Monday, November 2, 2009

About the blog

Naming things takes a lot of thought. I'm pretty bad at it, admittedly. I never named the garden I put in at the school. My cat came adorned with a name. Names are so laden, and I think they can end up confining the named.

There were many ideas I hoped to capture in figuring out the URL for this blog, making it even more challenging to determine something appropriate. Tambien, quisimos llamar el blog en espanol, pero not so obscure that our English-speaking friends would find it obtrusive. So I was excited when Jameson and I came up with the URL / blog title, "Diversidad de Vida [diversity of life]", I feel that it addresses so much of what this journey encapsulates: diversifying our own lives while learning about the way people live in different areas and how they counter place-based societal and environmental challenges. Also, it conveys our interests and future postings about biodiversity and ecological interactions in the breathtaking ecosystems we will encounter.

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