Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/14/loren-eiseley-love/

Love Anyway

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/14/love-anyway/

Love Anyway

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/29/love-anyway/

Ghost Continent, 2018
1 minute video made from stereocards found in the Library of Congress.

https://vimeo.com/290231622

#animation #visualart #stereophoto #blackandwhite #libraryofcongress #digitalcollage #collageart #bluebird #ghostcontinent #loreneiseley

Naked Cognition: based on the Microbial Anthropology and Information theory

https://homorehabilis.medium.com/naked-cognition-information-theory-and-microbial-anthropology-84e26dd1708b

#microbes #anthropology #microorganism #essay #Nyquist #sampling #ecosystem #mandara #dream #virus #moire #LorenEiseley

People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

This sea urchin appeared to still be alive, so placed it back in the water — tried to get it beyond the surf but it sure was cold (for me) in the ocean! Thought of Loren Eiseley's essay, "The Star Thrower":

“The task was not to be assumed lightly, for it was men as well as starfish that we sought to save.”

("The Loren Eiseley Society was formed in 1982 to encourage interest in and knowledge of Loren Eiseley's work..." https://www.eiseley.org/)

#nature #LorenEiseley