Category Archives: Memoir
The Long Stillwater
The Long Stillwater is a chapter Robert Morris, M.D. wrote to celebrate a love of nature from a trove of memories. Stillwater is hardly a dictionary word, but it made sense yesterday as I floated on a mirror-perfect patch of … Continue reading
Yarns about Mountain Lions
Ask local folk if mountain lions (aka cougars/ pumas/ panthers) still prowl the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and you’ll likely get a nod or they might bend your ear to tell a tale. But if you visit the WV … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Memoir
Tagged Division of Natural Resources, mountain lion, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
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On Islands. #1. Home Rum
A visit to the Isle of Rum in the Hebrides Continue reading
Posted in Islands, Memoir, Nature
Tagged Cuillin Hills, George Orwell, Inner Hebrides, Isle of Rum, Kinloch Castle, Manx Shearwater
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Tribute to Sunderlal Bahuguna
Obituary of Sunderlal Bahuguna Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Memoir, Nature
Tagged Beatles Ashram, Bishnoi people, Chipko movement, Mahatma Gandhi, Sunderlal Bahuguna, Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand
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A Day in Dharavi
That day slept in deep memory until Dharavi appeared in news reports about the threat of COVID-19. It wasn’t a Westerner’s curiosity about the plight of poor people that brought me in 2003 after an engagement in Mumbai; it was … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Memoir
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, dengue fever, Dharavi slum, Mumbai, rickshaw
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 