How do you know when you love a book? I know when I resist finishing it. It’s a habit I picked up for Lord of the Rings. Today, I did finish reading the Bird Business, by Rohan Chakravarty: the illustrated peek into the daily… Continue Reading “Happy Anniversary: Bird BUsiness”
Category: Books, Entertainment, Environment, Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Science, tropical birds, World CultureTags: Art book, Bird behavior, Bird Business, bird courtship, bird dance, birding, BNHS, Book on Indian Birds, Book review, bushchat, cartoonist, courtship, dancing, Ecology, flamingoes, flashmob, florican, greater racquet-tailed drongo, Green Humour, Green humour cartoonist, Illustrated book, indian roller, Jacana, Mating, murmuration, sarus cranes, shimmy, shimmying, starlings, Wildlife art, wildlife illustrations
A little on art this year, as a post even if I am cataloging most of my art work under projects in my art portfolio on this blog as well. This year I visited India and made new contacts with nature enthusiasts, some professional… Continue Reading “Art 2020”
Category: Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Photography, Politics, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: barbet, biodiversity, birdart, birds, black paper, Butterflies, conservation, environment protection, Frogs, inspiration, MOEFCC, Oilpastel, pastels, prakash javadekar, Sattal, sennelieroilpastels, tree frog, wildlife conservation
Posted on November 6, 2017
by nootropicphilosopher
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I return from various trips and plan to write about them, I get caught in routine things or wallow in the vanity or vacuousness of anything I can ever write, those tales find places in the crevices of my mind. Some of them will… Continue Reading “Best remembered trips: Ayahuasca in the Amazon rainforest”
Category: Entertainment, Environment, Evolution, Philosophy, Photography, Travelogue, World CultureTags: Amazon rainforest, Amazon stories, Ayahuasca, Boat, Cures, Dennis Osorio, eco tourism, Guides, Hallucinogen, International Expeditions, Iquitos, Johnny, Latin dancing, Machete, Medicinal plants, music, Naturalists, Nature photography, Peru, Peruvian food, River cruise, Riverboat, Riverboat cruise, Segundo, Shaman, Snake bites, Tourism, Travel story, Travelling, Villagers, Zafiro, Zafiro riverboat
Wouldn’t it be so much easier if everyone lived simply, spoke freely ( not from fear, I mean) and thought highly of high matters. The idea of a perfectly simple solution to everything, including the silver bullet to cure cancer, stems from the fact… Continue Reading “The hazards of oversimplification”
Category: Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, World CultureTags: Chelsea Manning, complexity, Edward Snowden, freedom, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Oscar Wilde, politics, Whisteblowing
Posted on August 13, 2013
by nootropicphilosopher
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I have been accused ( and I might add correctly) of not liking enough people. Or any people. My dad routinely asked me to list the people I really liked, I think I always had real trouble after about 5 names. As I grew… Continue Reading “The kind of people I like…”
Category: Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Science, World CultureTags: admiring, caste system, castes, culture, democracy, dissent, Doublethink, evolution, honesty, integrity, justice, Orwell, Orwellian, religion, role model, tolerance, tradition, truth, vigilance
