12/28/2002
Year-end remembrance
The mail brought in the latest edition of The Drifting Seed (pdf format), a newsletter for sea-bean enthusiasts. (Sea beans are seeds of tropical plants -- a lot of them Brazilian -- that end up on beaches. Fall and winter, you'll see them Florida east coast beaches. People even make jewelry out of them.) I felt sad to see it. The former editor, Cathie Katz, a remarkable, inspiring nature writer, died a year ago last month. I didn't find out until I saw the announcement in the newsletter. And this year I read that another remarkable person I met, John Dennis died. Dennis co-wrote "The World Guide to Tropical Drift Seeds and Fruits," which is the authoritative work on sea beans, and contributed to the newsletter.
Cathie's Nature a Day at a Time is still in print. Cathie had the gift for seeing life, the universe and everything in small things, like those damn seeds. We spoke only a half-dozen times but she changed my life. Some people are like that.
Cathie's Nature a Day at a Time is still in print. Cathie had the gift for seeing life, the universe and everything in small things, like those damn seeds. We spoke only a half-dozen times but she changed my life. Some people are like that.
