travelswithkathleen
I am a native in this world And think in it as a native thinks
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Here's an iceberg
Plus a poem:
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
That's Mary Oliver, from When Death Comes.
We talked about the Harlem Renaissance in my class on Saturday, and read a couple of Langston Hughes poems, which the students loved. One student suggested that they could memorize a poem in English as a homework assignment, so I spent yesterday putting together 15 poems/excerpts that I think they would understand and enjoy. (Not necessarily to memorize, although if anyone wants to do that I'd be thrilled.)
Sunday, March 16, 2025
One more dive
And that's a 10 out of 10 for form, a 7 out of 10 for being too far away and too hard to see against the rocky background.
Labels:
animals,
Antarctica,
bird blogging,
birds,
penguins,
wildlife
Sunday bird blogging
I might not have captured any good shots of penguins porpoising, but I did manage to capture this gentoo mid-dive.
Admittedly, a diving penguin is much easier to photograph because they don't just pop up out of nowhere.
Labels:
animals,
Antarctica,
bird blogging,
birds,
penguins,
wildlife
Friday, March 14, 2025
Bodyguards
Fun fact: although penguins get much of the water they need from their diet, they can and do drink salt water. They have a gland by their eyes that excretes excess salt from their bodies.
This quartet of penguins (yes, there are four—count the beaks) look like they're standing guard while their friend takes a drink.
Labels:
animals,
Antarctica,
behavior,
bird blogging,
birds,
drinking,
penguins,
wildlife
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
And more spooky Antarctica
Also near Neko Harbor.
The light changed as fast as the weather did. It went from dazzlingly bright—if overcast—to sepulchral and back again very quickly.
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Saturday reflections
Neko Harbor, and a picture that really shows how spooky Antarctica can be, with the mists draping over the mountains and the water that looks almost black in the dim light.
Labels:
Antarctica,
icebergs,
mountains,
reflections,
water
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Thai food near me
I passed this restaurant when I was walking home from a doctor's appointment this morning and I laughed out loud (always welcome these days.)
I googled “thai food near me” when I got home and this restaurant was indeed at the top of the search results though it's actually on the other side of Manhattan. Very clever.
Labels:
made me laugh,
New York,
restaurants,
urban poetry
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