mists & fog
This week, a run along the shore road around Sturgeon Point is a run in mists. The mood across the water seems to be a calm melancholy. On one run, late in the afternoon, a flock of water birds under the mists rose and fell and disappeared. A solitary loon near the shore sobbed out two quick sad notes, then vanished under the water.
posted by Kati at 5:31 p.m.
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Kati, it looks so lovely, please forgive me if I go slightly off to the side with these remarks.
Maybe it would be different if I'd ever lived anywhere near a lake, where a loon is part of the natural environment, but we've always lived in cities or suburbs. It sounds odd, but it's impossible for me to see the word 'loon' without having a flashback to "On Golden Pond" with Katharine Hepburn chanting "The loons, the loons!" to Henry Fonda.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
You seem to run very early in the mornings just after sunrise...
I was quite a piece of research on the word 'loon' it doesn´t exist in my dictionary. But I found out the loon seems to be a bird, I am still looking for the german name, as these birds don´t exist in this part of the world....though we have plenty of lakes to offer.
Kati, now I have been successful: the common loon seems to be the provincial symbol for Ontario.I had to go to Portugal,Norway or Iceland to have a look at that type of bird with the German name 'Eistaucher', as it also migrates for winter to Europe.
You are lucky to live (and run) in such a beautiful part of the world, with an untouched nature by the looks of it.
I am lucky to live where I do. I'm reading a book about "Nature Deficit" as children experience it these days, and am coming to the conclusion that being able to be in nature has probably literally saved my life. I lived in an apartment in the city a mere 5-6 years ago and was on the verge of losing my mind...
Lack of nature in human environment
can cause damage in any human being , I think. I am teaching teenagers in a big city and have to cope with the consequences of these deficits. Could you tell me the title of the book, Kati?
Sisah, the book is Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv, 2006, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ISBN -13: 978-1-56512-522-3; ISBN - 10: 1-56512-522-3 (PB). Being an educator, you might also enjoy a new book by a guy named Cohen called (I think), The Homework Myth I'll have to clarify that when I actually get my greedy little hands on it myself ;) !! I see homework as a real issue in the education system here in Ontario right now.
Thank you Katie, I found out both books can be ordered by amazon /Germany, the second book´s author is Alfie Kohn, who seems to have written quite a few books on education, I am afraid I have never read anything written by him.
Strange to me is to read about subjects which were very important for me as a teacher in the eighties, we did a lot on environmental education at our school then.And when I started in 1976 as a teacher in a comprehensive school in Berlin, homework was not necessary in those days at all. A few years later they invented so-called pupils´ working lessons where they had to do their homework at school- as especially language-teachers had found out, there had been no progress without learning vocabularies.
At the moment Germany´s schools are said to be in need of reform, and pupils are overloaded with tests and examens, evaluation of teaching is the ministry employees favorite occupation.
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