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Welcome to Natural Wonders, where I ask many random, useless questions and occasionally provide a service by researching helpful questions such as Does fingernail polish really kill chiggers? and Why are some people allergic to poison ivy and others aren’t? Read on for this week’s installment of random uselessness… One year when I taught first grade and we were in the midst of our sink and float unit, I mentioned to my students that my dad had brought me a rock that floated.

Happy winter solstice, happy long darkness. Is it time soon to crack an eye open and squint toward a clarifying next year? I’d like to keep sleeping, but the days keep coming. 2024 will bring a few more Mount Eerie shows for me to tell you about along the historically hippie dippy west coast. Tickets are all on sale now by clicking on the venue name: Friday, March 1st, 2024 - Ojai, Cal.

More than a year ago, I explored the topic of woolly dogs, the unique, domesticated dogs of the Salish Sea. I would like to return to the subject, in part because I like dogs, but also to highlight some recent encounters with them. The first was at the Burke Museum, where I was privileged to see an amazing basket collected on the Skokomish Reservation and donated to the museum in 1932.

TRANSCRIPT: So the word “abracadabra,” which is something we associate with magic, right? My son says it as he does tricks in our living room. It’s actually Hebrew/Aramaic—avra kehdabra—which means, “I will create as I speak,” or “I create with the word.” It goes back to this story of Genesis, this idea that God spoke the world into existence, that the w… ncG1vNJzZmidnJ7AprjOnp%2BnnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqiqlKh6uLXToWSepJmosm6twauYnJmUlq%2BzrQ%3D%3D

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Today March 21, is World Poetry Day, a UNESCO International Day which ‘celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.’ Started in 1999, this day is recognized and celebrated by any and all, as we are all connected by the word, all able to share in the honesty and grace of the poem. With each word precisely chosen, the poem has the power to radiate a sense of humanity.

Over the last few years, the Neon box has become the most anticipated awards-season shipment for critics, not only because of the company’s eclecticism and unusually high hit-to-miss ratio, but also because it cuts against the trend of awards screeners in general. You’re not getting a slow drip-drip-drip of DVDs sent piecemeal through the mail or triple-authenticated digital links that require their own apps, along with limited views and an expiration date.

Hello, There’s good television out at the moment, so let’s get right to it. SURREAL DRAMA OF THE WEEK Bodies (Netflix - all eight episodes) - It starts like a typical police procedural. A police officer stumbles across a dead body on the street. She takes in the culprit found at the scene for questioning, who denies having anything to do with it. Then something weird happens. We go back in time to 1941.

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