Things are going as planned until the blow of a diagnosis one day. Is uncertainty the only certainty?
Read More »We have a sacred duty to care for nature
What does the future hold for the woods and the wilderness – my sacred spaces?
Read More »Frans de Waal and how natural our human nature is
Last week I attended the invigorating talk by renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, on the deep roots of what we had too long tended to think of as quintessentially human: tool use, social cooperation, empathy and a sense of fairness.
Read More »A Lost Soul at Lost Lake
It was near there on my family’s first trip where I first experienced the ecological balance of nature, and how we could really mess it up.
Read More »Deep in the Woods, Stop the Trains
Actually, I am in no wilderness while on this trail, but in the past have experienced enough of being next to only life without human culture to recall the subtle chages.
Read More »POEM: Wu-Wei
By Christi Ortiz Ancient wisdom reminds us it is not in the doing, the best things in life you cannot force, like love, joy, peace, generosity, forgiveness, and lasting change. This is hard for our driven minds to understand we’re used to bulldozing our way through life to get …
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