By Carl Kruse Before anyone kept records we have been celebrating Winter Solstice, the shortest day ( longest night) of the year. In prehistoric times people were afraid the sun would not return and performed elaborate rituals to encourage it back. In Roman times Saturnalia took place around December 25th, the date of the solstice … [Read more…]
Carl Kruse Dot Org Profiles: The Monterey Bay Aquarium by Carl Kruse In California there is an aquarium that all other aquariums should be modeled after, in spirit, and in outlook. Transformed from an abandoned cannery on water’s edge at Monterey Bay, it is at once beautiful and imposing. Steinbeck once wrote of this … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse Already immortalized by the time Willy Wonka re-immortalized it, Arthur O’Shaughnessy‘s ode resonates beautifully with those sure they are the music makers, the dreamers of dreams, the movers and shakers. And wouldn’t that be all of us? We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakersAnd sitting … [Read more…]