Creative Action
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The Poetry Box
It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon. I was practically giddy with excitement, having successfully installed my new, hand-crafted poetry box* in front of our house near Asheville, North Carolina. In the same way…
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The Farmer’s Market
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and…
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The Path
“Pursue some path, however narrow or crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” Henry David Thoreau
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A Three-Nest Day
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” Robert Lynd
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Mason and Nona’s Nature Board
“Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.” Terry Krautwurst
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Living with Less
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris
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The Year of Persistent Possibility
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi
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How to Catch a Falling Leaf
“We try to catch a dancing leaf, for every leaf caught is a ‘happy day’, but how elusive they are, these fluttering alive things, which slip through the fingers and evade pursuit!” Alison…
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The Howling Hour
“All things share the same breath—the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.” Chief Sealth (Chief Seattle)
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Summer Salads
“With one mind, we turn to honor and thank all the Food Plants we harvest from the garden. Since the beginning of time, the grains, vegetables, beans and berries have helped the people…
