I still vividly remember the day I started to release my fear and allow my authentic self to emerge, with the help of what I am convinced is divine intervention. This was the first time I felt truly connected to my intuition and decided to trust it, though I had no...
As a wildlife tracker, I honed observation skills to detect slight disturbances in natural settings. Many of these tracks and signs are easily missed as they blend into a background of what often appears, to an untrained eye, an entangled pattern of twigs, leaves,...
Joanna Macy, Ph.D., author, teacher, activist, created a ground-breaking framework and methodology for personal and social change called The Work That Reconnects. Bill McKibben says of her work: “Joanna Macy is one of the planet's treasures, not least for the...
For everything that lives is holy. ––William BlakeIt was 1983. After eleven years of spiraling downward with alcoholism, I had my last drink. I was twenty-seven years old. And I can honestly say that nature saved me. Born and raised in Central London and a former...
On the ferry from Lewes, Delaware, to Cape May, New Jersey, nature was putting on a show. Schools of dolphins and porpoises swam beside the ship. Strings of sea ducks flew in long, ragged lines, and gannets—gleaming white, torpedo-shaped birds—plunged into the water...
Morels At an autumn group foray in Upstate New York, a woman produced a tiny wicker basket. "It's my morel basket," she said, joking but also lamenting. "I found exactly one morel this spring." "I only did twice as well as you did," said another mycophile, "and I...
I recall the exact day my world changed. My young son and I picnicked in our sun-splashed backyard, playing catch and collecting stray balls from the deep fern glade. I still hold this day with a certain reverence, for it marks the beginning of the end of the world I...
Jane Hirshfield's poem "Let Them Not Say" has become something of an anthem in the environmental movement. For Earth day 2021, the Scottish eco-activist composer Chris Hutchings used it in making this beautiful and harrowing music video.Jane Hirshfield’s nine poetry...
Mutual sustenance is the archetypal relationship of life. So it is possible to say in contemporary English without any confusion of sequence or cause/effect that whatever sustained your first ancestor is your ancestor. You could call that One your original first...
I have noticed that individuals with mental health issues/trauma histories struggle with wearing face masks, and here is how I came to this realization: I saw an OSHA video going around a few weeks ago. A man was holding an oxygen-sensor next to his mouth and...
