Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyes I dream of deepest Africa The Motherland Our ancestral home Where the orange sun rises Over the plantation lands And the hot winds blow Across the Serengeti plains Deep in the wilderness Vultures hover over an elephant graveyard Swooping to pick at the flesh [...]
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The Elephant Graveyard
Posted by cjlevinson on October 17, 2009
http://cjlevinson.com/2009/10/17/the-elephant-graveyard/
Is beauty dying?
One of my favourite novels is George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides. It’s one of the most beautiful, haunting novels I’ve ever read and it holds up amazingly well when you think it was published in 1949. Earth Abides is a post apocalyptic novel but it’s really more than that. It’s a lament for civilisation; human [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 18, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/18/is-beauty-dying/
5 ways you can help the environment
Today is Blog Action Day, a day encouraging bloggers to unite about the environment. Thousands of bloggers are taking up the challenge, including Lifehacker and Treehugger, writing about the environment in a way that suits their blogs. I’ve been torn between a couple of topics, so I thought I’d cheat a bit and do a [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 15, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/15/5-ways-you-can-help-the-environment/
What kind of blogger are you?
This quiz is continuing the Blog Action Day theme; the organisers’ created it for a bit of fun and to help people get the message out about the day on October 15. If you haven’t signed up yet it’s for a good cause, so no matter what kind of blogger you are, hurry up and [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 10, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/10/what-kind-of-blogger-are-you/







