January 8, 2011
My friend and mentor Beverly Rathcke passed away on Thursday, January 6, 2011. She died comfortably at home in Ann Arbor after a short illness. Beverly was my faculty advisor for my PhD dissertation in ecology, and in that role she helped me think critically and write clearly. Yet, she fostered more than my scientific [...]
October 19, 2010
I am grateful for Great Writers. They connect us to each other, connect us to ourselves, through voicing what is glimmering on the edges of our consciousness. By expressing these things, they bring them into focus and validate them. My father has been gone for over a decade now. When I was a child, he [...]
September 25, 2010
Today I enjoyed a leisurely 30-mile-ish bike ride around downtown Detroit on the Tour de Troit. We started at Roosevelt Park, by the amazing ruined Michigan Central Station, whizzed downtown and through Campus Martius by the Compuware building, crossed the Belle Isle Bridge and spun around the circumference of Belle Isle before stopping in Gabriel [...]
July 17, 2010
I love Michigan. I love living here for many reasons: The weather is fine for knitting much of the year, Snow lining tree branches is gloriously beautiful, Spring ephemerals and flowering trees are a miracle after ice and sleet, Fall is crimson, fiery orange, and golden leaves, enjoyed in crisp sunshine and then tossed by [...]
June 20, 2010
Happy Father’s Day. In May, my husband and I went to the Rock Shoppe in Plymouth, Michigan to find some stones for the edging of the pond in the back yard. It was a sunny spring day and we were wandering the extensive grounds looking for just the right thing – kind of greenish slate [...]
May 29, 2010
I just finished Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. It’s at least in part an eco-survivalist guide to finding your way in peak oil, climate change, and the forecasted hard times that will come from energy crisis. I don’t agree with it entirely, I have to say that I’m not as doom-and-gloom [...]
May 9, 2010
Things have been tense, and when they’re tense I’m drawn inward, away from the stress and complexity of other people. I feel like every where I turn I am hearing someone talk about writing – friends are turning towards writing books, I’m picking up books published by friends, a quick trip in my car gives [...]
May 2, 2010
I started to wonder what all of that knitting was doing for me. What I was expressing or replacing by knitting.
April 25, 2010
I’m pretty much unable to draw, though I doodle a lot when I’m thinking. Photography has been my visual outlet, and I’ve long loved taking photographs and sharing photographs with friends and family. It took me a long time to give up my film camera, but when I converted to digital, it was permanent and [...]
November 29, 2009
We moved into a new place in August. For a while there we were almost camping because we had the kitchen ripped out…it didn’t feel exceptionally homey. Our fabulous Ann Arbor construction crew gave us a working kitchen in our bump out just before Thanksgiving. We moved our plates, spices, glasses, and cookware into the [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105