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Mountain Laurel
Kalmia latifolia: This is by far my favorite local flowering plant found throughout New Jersey. It first caught my eye while in high school when my teacher/mentor pointed out the amazing catapult design of its anthers. Click on image for natural history.
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Staying true to a commitmnet I just made today to my students and some new friends out on Sedge Island, Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, I have begun this 'blog' journal to continue the good practice journaling about my experiences. I have no idea what I'll capture here from my mind and experiences - but I'm totally jazzed about it all! I will also be starting a paper version when I get a new journal for sketching, keeping clips/pics, and folks' contacts whose paths I get to cross. Thanks Jim, Katina, Brett, Carly, and Paulo. Cactch y'all soon...
I was just listening to Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko, and he was reflecting on some new multimedia music (with DVD film clips) he is releasing. He referenced and generalized Carl Jung's idea that we (humans) recreate the experiences of our childhood, weather positive or negative.
Thus, during early childhood our experiences with nature, weather positive or negative, are woven in to our brain in the form of basic moral and value sets by the age of four(4) as understoof by somewhat recent brain biology research.
Thus, squash a bug again and again as a young child, squash nature and our relationship to nature again and again as an adult...to put it simply.
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