"Debt is the most efficient means ever created to make relations fundamentally based on violence and inequality seem morally upright."

From, The Machinery of Hopelessness by David Graeber (2011).

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Please don't tell this Pomarine Jaeger that the word 'pomarine' means 'having nostrils covered by a horny plate.' After all, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Fall in Western North Carolina is a good place to see Cape May Warblers in all their variety.

I lost my copy of Things Fall Apart in the aftermath of the flooding, along with most of my gull books.

I wish someone would have told me this before 2013.

A Cape May Warbler in our Helene-flooded backyard. It was a nice distraction that day.

Bufflehead comes in for a landing.

Quack!

Pale Communion was a perfect album whilst the new album is imperfect but markedly better.

This is my favorite picture of a Cory's Shearwater.