Naseem's Blog

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Pink

    To northern eyes tired with dreary colors and wintry whites and greys, the sighting of a Roseate Spoonbill all resplendent in its pink feathers is such a welcome visual treat in Florida. The bare greenish head and broad flattened bill that it swishes around underwater or through shallow mud looking for small fish and crustaceans…

  • One Human Family

    A group of neighbors walking to show solidarity and to reaffirm the spirit of friendliness on a recent warm Fall afternoon gave me reason to smile and to appreciate the fact that we are not alone in this mess. The pandemic is bad enough. More than 214,000 dead and over 7.7 million infected with the…

  • Selamat Datang [Welcome]

    Selamat Datang [Welcome]

    Life has no boundaries when every place can be home – Jen Shyu Singapore is not just every place – it is the land of my birth. It is where most of my family lives. I was raised and educated there and worked for close to a decade before moving to the United States. I…

  • COVID Spring

    COVID Spring

    Watching birds has been an escape and a guilty pleasure almost, in these COVID-stricken times. As we all try to fight the chaos – social connecting and social distancing to pass our precarious days, Spring dawned on us and with it all the delights that it inevitably brings. Nature takes its course. Flowers bloom, birds…

  • P is for Pelican

    P is for Pelican

    We are now snowbirds. Like thousands of other “baby boomers” we escape the northern winter each year to thaw out in warmer climes. In our case, the Sunshine State, Florida. There are things about Florida that remind me of my birthplace – Singapore. The lush green vegetation, the hot weather, the blue water all around. …

  • Red Bug Lessons

    Red Bug Lessons

    A recent environmental hike in a nature preserve just ten minutes from where we live in the winter, turned out to be not just educational but purposeful as well. The place we ventured to is named Red Bug Slough (pronounced sloo). A slough is basically a slow-moving shallow drainage system. Our walk took us through…

  • Reconfiguring

    Reconfiguring

    I find it hard to believe that the year is almost at an end and I have yet to add to this blog. Quite simply, my lack of action is pathetic. I have no excuse other than I did not feel the need to write and I was just bumming. While this blog has focused…

  • Limbo

    Limbo

    When I actually start a writing project, doing the research and pondering how to present the facts, I can very easily get back into what I’ve enjoyed doing for so many years. But there have been many times in the last few years when inspiration was lacking and the desire to report, weak. Good observations…

  • Pemaquid Rocks

    Pemaquid Rocks

    We think we’re off to see a lighthouse, but it is the ROCKS that steal the show at Pemaquid Point, at the south end of Maine’s Route 130. Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, these beauties were once deep sea sediments. Hoisted by heat and pressure within the earth’s crust, they changed into the metamorphic combinations…

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