Comments on: On the Story of Sand

By: carolyn

carolyn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:46 +0000

this is gorgeous, as always lady. your writing builds pictures in my mind. or sand castles. whichever. :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:13:10 +0000

So it has nothing to do with a personal vendetta against Mr. Attenborough. I’m glad.

By: Meera

Meera — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:12:35 +0000

I’ve come to realize that we shouldn’t order documentaries from Netflix (and I discourage it from recommending them to me) because when they come, they sit around for ages and since we only get one disk at a time, that doesn’t work. I think it’s because we don’t have a tv that we can put on in the background, so watching something is a small event, and we do it to relax. We’re almost never in the mood for a documentary when it comes time to settle in on the couch.

I’ll go to see a documentary in the theater, though. I don’t know why.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:22:11 +0000

What timing!

I just watched the second disc of Planet Earth (which Netflix tells me you are not interested in)—I got it for the Caves episode but also watched Deserts. Mr. Attenborough explained, in the Gobi, perhaps, that it is primarily the tops of the dunes that move; the bases having been established for ages.

This made me think about watching a giant-scale time-lapse of the dunes and seeing their spines shift and roll across the desert.