Moving Beyond Grief
They say when someone close to you dies, you’ll grieve the loss forever, and the depth and duration of your sadness shows how much you loved the person. Experience tells me you can go on loving …
Matcha Latte
It’s autumn now and I’m beginning to get excited about cold weather and hot drinks, but not just any hot drinks — my favorite hot drink — the matcha latte. Have you tried matcha? It’s green tea leaves …
Earth School: What I’ve Learned During Covid (so Far)
If Earth is a school for souls, and I believe that it is, Covid has been like the fire drill that shook everybody up. We were all sitting in class as usual when the alarm sounded and we had to head …
The Equinox Has a Gift for You
(revised on March 9, 2024) What does the equinox really mean? We typically think of it as the first day of fall (or spring). A quick online search will tell you the ancients built sites like …
Celebrating the Winter Solstice
This is a special time of year – it’s marked by a variety of significant celebrations for people of different faiths and nationalities. But there is one momentous occasion that is shared by every …
Dahlia
I take a lot of flower photos. Some of them bore me in camera, so I don’t finish them. Others I like, but they just don’t work in post-processing. Every now and then there is one that thrills me the …
Celebrating the Fall Equinox
The fall equinox is happening on Monday, September 23, 2019. I’ve been trying to pay more attention to these seasonal shifts and appreciate the changes they bring, so I made some notes about what this …
Plastic Bag Replacements
I know. The Amazon is burning and hurricanes are happening, so do plastic bags still matter? I had the same thought when I started to write this, but I think the most powerful thing we can do in the …
How to Reconnect With Nature
There is an ongoing discussion in nature-loving circles about our increasing disconnection from the natural world. With the rise of city living and screen culture, many sense an acute lack of nature …
Do You Know What You’re Doing?
I’ve started several new personal projects in the last year, from writing blog posts and (gasp) sharing them to painting on my own rather than in a class with a teacher. From the outside this looks …