The talk and screening is part of the US Environmental Film Festival, in its 18th year. For those of you who are enthusiasts for films about the people/nature connection, there are 155 diverse films screening between March 16th and 28th. Special programs exist for children and are marked by a family-friendly symbol in the festival program.

Humans often serve to speed things up, in the name of reaching higher efficiency, productivity, and the minimum threshold of mental excitement without which we probably would perish.

But sometimes we also serve to slow things down. This effort is not only directed at our own activities and perceptions. Dragonflies move incredibly fast. They shift in flight with abrupt angular turns. Their wings move at a speed invisible to the human eye.

Even with the best optical aids, we struggle to see a dragonfly like it was a mountain. Successes like the frame at right are occasional, fleeting, justifying a little celebration and a lot of gratitude.