by beachraven | Aug 29, 2020
I saw a raven sitting on a garden gnome. I’m not the kind of person to put a gnome in my yard, but they’re fun to look at, sitting on a mushroom smoking a pipe, holding hands while petting a squirrel, standing with a walking stick while sporting an all-knowing gaze....
by beachraven | Aug 22, 2020
Phoenix Sculpture, by Steve Thomas, Nepenthe, Big Sur, California As I head up the path, sounds of the city crossfade into a chorus of birds, and the cool evening air matches perfectly with the warmth I’m building from the hike. The place is named Quarry Park,...
by beachraven | Aug 14, 2020
Spreewald, Lübbenau, Germany As the boat eases along, I stare into the water. Dark green with fish and guppies, nothing bigger than my hand, and slimy-bottom, green-fuzzy tree branches slide by. Stabs of sunlight flash through the trees and keep obscuring my...
by beachraven | Aug 7, 2020
Zomewhere, Berlin, Germany Maybe you know what it’s like: I can’t do this. I’m just fooling myself. Who the hell do I think I am. I’m a fake. It’ll be crap, and they’ll make fun of me. There are other things I should be...
by beachraven | Aug 1, 2020
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art – Berlin – Germany Did you know, Gambel’s quail, which lives in the Mohave Desert, has a body temperature of 107 degrees? It can continue to cool its self in hundred-degree temperatures....
