The official botanical gardens for the whole state of North Carolina are attached to UNC Chapel Hill. Isn't that special? These gardens are a cluster of flowers and woodlands, and the offices and gift shop are sustainably built, and everything is so aggressively progressive and fresh, that it makes me guilty to think of driving… Continue reading Walking to the NC Botanical Gardens from UNC
Joseph St. Jean was a professor of Geology at UNC Chapel Hill. He was 94 when he died this past March. Because I was in the same department, in the early years of my PhD, I sometimes saw him around Mitchell Hall. Yes, indeed, he was still coming in to work in his office at… Continue reading Joseph St. Jean
Today, I heard a speaker who had some soaring words for us. She said: Walk towards the things that makes time stop for you; that make you light up; that you can't be pulled away from. Well, I wanted to sit down and tell her all the times I'd tried to walk towards just exactly… Continue reading Need inspiration?
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