LITTLE GIDDING (Last of the “Four Quartets”) “Last season's fruit is eaten and the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ~ T. S. Eliot columbia.edu/itc/history/wi…

Coming together around P-22 and Stopping the Misinformation

RIP Beautiful P-22

As Angelenos mourn our beloved P-22 mountain lion, I'm reminded of another apex predator I wrote about for Alta Journal who journeyed 1,500 miles from Oregon into SoCal only to be killed by a truck, the grey wolf OR-93. We need wildlife corridors! altaonline.com/dispatches/a38…

Running the trails of Griffith Park this afternoon and seeing P-22 in each canyon, clump of brush, hillside. His memory will haunt me and every Angeleno who keeps a wild space in their heart

In 1861, it rained in Los Angeles for 28 straight days due to an atmospheric river like the one hitting SoCal now The Santa Ana, San Gabriel & Los Angeles rivers merged, creating one large river mouth that stretched from Long Beach to Huntington Beach en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flo…

SPECULATIVE LOS ANGELES #audiobook is on sale from Chirp for $2.99! This “wildly imaginative and emotionally grounded”anthology edited by Denise Hamilton features 14 original LA-based stories read by Stefan Rudnicki, Gift of Gab & more chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/spe… Blackstone Publishing

The residents of Laurel Canyon are currently filling the canyon with David Crosby songs played at top volume in a tribute to the fallen musician—Crosby, Stills & Nash sang together for the first time at the L. Canyon home of Mama Cass Elliot.

Mark your calendars

1) We are saddened to share mountain lion P-81 was likely killed by vehicle strike Sunday, Jan. 22.😢 California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials collected P-81’s body on the Pacific Coast Highway near Las Posas Road in the western Santa Monica Mountains. A necropsy will be performed to confirm

5)Vehicle strikes are the leading cause of death for mountain lions in our study area. Since March 2022, nine mountain lions have died by vehicle strikes – six were radio-collared. P-81 is the 34th mountain lion, and the 13th radio-collared, to die from road mortality since 2002

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This memoir is incredible!!!

L.A. is deep into the two weeks each year after heavy rain when the land blooms like a semi-tropical jungle and secret waterfalls and creeks appear like magic and serenade the city like troubadours who will soon move on

“P-22’s Life in L.A.” by Denise Hamilton is an autobiography of the famous mountain lion and his time in the Santa Monica Mountains. It ends with his tragic death last December. altaonline.com/dispatches/a43…

Alta Journal Denise Hamilton If everyone in Los Angeles who cared about #P22 also cared about #LaTunaPuma, maybe we could save the destruction of his territory in the Verdugo mountains, which has been marked to be razed for a fancy, gated development: change.org/p/no-canyon-hi… Los Angeles Times LAist L.A. TACO🌴🌮 @laweekly

Weekend Read: Denise Hamilton offers a first person imagining of the life of P-22, the most famous mountain lion in Los Angeles. trib.al/v7pSXGF

Watched a rat scamper across 5 lanes of traffic of the Ventura Freeway while stuck in traffic near Forest Lawn. Rat was fine. The rats are always fine.

Thank you@tkspodcast & yes the פעמיים מיים city noir series is amazing and it keeps growing so you'll never run out of cities to visit

Viva Sicily! My journo friend Amy Kazmin reports from booming Palermo