Author Archives: billybaba
JULY 23, SUNDAY
METAPHOR AND REALITY My next door neighbor, Jon Scoville, yesterday recommended the film “Fantastical Fungi” to me and I bought it and watched it last night. The film parallels “Entangled Life” but with thinner explanations along with beautiful videos of
JULY 23, SUNDAY
METAPHOR AND REALITY My next door neighbor, Jon Scoville, yesterday recommended the film “Fantastical Fungi” to me and I bought it and watched it last night. The film parallels “Entangled Life” but with thinner explanations along with beautiful videos of
JULY 20, THURSDAY
GUILD CRAFT FAIR (1) On Thursday the 76th Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands opened in the Asheville Civic Center. It ran through Sunday and I went to the fair and took photographs. The Craft Fair is in some ways
JULY 20, THURSDAY
GUILD CRAFT FAIR (1) On Thursday the 76th Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands opened in the Asheville Civic Center. It ran through Sunday and I went to the fair and took photographs. The Craft Fair is in some ways
JULY 19, WEDNESDAY
MAGIC MUSHROOMS AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD A chapter in Entangled Life on psilocybin, the key ingredient in magic mushrooms made me wonder about my perception of the world. A an illustration shows the effect on the brain of this
JULY 19, WEDNESDAY
MAGIC MUSHROOMS AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD A chapter in Entangled Life on psilocybin, the key ingredient in magic mushrooms made me wonder about my perception of the world. A an illustration shows the effect on the brain of this
JULY 18, TUESDAY
SMOKE After the hottest June worldwide ever recorded and the hottest first week in July ever recorded this morning is a code orange smoke alert for Asheville and, I think, much of the Eastern United States from Canadian forest fires.
JULY 18, TUESDAY
SMOKE After the hottest June worldwide ever recorded and the hottest first week in July ever recorded this morning is a code orange smoke alert for Asheville and, I think, much of the Eastern United States from Canadian forest fires.
JULY 17, MONDAY
PREJUDICE I’ve always known that I was riddled with prejudices of one kind or another. These intuitive, unasked for, natural biases are part of me. I’ve always been ashamed of them. But now I’m coming to the realization that they
JULY 17, MONDAY
PREJUDICE I’ve always known that I was riddled with prejudices of one kind or another. These intuitive, unasked for, natural biases are part of me. I’ve always been ashamed of them. But now I’m coming to the realization that they
JULY 16, SUNDAY
GREEN REVOLUTION When I was a boy growing up in India my father was Principal of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute that had an extension program to help Indian village farmers to adopt new agricultural methods, the green revolution, to improve
JULY 16, SUNDAY
GREEN REVOLUTION When I was a boy growing up in India my father was Principal of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute that had an extension program to help Indian village farmers to adopt new agricultural methods, the green revolution, to improve
JULY 15, SATURDAY
ENTANGLED LIFE I have been reading Entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures and have been bowled over by it. But at the same time I have been unable to put my response
JULY 15, SATURDAY
ENTANGLED LIFE I have been reading Entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures and have been bowled over by it. But at the same time I have been unable to put my response
JULY 14, FRIDAY
LISTENING TO AMANDA CORMAN Today I had another reminder of how my perspective on the world is warped. It comes from Amanda Gorman, the young woman who recited her poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration. There are several parts to this
JULY 14, FRIDAY
LISTENING TO AMANDA CORMAN Today I had another reminder of how my perspective on the world is warped. It comes from Amanda Gorman, the young woman who recited her poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration. There are several parts to this
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 