Dan at Tunnel Meadow Corral
“All things think.” — Heraclitus
Dan Jensen is a Californian; native, more or less. Born in south-central Los Angeles and raised throughout California and South Carolina, Dan spent most of his youth from age eight onward in the vicinity of the Kaweah River delta, at the heart of Califonia’s Tulare Basin. It was the Kaweah River that first led Dan to his own personal discovery of the mountains commonly called Sierra Nevada. John Muir rightly called the Sierra the “Range of Light.” Dan prefers to call it the “Range of Fire.”
It is no secret that the Yokuts (Indian) name “Kaweah” translates to “Raven Cry” or “Crow Cry”. Why a Yokuts tribe was given this name—or what was precisely meant by the word—is unknown.
The common raven has a rich repertoire of voices. It is a remarkably intelligent bird that gives the lie to a common human prejudice against birds and other creatures. Because Dan sees intelligence in all things, he has taken up the name Kaweah as a moniker, a motto, and of course, an Internet domain!
Dan lives in San Jose, California. He has been developing computer software since 1989 and parenting since 1998. He can be contacted at djensen@kaweah.com.
© 2006-2012 Dan J. Jensen.