Author Archives: Rick Murphy

Jim’s This & That, December 2017

JIM’S THIS & THAT, December 2017 Take a look inside for… 1. Links to community calendars … and including … 2. News You Can Use: articles, activities, and resources 3. Area organizations & locations for eco-recreation & education *** The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of science. Those who know it not, and can no longer wonder and no longer feel amazement, are as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we… Read More →

Jim’s This & That, November 2017

JIM’S THIS & THAT, November 2017 Take a look inside for… 1. Links to community calendars … and including … 2. News You Can Use: articles, activities, and resources 3. Area organizations & locations for eco-recreation & education *** It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.    (Freda… Read More →

Jim’s This & That, October 2017

JIM’S THIS & THAT, October 2017 Take a look inside for… 1. Links to community calendars … and including … 2. News You Can Use: articles, activities, and resources 3. Area organizations & locations for eco-recreation & education *** What’s the ratio of a pumpkin’s circumference to its diameter? Pumpkin Pi   1. LINKS TO COMMUNITY CALENDARS: 1.    https://public.ntmn.org/calendar (A calendar of events across the Metroplex, compiled by the North Texas Master Naturalists) 2.    https://www.greensourcedfw.org/calendar (The GreenSource DFW Environmental News & Community Resource)   2. NEWS YOU CAN… Read More →

Jim’s This & That, September 2017

JIM’S THIS & THAT, September 2017 Take a look inside for… 1. News You Can Use … and including … 2. Links to community calendars 3. Area organizations & locations for eco-recreation & education Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small. No one can ever prevent me from saying and doing what is in complete conformity with… Read More →