quotes from my reading material for my classes. There are some inspiring and interesting nuggets buried in the volumes of information I'm required to ingest each week and I don't want to lose those nuggets. So I'll be posting them here. Forgive the disjointedness of it all.
Frances Hasselbein, CEO of the Girl Scouts ( Read more... ) -
Red list
An interesting link that I came across while studying for "Conserving and Restoring Biodiversity", the IUCN Redlist is the most comprehensive list of endangered and threatened species worldwide.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
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Face to the Sun
It stuns me how much things can change in a year and I feel incredibly blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life. I took a chance, a leap of faith in leaving Spokane's familiarity and moving across the state this year, but every step of the way someone was there to walk with me, to ease the transition, whether I looked for that or not. ( Read more... ) -
....like a trail of breadcrumbs
Items I've lost or left behind this month:- 1 pr shoes
- 1 pr ski pants
- 1 hairbrush
- 1 cell phone charger
- 1 cell phone
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Go Join the Mountaineers!
I was struggling up the steep trail with my overloaded pack.
"If you make a 'v' with your feet, toes out, it'll be a lot easier," he said. It was easier!
"Where'd you learn that?" I asked.
"From hiking with the Mountaineers."
And I vowed to join a Mountaineers group the next chance I got. So, last night I went to the orientation session for the ( Read more... ) -
traveller's woes
I write this post from the Minot Public Library, where I have just paid $2 to use the internet for an hour as well as $2 in three year old late fees on a long expired library card. I should be on a train headed back to Washington, but the train is seven hours late. I left my parent's house yesterday evening in a blizzard. Just getting here was an ( Read more... ) -
Snow.....
When I moved here they told me it wouldn't snow. "Snow never lasts more than a day here. It just rains all the time." And yet, I waded through a good foot of white fluff in my yard tonight as I went out to take hot water to my landlords' chickens. At this point the five chickens and I are the only ones here, in the deepest snow Olympia has had in ( Read more... ) -
Back in Spokompton...
I drove back eastward with K on Saturday and am spending the week in Spokane, determining whether or not the old saying is true, "You can't ever go home again ( Read more... ) -
Why am I doing this again?
The further into the quarter I get, the more I question my decision to do this program. I decided on an MPA because I am passionate about social justice and fighting poverty. I see the MPA degree as a tool to help me fight poverty at it's roots and eventually maybe change some of the public policies that keep people in poverty. Also, I'm here in ( Read more... )