Rivers As Relatives: A 4-Part Series ~ Read Now
There’s a growing sadness among nature lovers: a sense that we’re disconnected from the natural world, especially those of us living in cities or spending too much time on screens. We feel pained that we’re not ‘in nature’ enough. But what if the problem isn’t…
It’s no longer just about net-zero carbon emissions. Now it’s about net-zero carbon emissions AND climate restoration. That’s right, our new goal is to restore our climate to CO2 levels that will allow future humans to evolve and flourish. And we’re going to do it by…
When Peter Wohlleben went to forestry school, he learned that trees are resources to be managed for maximum commercial value. The forestry industry likes them tall, straight, and regularly spaced—easy to cut and easy to sell. In the professional forester’s eyes, every forest is destined…
“Oh, now I see… that’s the left brain.”
I had just finished one of the exercises in Betty Edwards’ classic drawing book. Her instructions were to take a Picasso drawing, turn it upside down, and then copy it….
This is Part 1 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
I can still hear my riding instructor’s voice as I started to trot for the first time. “Head up,” she called out. “Look where you want to go.” She told me later she had to give that same instruction to all of her beginning riders….
The most beautiful expression of gratitude I’ve ever encountered isn’t a prayer or a poem—it’s the Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I discovered it in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It offers something our…
They will tell you,
Look to nature
and feel that you are small.
But Nature will tell you,
Look to the sky
and know that You are vast.
Look to the ocean…
Years ago I tried keeping a gratitude journal. Oprah told me to, and I hoped it would help me through a particularly rough year. I’m a good list maker so I started writing out these long lists of things I thought I should feel grateful…
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