Welcome to Beetleness & Daffodility: Honoring the Creative Impulse. We should begin by giving credit to the inspiration for our name, Carol Kaesuk Yoon. Following is an excerpt from an article adapted from her book “Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science.”
“No wonder so few of us can really see what is out there. Even when scads of insistent wildlife appear with a flourish right in front of us, and there is such life always–hawks migrating over the parking lot, great colorful moths banging up against the window at night–we barely seem to notice. We are so disconnected from the living world that we can live in the midst of a mass extinction, of the rapid invasion everywhere of new and noxious species, entirely unaware that anything is happening. Happily, changing all this turns out to be easy. Just find an organism, any organism, small, large, gaudy, subtle–anywhere, and they are everywhere–and get a sense of it, its shape, color, size, feel, smell, sound… and meditate, luxuriate in its beetle-ness, its daffodility. Then find a name for it. Learn science's name, one of countless folk names, or make up your own. To do so is to change everything, including yourself.”
We would also like to thank Brooke at Crosspollination for assisting us with getting this up and running.
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