Musings on Art and Creativity

Climate change is inescapable this summer with wildfires, record heat and flooding. And yet, we are further encroaching on wild lands, building in places that we should more carefully consider building on at all. But what about the wildlife? Where do they go? And as we ask this question, what about the magic in the world are we losing faster by the day?   Last year on the old blog, I introduced Ed Yong’s book, “An Immense World”. He uses the term “umwelt” to describe the different sensory worlds of the living creatures of Earth; everything  from insects, to mammals, through sight, smell, [...]