Imagine for the moment you’ve just taken your seat in a packed stadium, about to see your favorite band perform live alongside thousands of other excited fans. Or imagine you’re at the Louvre and you just entered the room displaying the Mona Lisa — feel that electric energy pulsing out from the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd? Or maybe you’re watching a rendition… Read more →
The Greater Sage-Grouse are upland birds unique to North America, known for their elaborate mating dances and entirely dependent on sagebrush for survival. Due to the “loss and fragmentation” of its sagebrush habitat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined in 2010 that the greater sage-grouse was warranted for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The sagebrush ecosystem supports a… Read more →
“Even when our memories are accurate…the meaning which we attribute to those experiences, in other words, the reason they are important to us, is highly influenced by the imaginary world we weave around them. In this sense, the word imaginary alludes to the extra bit we bring to our perception, the ‘seeing beyond’ referred to by Sartre… When we revisit… Read more →
“One deep reason why we tell stories to ourselves (or to our confessor or to our analyst or to our confidant) is precisely to ‘make sense’ of what we are encountering in the course of living — through narrative elaborations of the natural arguments of action.” — Jerome Bruner and Joan Lucariello, Monologue as Narrative of the World Randomness is… Read more →