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Camera Allergy

It's the doing of the thing that makes for good work; the sharing of it that makes for good times. Taking photos of a thing can affect...

Rockosophical Reads

If you enjoy the occasional piece of fiction, here are two novels for your stack. This pair of good reads include pocket rocking...

Shriking Fossils

A blizzard laid crystal white in every direction from your hotel that first week in South Dakota. SoDak, that's what the locals call it....

All Lined Up

The sun took its time on the rise that day. The pilot was saying, "Thirty years I been doing this and I don't think I've ever seen that...

Disorder, be Dammed!

We are humane creatures in a highly modified environment with all the social, physical, and mental lags in adaptions that precipitate...

Handling Wildlifers

There are perks to being a field biologist, perks to paying attention . Like seeing a nesting pair of long-billed curlews! Of course, it...

Pocket Rocks: Lily

My family are rock pickers. Mom's a century farm kid, Stearns County, “the land of rocks & cows" where fields sprout rocks before they...

AwkWords to Live By

This post is an homage to an internet article you can check out right here . No stress, I didn’t read it either. What I remember is the...

Rockosophizing Art & Why We Do It

In the final hours of the year 2021 (Roman calendar), I submitted a proposal to the Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) in Northern...

White Wolf & Sweetgrass

Our final morning at the Grand Portage Hotel & Casino - the Great Rendezvous Place being only place to stay on the rez for our work - I...

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Rock Rat

Welcome! I am the Rockosopher, the Rock Rat, the author. A common species of philosophizing gym rat rockhound often seen romping betwix rubble and wildlife in search of minerals, birds, or answers to inquires big & small. Poke around, share, and hit up the contact page with what you'd like to see!

Birds, Rocks, Bliss