Save the… tigers!

Via Sepia Mutiny comes the sobering reminder that we as humans have an enormous impact (often negative) on the world we live in. Just a little over a century ago, there were 100,000 tigers in the wild; today, that number is less than 5000. SM points to an article in Time Asia which details the plight of the tiger in India. What’s most unfortunate is the point mentioned in the artcile and explained further in one of the comments to the article here: namely, that the tiger population is reaching a point (if it hasn’t blown past it already) where the population is too small to support long term health and proper evolution of the species… *sigh*. If you have ideas on ways that bloggers can make a difference, I’d recommend posting in the comments to the diary at Sepia Mutiny.

An unintended break from blogging

When I started with this blog, I don’t think I realized how many things I’d want to add to it, and how time consuming that could be… and what has started to happen is that there is so much to add, that I don’t seem to find the time to make a long blog entry. So I keep putting off adding new entries, and then the next post seems to require more and more time, and before you know it, it’s been over a month since the last post!

Furthermore, there are always things that come up in life that force us to take breaks or focus on something else. We had a bit of a health scare with my daughter recently (a minor one, decidedly, but still, nothing seems minor when it affects your own children), and that distracted my focus from posting new topics to the blog.

With these realizations, though, comes the fact that I’d like to post more to the blog, which I’ll start doing again ASAP!