Tag Archives: nature

Things are going as planned until the blow of a diagnosis one day. Is uncertainty the only certainty?

What does the future hold for the woods and the wilderness – my sacred spaces?

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.

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.

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.

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 …