Tag Archives: science

May6

chicken or the egg?

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today, mr. roger, our snowplow driver

came back to our room

and brought some of his favorite birds to meet us

these two are chickens named marco polo and maranella

and they are married.

his granddaughter has a chicken for a pet and reads with it

and he really loves birds

even more than snowplowing.

mr. roger even showed us some of maranella’s treasures – her eggs

and we had the chance to gently touch everything and ask all kinds of questions.

it was amazing because he knew all of the answers.

he sure knows a lot about a lot.

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“if I hadn’t started painting, i would have raised chickens.”

-grandma moses

Apr27

unravelling.

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public art found in the dequindre cut, detroit, mi.

(artist unknown)

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science is about unravelling nature.

n. r. narayana murth

Apr23

body of knowledge.

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another beautiful day for a peaceful walk in ann arbor

“science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

-carl sagan

Apr22

forest cake.

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“it’s a forest cake.”

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“the earth is what we all have in common.”

— wendell berry

Apr20

attention.

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when we set out on our hike 

to see what spring animals

were out there

we thought maybe

we’d see a bear

awakening from a long winter’s nap

though we most likely 

scared any creature

who happened to be in our oncoming path

or most anywhere in the vicinity

with our marching and laughing and yelling and jumping

and then

we looked closer

and at last

found an animal

passed over by many

who was not afraid of us

just waiting to to be discovered 

a single ant. 

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“life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

-nadia boulanger

Apr18

fruit of life.

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 aviary water ripples

 butterfly lands

penguins free swim

ibises play

—

all on a sunday picnic at the zoo with the family.

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“color is the fruit of life.”

-guillaume apollinaire

Apr12

the math of trees.

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when looking at the trees on the kinder playground

it’s easy to see how tall the little people are 

the green does not dare begin until it is

above and safely out of the reach of their tiny hands

even if they are standing on tippy toes

 pulling, climbing, bending, picking, snapping

the trees do the math and live to tell the tale.

—

“trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”

-zora neale hurston

Mar28

wingspan.

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at the nature center for grandie v’s 6th birthday celebration

the scientist helps us to measure our wingspans

before we take a stroll outside to find this beautiful bird

rescued and healing a broken wing

 whose wingspan we hope will return one day

and we are grateful to have our wings.

“happiness makes up for height for what it lacks in length.”

-robert frost

Feb9

fire and ice.

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just chillin’ in the polar ice cave

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when quite suddenly

a firefighter

from out of nowhere

makes a daring rescue

and

enters stage left.

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“it’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

-louis c. k.

Feb7

organized.

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m organized the world according to the animals.

some live in the water, some with grass and trees, some with sand and stone, and some with snow and ice. 
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“science is organized knowledge. wisdom is organized life.”

-immanuel kant