Ocean As Mother
Rachel Carson has forever changed the way I see the ocean, and I don’t know how she did it. I was going to give you some passages depicting the ocean as a mother: who unceasingly circulates her …
How Marie Kondo Helped Me Hear My Heart (this is not about tidying)
If you’re not used to listening to your heart, it can seem like a real mystery. Or at least it did to me. Sometime after I entered my 30s, I became deeply despondent about life. I was struggling with …
A Giving Practice and a Resource
In Native American cultures giving was a way of life. They made generosity a tribal value and created ceremonies and rituals to weave it into the fabric of daily living. If you had a baby, you were …
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 …