Reflections on the Living World
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Indigenous?
“On Mother Earth, we’re all struggling to understand: what does it mean to be indigenous to Earth?” Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
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Autumn Sunset
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore “Brilliant” is the adjective I use to describe an…
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The Humbling
“Nature has a way of taking over. We put up these magnificent buildings, and we move around in our remarkable machines, and we think we’re so dominant. And in a lot of ways,…
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Finding Our Roots
“There is a necessary wisdom in the give-and-take of nature, it’s quiet agreements and search for balance. There is an extraordinary generosity.” Susan Simard, “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the…
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What’s Missing?
“I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . .they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.” Walt Whitman
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What is Goldenrod?
“You can see the goldenrod… bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.” Stephen King
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Stargazing
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Every morning my alarm clock goes off at 5:59am. Sometimes I am awake, sometimes deep asleep. I curl my…
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Summer’s Dog Days
“Dog days bright and clear Indicate a good year” from Weather Proverbs by H.H. Chase Dunwoody
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Blue, With or Without Us
“Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue—that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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A New Perspective
“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.“ John Muir
