To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here As a naturalist, Charles Darwin wasn’t much of a “bird guy.” His real fascination was with barnacles. He spent eight years of his life, in fact, painstakingly dissecting smelly samples from all over the world, piling up storage crates in his London study in the pre-refrigeration era. His hope was to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There are a thousand stories behind every family picture. The three men standing in front of this seascape were all participants in the McDonald clan’s visit to the Galapagos Islands last week. They include my brothers Scott and Bruce, who were accompanied by their wives Gina and Ruth, respectively. My wife… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The British sailors who began to make regular visits to the Galapagos Islands in the 18th and 19th centuries didn’t know what to make of the giant tortoises they found there. Aside from a few remote islands in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, they existed nowhere else on the planet…. Read more »
