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    Rebecca - Thursday 29 December 2016 - No responses
    an animated robot takes on climate change
    Inca terraces and snow-covered peaks, Peru, July 2016 I’m not going to get into all the reasons I have had to pull myself out of despair over Trump becoming president. I won’t say “winning the election,” since he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. But I will say this: climate change terrifies me. I am writing a book set in a world where the permanently snow-covered mountains are living gods, deities of the highest order. In the Andes, that reverence still exists today. But the glaciers are receding, threatening not ... more

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    Rebecca - Monday 15 April 2013 - No responses
    it's about being brave
    Elan in full shagginess, March 2013    Post-bang trim, with the most beautiful lollipop You know what happens? I write a long, involved post, but then I get stopped somewhere along the way (usually at putting the pictures in), and then I just stop posting altogether. That one blockage just keeps everything else from flowing out around it. Maybe life is like this too. We get stuck on one thing that's not working, and it's difficult to shift our focus, to work around that one thing and keep going. So now it's spring, ... more
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