Earthlings Letters
New Adventures…with Illyria and Sunny!
In this, the first chapter of the new series of Earthling Letters, I am going backward to go forward, using the characters Illyria and Sunny the Robot from the book “Illyria’s World”, once again. To read, please follow this link, https://renew-the-earth.org/we-join-illyria-and-sunny-the-robot-as-they-talk-about-what-they-think-is-real-and-what-they-imagine/ The ebook, Illyrias World, is posted for free on the renew-the-earth.org website if you…
Read MoreWe join Illyria and Sunny the Robot, as they talk about what they think is real and what they imagine…
Chapter 1. In which Sunny mistakes wind generators for a flock of giant white birds. Illyria explains convection to him. And some interesting conversation between them. Our story begins with Illyria and Sunny camping in a forest clearing. We find them waking after sleeping under the night sky. “Good Morning Sunny! How are you?” “Better…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #12 – Diversity
In this letter I want to talk about diversity, a word which means “a range or variety of different things”. And I think this will be the final letter in this series of Earthling Letters. There will be more letters in the future and you can be sure that they will all be about nature…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #11 – The Human Species
Greetings Earthlings! In this EL, I want to introduce some thoughts about what we are doing here as Earthlings, as a species (a living group that is similar looking and can have babies like themselves) called Human. Scientists have figured that we have been evolving (developing gradually from ancestors closely related to us) on Earth…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #10 – The Earth’s Atmosphere
Greetings Earthlings! I promised to talk more about our earth’s atmosphere in this letter. This is a huge subject and I will write only about one tiny bit of it so you might get interested and, I hope, want to find out more. I am like the Pied Piper leading you here and there to…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter # 9 – What a Cat’s Fur Can Teach Us
Greetings Earthlings! I have been thinking about my cat’s fur. How come my cat, Port, can be comfortable in very cold or very hot temperatures and he never has to change his clothes (fur)? You and I have to wear different clothes for different temperatures but cats don’t. Why? What is special about a cats…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #8 – Spaceship Earth
Greetings Earthlings! I was just thinking about two of my favorite things, maple trees in the fall and wild cherry blossom in the spring… Do you remember how in the early spring we saw some of the ‘true color’ of leaves as they came out of their buds and had not yet blushed green with…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #7
Greetings Earthlings! You may be wondering by now if I have a particular ‘method’ behind how I choose what to write to you about. Well, I don’t. The way I see it everything in nature interacts and changes and doesn’t begin in any particular place so I am not writing about things in any kind…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter # 6
Greetings Earthlings! I would like to give you something to think about. At some point in our Human Family Time there was a thought that surfaced that went something like this, “ When a baby is born its fists are closed, because that is where it is holding its gifts. As it grows older it…
Read MoreEarthlings Letter #5 – “Still Life”…Let’s Talk about Rocks!
Greetings Earthlings! For a while we are going to leave the lively strutting of life that photosynthesis makes, the plants and animals and us, and take a look at the ‘still life’ of rocks. Rocks! One of my favorite things on Earth. Those objects that just sit there and don’t go anywhere, but they contain…
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