My response to Flight plan targets an oasis by Nancy Munson, Tribune staff writer 12/03/03

It is just unbelievable that officials and politicians who can only be hoping to line the pocket of friends, family and patrons are pushing through the Peotone airport. It is time to realize that prime farmland; rivers and wetlands are a limited resource and cannot easily be restored once destroyed. Let's take a closer look at expanding the Gary, Indiana airport site. The site is closer to downtown Chicago, easily accessible to Chicago's South Side, Southern, Western suburbs. There are already interstate highways and rail links nearby which can be interconnected with an expanded and revitalized NW Indiana Airport. Gary and surrounding communities would welcome development as a replacement for declining steel mill and industry. What's the problem, not enough money flowing into the pockets of powerful Illinois interests? Recycle what has already been tainted by prior development, not prime wetlands, rivers and farmlands. Expanding the Gary site is sure to save money and in the long run be the smarter choice. To bad foresight isn't 20/20.

Steven Greenberg
Land Advocate

Has anybody noticed that the trees are dying?

"Are you or a friend out of a job?

Historically, there are two basic ways humans have "made a living": 1) you make something, like knitting a cap; 2) you provide a service (like giving someone a haircut). Yes, there are others ways, like: you harvest something from "Nature" such as trees and fish, or cultivate fruit, vegetables, rice, cotton and other useful crops."

quote -V.Vale

My Own Zone

Chasing shadows across the prairie
Adjust the auto pilot
Calm waters, waving grasses
Tall into the wind

Health Issue Spotlight 01

Earth's Bio-terrorism; Anthrax, Ebola, HIV, Lyme Disease, MDR TB, Monkey Pox, Norwalk Virus, SARS, West Nile Virus

An incomplete list...

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Pulling weeds in Sleepy Hollow when startled by a neighbor
who asked "could I pull weeds in their yard"
Who are they kidding?

Unintended Consequences

After the rain
Water puddles
Mosquitoes thrive
Spray poison and
All succumb
Next year
Mosquitoes swarm

The space between sun light and shade

Is moving across the river bottom
Leaves and seeds are floating by
Water walking bugs are the masters here
Going where ever they wish

Skokie River Flora; a short list

Nodding Onion
Trout Lilly
Prairie Trillium
Wild Leeks
False Solomans Seal
Highbush Cranberry
Elderberry
Greenbriar
Riverbank Grape

4:20am 6/4-post script

I'm on the beach
up close
the bonfire's brilliance
too hot.
gotta get some rest...
sunrise in one hour

at Sunset Woods

glimmering, shady light
interacting, the sound of songbirds
welcome back

Field Report From Sleepy Hollow

alive with spring
each visit, a discovery
river run

Garbage in -garbage out

plastic, paper and fast food drink lids
blow across the lawns
Bio-degradable, after multiple postings, picked up
oR lodged under a fallen branch

Good morning friends, and neighbors....

The natural world outside your door… wilderness not, never again wild. Yet we can re-acquaint, re-plant, and tend to the health of our planet. Homes and human dwelling, space, air, breeze; nourish and refresh.

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