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Lynn & Donn’s L.E.A.R.N New Years Letter 2021

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An ERTHAWARE Photo-Essay – Welcome to our Noisy Human Planet

Greetings ERTHAWARE Friends (who deeply care about the health and beauty of our only home-planet), Last week Lynn and I had a most fascinating experience in our back utility room, the place where we have a washer and dryer, a shelf for spare vases, cooking utensils, recycling bins, key ring hooks, cleaning supplies, mop, rain [continue reading…]

Stranded on a Mountain Road: Part 2

Dear Family and Friends, You received the first part of the story of how Lynn and I went on a casual one day picnic outing Tuesday morning in the Olympic National Forest to see the snow scenes in an area only locals know. But our car became stuck in ice and snow in a remote [continue reading…]

Stranded on a Mountain Road: Part 1

Dear Family and Friends, Most of you know by now that recently we went on a casual one day picnic outing in the Olympic National Forest in an area only locals know. But our car became stuck in ice and snow in a remote area. The temperatures were near zero degrees Fahrenheit and we had [continue reading…]

An ERTHAWARE Pelican-New Year of Hope

Dear ERTHAWARE Family and Co-Adventurers in caring for and celebrating the wonder of Life on our tiny home-planet, We send to you our deepest thoughts of love and hope for this Holy-Day Season and the New Year! It brings us great joy to think of many of you around our world (and in many cultures) [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE REPORT #208 “Wild Country after Conferences”

Dear ERTHAWARE Adventurers, Thank you for your patience. It has been well over a month since I sent out our last ERTHAWARE REPORT, mainly because of my recent two journeys. This has also thrown me off with the big bunch of Emails that accumulated while I was gone, and with my 2 finger hunt-‘n-peck slow [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #207 “Startling Clarity”

Dear ERTHAWARE Sojourners, There are in life rare moments of such startling clarity that it leaves one drop-jaw breathless. As many of you know, I prefer foul weather photography that accentuates the play of light and shadow and the sensuous reveal and hiddenness of topography that gives drama and experiential depth to a scene. I [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #206 “Where have all the Butterflies Gone?”

Dear ERTHAWARE Friends The response was overwhelming to our last ERTHAWARE REPORT #205 with the pictures of this years alpine wildflower displays. A number of you local northwest residents enthusiastically took the journey to find them. Some were successful; others, not quite. In nature, a delay of a few days or a week can change [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE REPORT#205 “Growing to Understand True Beauty”

Dear ERTHAWARE Co-Explorers, In our last report on August 3rd we left you while we were standing next to 15’ (4.6 m) snow-drifts in mid-Summer. While much of our little planet has been experiencing record heat waves, droughts, floods, and storms this year, our small Pacific West-coast corner of the Earth has had record cool [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #204 “Enlightenment within the Clouds”

Dear ERTHAWARE Adventurers, To celebrate the end of July we drove into the high hills to check the fingerprints of summer. I overheard impatient grumblers at the “Scenic Lookout” cursing clouds that violated the cloudless postcards on display for a dollar — all is hidden. “Let’s move on!” Such transient gawkers want instant full nudity, [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #203 “Sex and Holy Dancing”

Dear ERTHAWARE Watchers,  SEX and Holy Dancing? What does this have to do with our awareness of the Earth?! And why the play on “Holy Dancing” versus “Dirty Dancing?”  Our tiny home planet careening through Space attached by an unseen gravity-tether to the nearest star, which in turn is tethered to a Black Hole at [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #202 “The Miracle Under the Old Blue Bench”

Publisher’s note: All pictures in this report are displayed full-size; you do not need to click on them for a larger image. Dear ERTHAWARE Observers, A few weeks ago Lynn and I were sitting in our backyard Adirondack chairs while absorbing some rare rays during our record cool Spring when we noticed a female Oregon [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #201 part 3 “The Inescapable Problem of a Savage Beauty: Our Shaking Home Planet”

Dear ERTHAWARE Explorers of our little Planet, I’m so glad you survived Harold Camping’s mistaken prediction of a sudden Rapture on May 21 for his exclusive brand of believer, and his coldly calculated prediction of a horrible rolling global earthquake that would kill millions, but also exhume the dead bodies of billions. Now let’s finish [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #200 “Shuffling Towards Summer on Mayday”

Dear ERTHAWARE Adventurers, (a Haiku) Mayday sun warms, Harbinger of summer… Strap on snowshoes! At the end of April, I called Dennis who had just returned from a winter in Arizona. “Denny, you desert softy – you need to go for a walk in our hills. This is our real home. It looks like Mayday [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #199 part 2 “The Inescapable Problem of Savage Beauty: a Great Ball of Fire”

Dear ERTHAWARE Friends, If any of you have traveled south on Interstate Highway 5 in northern California and topped the Siskiyou Pass at dusk, if the weather was favorable as you descended towards the town of Yreka and Weed, you may have seen one of the great geological sights in western America, the massive volcano [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE REPORT #198 part 1 “The Inescapable Problem of Savage Beauty: some thoughts about Earthquakes”

Dear ERTHAWARE Planetary Citizens, In the next three episodes of the ERTHAWARE REPORT I want to say some things about earthquakes. I will start with the story below. A month ago after several days of Winter storm, the day dawned with stunning clarity. I walked the 60 paces from our front door to the edge [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #197 “Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary”

Dear ERTHAWARE Travelers, Behind our cottage we have a small barn that was built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is made of rough-sawn old growth lumber. The grandparents of the couple who built the first cabin here over a century ago (that became our cottage) lived in this uninsulated barn. Tough people. [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE Report #196 “The Courage of Love amidst the Impermanence of All Things”

Dear ERTHAWARE Friends, Every day Lynn and I try to have at least one special “slow meal” together in our home in spite of diverse schedules. From menu, choice of organic ingredients, preparation, table setting to presentation and room atmosphere, everything is intentional — sort of like a liturgy with shared sacrament, or almost the [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE REPORT #195 “Living Holiday Ornaments Expanded”

Dear ERTHAWARE Compatriots, The response to our holiday living-ornament pictures celebrating the mushrooms we photographed in the Buckhorn Wilderness Area late October was so enthusiastic I thought I would end 2010 by sending you 6 more pictures taken the same day. These 12 pictures (the 12 days of Christmas) are a fraction of what is out [continue reading…]

ERTHAWARE REPORT #194 “Living Ornaments from the Soils of Mother Earth”

Dear ERTHAWARE Citizens, At the end of this year of 2010, Lynn and I, Dennis and the Pudgemobile, and Doctor Nate would like to express our appreciation for all of you who have joined our novice journey of discovering the wonder of Life on this almost infinitesimally small spinning planet rotating in an outer arm [continue reading…]