Happy Saturnalia

Happy Saturnalia:

From Yesterday, (Friday, 23 December) on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR Station. Do robins really get drunk on Pyracantha berries?

And what exactly is Saturnalia?

Footloose Forays trips updates below:

Contact me for more details.

There are two spots open on my Spring Monday hiking group beginning March 6.

And still room for one male on the Baja/Sea of Cortez trip leaving March 24th.

The updated date for The Cedars trip is April 26- 28.

One room for two people is available for Brazil (The Pantanal, Cerrado and Amazon) beginning June 15.

Next years two safaris to Tanzania are both half full already.

And here are some entertaining, informative and maybe thought-provoking tidbits

I loved both seasons of The White Lotus. Here is powerful Wired commentary on one chilling scene.

I heard this song up in the Central Valley recently, so perfect.

What? Another sign of the Science patriarchy! Female snakes do have clitorises

One of my favorite western shootout scenes from the Coen Bros.

Freakonomics podcast on Bananas! Eat em’ while you can.

Well, the earth just got its 8 billionth human. Here is what it looks like.

Hey if you haven't already seen the Lands End exhibit in the old Cliff House, check it out.

Remember in my last newsletter the KQED Perspective on Chipmunks? If you want even more cute chipmunks check this site out.

Old movie stunts. Unbelievable that some of these were really done, not faked!

I am so excited to be heading back to Antarctica next October and this time will visit South Georgia Islands. Shackleton’s rescue journey to remote Elephant island was amazing.

A.Word.A.Day by Anu Garg

dromomania noun

1. A compulsive desire to travel.
2. An excessive enthusiasm for running.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek dromos (running) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1900.

USAGE: “Dromomania was his curse... Compulsive traveling. Wanderlust.” Harlan Ellison; Goodbye to All That; McSweeney’s; 2002.

Fresh

To move

Cleanly.

Needing to be

Nowhere else.

Wanting nothing

From any store.

To lift something

You already had

And set it down in

A new place.

Awakened eye

Seeing freshly.

What does that do to

The old blood moving through

Its channels?

~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~

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