thank you, ORICL

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A warm thank you to Jim Rushton, Katherine Smith, Priscilla McKenney and the other members of the board of ORICL: Oak Ridge Institute of Continued Learning, for inviting me to be the featured speaker at their Community Lecture Series recently. We met at Roane State Community College on the Oak Ridge Campus.

My lecture was entitled Ephemerality: The shortness of life and I pulled examples from all three of my books published by the University of Tennessee Press: Natural Histories, Ghost Birds and Ephemeral by Nature, to illustrate my topic. 

And I was also able to take a jar of live freshwater jellyfish to symbolize the very nature of ephemerality. 

Thank you to all who attended.

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