
Cairns
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Thoughts from a sailor scientist amidst a climate crisis.
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Colombo, Sri Lanka

At sea, as the saying goes, two or three times a day you may look upon God’s face.

I have begun to feel differently towards the passing of time.

The snow makes people kind.

Before the Big Bang we were all crammed into a single point.

JP explained that it calms our mind and restores our attentive capacity to gaze at fractals.

The existence of the green flash has caused great controversy among sailors and other sky-oriented folk.

"I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold" -Meursault

New River, North Carolina

I meet you in the backyard, where you are always waiting. You stand, awakened, both still and alive at the same time. When I hear the dawn chorus in your branches, and the way the wind moves the pages of your leaves, I forget everything I know about pages and branches and leaves. Even when I have forgotten about you, you offer me these gifts.