Patrick Corcoran

@eastsacpatrick.bsky.social

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Dad, scientist, teacher, Sacramento fan. Friend to dogs, democracy, and Ukraine. Formerly, CSU Sacramento public health. 🐕‍🦺🚊💉🗳️🇺🇦

Looking West from a viewing platform in the Sierra Valley Preserve. Headwaters of the Feather River.
The word “whimsical”
Richard Feynman
Circular forever stamps from the USPS that say things like fun, hello!, peace, etc.
Book cover of the first Lonely Planet travel guide for backpackers: South East Asia on a Shoestring.
Cover of the book An Immense World by Ed Yong
Cover of the book East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Cover art of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Cover art of V.S. Nailpaul’s A House for Mr Biswas.
Cover of the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk.
Cover of the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
Book cover of the Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.
Cover of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The book cover of Roughing It, by Mark Twain.
Cover of the book Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner.
The cover art for the book Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen.
Cover art of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law.
Cover of the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
The cover of Cormac McCarty’s Blood Meridian. A wagon being driven away from the viewer in a desert.
Book cover of Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns.
Cover of Umberto Eco’s book “The Name of the Rose.”
Cover of W.E.B. DuBois’ Black Reconstruction in America.
Book cover of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, a novel set during the end of the British Empire in South Asia, and the split between India and Pakistan.
Quotes from Frederick Douglass on how he felt about the end of Reconstruction.
Chewy feeling very insistent that my peanut butter toast belongs to him.
A noble beast waiting for you to throw a stick in the river or give him a treat. He graciously accepts either from his fans.