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Welcome! This is a place to share how we celebrate & deepen our relationship to Nature. Here you will find stories, images, & ideas about wilderness, human nature, & soulfulness. Drawing from the experiences of everyday living, the topics on this blog include: forays into the natural world, the writing life, community service, meditation, creativity, grief & loss, inspiration, & whatever else emerges from these. I invite you on this exploration of the wild within & outside of us: the inner/outer landscape.



Friday, March 16, 2018

Trip Through Time in Twenty-Four Hours

Reviewing for the visiting vet the antics and abilities that characterized the youthful version of my “95-year-old” dog: s-l-o-w transitions following the course of vibrant puppy, beloved dog, old friend, mortal being

Hearing the spiraling trill of the robins creating homes for eggs that will later be hatchlings, chicks who fledge, parents: cycles that repeat but which are called out anew each March by the deeply stirring, ancient-yet-spring-borne song of the nest builders

Moving four continents’ worth of trips from old to new computer and seeing in one window that pandas play alongside koalas drunk on eucalyptus, that king penguins totter beside African elephants: weeks and years that my work in the world shifted from stagnant and obscure to deep, clear calling

Sitting with a new friend to listen and recount as we shared life-shaping stories with one another: perceptions that take new forms as we mature, age, and find new companionship in “things that matter most”

Offering training to a roomful of hospice volunteers a combination of things about which I’m passionate in service to their sustained wellbeing: life review through nature, writing, wholeness, beauty, compassionate care for others and self, gratitude; these are the result of time passing and active engagement in life

All these in the course of a single day.

How will you cherish this moment of your relationships, blessings, deep stirrings, work in the world, movements of nature … so that the threads of your life are woven one by one through deep engagement rather than a fleeting passing?




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