The Great American Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) of August 21, 2017 is a crossing, a passage, a bridge across time, especially for the USA. The last time a TSE covered the entirety of America, coast to coast, was 1918 and the next time will be 2045. If you travel to the swath of totality, expect to see day literally becoming night, with purple-blue supernatural shadows, stars suddenly shining, and the diamond ring of the Sun’s corona at totality.

Listen to the latest episode of The Grizzly Beat podcast, featuring poet, educator, astrologer, Lyn Dalebout. She speaks passionately and eloquently about linking the sacred to the political — and the role of the grizzly bear in her life. 

This is my tribute to Grizzly 760, also known as Jim Bear to many of us. I spent good time around him, as did many of us who love our bears. In honor of his short and compelling life, it is important to share a few stories.