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It’s Spring Again

March 20, 2020 / 8 Comments

The advance of our science begets knowledge — and control — of our environment, so much so we often seem not of this world but above it. Grand masters.  But there’s no escaping we are part of nature and sometimes it’s a microscopic thing like the corana virus that reminds us of how intimately we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, Seasons, Spring Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, Spring, Vernal Equinox

Carl Kruse Blog – 6 Poems By Otho Campbell

February 27, 2020 / 14 Comments
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Six Poems By Otho Campbell Presented by Carl Kruse “No good deed goes unpunished,” is just one of Murphy’s laws. The golden rule: A fantasy, like elves and Santa Claus. People take advantage of the kindness you commit. Jean Valjean would just buy drugs, with the bishop’s candle sticks. The road to hell, as we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Poems Tagged: carl kruse, friends, otho cambell, poems

Once again, Giving Tuesday

December 4, 2019 / 2 Comments

I wrote about Giving Tuesday last year and this year I do it again.  For those who wonder at the idea of a Giving Tuesday or Giving Wedensday, rest easy knowing that Giving Whenever is usually a good time indeed. Pick your favorite person or charity, show them some love. The truism that you cannot … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Hemley Gonzalez, Responsible Charity, SETI, Streetwaves, Urban Paradise Guild Tagged: carl kruse, Charities, Donations, Giving Tuesday, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity, SETI, Streetwaves, UPG

Happy Autumnal Equinox

September 23, 2019 / 6 Comments

Living north of the equator it’s three short months between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox. Summer comes and goes quickly and when mid-September comes, we know it’s all nearing a close. The heat of summer often lingers while the light declines and the withering leaves crackle underfoot as the trees begin their seasonal … [Read more…]

Posted in: Autumn, Carl Kruse, Seasons Tagged: Autumnal Equinox, Carl Kruse Blog, Fall, Introspection

Happy DNA Day

April 25, 2019 / 14 Comments
Francis Crick autograph on Carl Kruse blog

Every April 25 some of us commemorate the day in 1953 when Watson, Crick, Wilkins, et al (particularly Rosalind Franklin who received little credit at the time) published their paper on the structure of DNA. Today we celebrate the scientific advances that the understanding of DNA has made possible. I met Francis Crick in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, DNA, Events, Science Tagged: carl kruse, DNA, DNA DAY, Francis Crick, Genetics, Science

Giving Tuesday

November 26, 2018 / 1 Comment

For this “Giving Tuesday” might I recommend two charities that I personally support and that do so much with so little?

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Environment, Hemley Gonzalez, India, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity, Urban Paradise Guild Tagged: carl kruse, Changing The World, Charities, Giving Tuesday, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity, Urban Paradise Guild

Memorial Day Reflections

May 28, 2018 / 13 Comments
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It’s Memorial Day in the USA, a time the country honors those fallen in wars. Here’s to the day when there are no more wars and no further need for Memorial Days. Last year and the year before I wished the same. Another Memorial Day Wish A Memorial Day Wish Carl Krusehttps://carlkruse.org Email: carl AT … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays Tagged: carl kruse, memorial day, Vietnam Memorial

Another MLK Day

January 14, 2018 / 8 Comments
MLK image at Kruse

A MLK Tradition: Reading A Letter From A Birmingham Jail by Carl Kruse It was on a Martin Luther King Day in 2006 that I first thought of reading some of King’s original work to honor the man behind the U.S.A. holiday and remembered an essay that was in a Norton anthology back in college … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays Tagged: carl kruse, Ethics, Justice, Letter From A Birmingham Jail, MLK

SETI : Are We Alone?

January 12, 2018 / 13 Comments

Help SETI Answer The Question: Are We Alone?by Carl Kruse Every year the good people at SETI @ HOME make a fundraising drive to support their efforts in tackling what is one of the great remaining questions of humanity, is there intelligent life besides us in the universe? While the answer to the question is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, SETI Tagged: carl kruse, Research, SETI, SETI@HOME, Space

Winter Solstice Again

December 21, 2017 / 6 Comments

Happy Winter Solstice by Carl Kruse Since before anyone kept records people have celebrated Winter Solstice, the shortest day-longest night of the year, and that happens to be today. And every year around now I share a quick note to celebrate the solstice ( See https://carlkruse.org/happy-winter-solstice/  for a similar solstician greeting.) In prehistoric times people … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays, Seasons, Winter Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, Winter, Winter Solstice

Summer Solstice

June 21, 2017 / 4 Comments
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Here’s To A Great Summer Solstice By Carl Kruse The ebb and flow of the seasons is one of life’s constants and today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day, shortest night of the year, marking the beginning of summer.  Some say it marks mid-summer, but no matter. Water flows, flowers bloom, trees sashay, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Seasons, Summer Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, summer, summer solstice

Another Memorial Day Wish

May 30, 2017 / 9 Comments
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Yet Another Memorial Day Wish By Carl Kruse It is Memorial Day once again in the U.S.A., that time the nation honors its soldiers who died in combat. As I do every Memorial Day, I take some time to reflect on war and death, wishing that in some future — which seems impossibly distant — … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays Tagged: carl kruse, holidays, memorial day, reflections

Svalbard Seed Vault Flooding

May 21, 2017 / 9 Comments

Melting Permafrost Floods Svalbard Seed Vault By Carl Kruse On Friday, March 19, a stream of nervous reports warned that water had entered the doomsday seed repository known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.   Temporary panic ensued because Svalbard is humanity’s last line of defense against a major catastrophe or doomsday situation that might imperil … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Nonprofits, Plants, Science, Svalbard Tagged: carl kruse, Norway, Seed Vault, Svalbard

Imagine If We All Loved and Respected Each Other

March 25, 2017 / 7 Comments

Carl Kruse And imagine the love and respect this man deserves and didn’t really get: https://carlkruse.org/carl-kruse-kazhir-khan/ And for a touch of love in a different vein — some poems from the Carl Kruse archive: https://carlkruse.org/poems-carl-kruse/

Posted in: Beautiful Words, Carl Kruse Tagged: carl kruse, Love, Wishes

Happy Vernal Equinox

March 20, 2017 / 4 Comments
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Spring Is Here by Carl Kruse The seasons are always turning but there are special moments and today we pass through one of them, the vernal equinox, or the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. The center of the sun today aligns with the equator, and day and night — light and dark … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Seasons, Spring Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, Spring, Vernal Equinox
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