Welcome!

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.



Monday, June 16, 2014

TEALarbor stories’ Monday Musings: “Let Air Discover…”

TEALarbor stories’ Monday Musings are quotes, mantras, reveries, practices….offering simple ways to explore the ecotone of the inner/outer landscape.


“Let air discover who you are, deliver
that message for bear, for deer. Pass on
quietly, no badge needed. Pay the forest
first, then woman or man.

Below any mountain resolve your allegiances
and mention them often, like a salute no one
requires. No one need know which path
you consider but never declare.

Somewhere there’s the law greater than a uniform,
not any certain color, only a code
riveted in boulders too deep
to discover. You will obey it.

No boundary can stop you.
No woman. No man.”

William Stafford


All blog images created &/or photographed by Jennifer J. Wilhoit unless otherwise noted. Please circulate images with photo credit: "©2014 JenniferJWilhoit/TEALarbor stories. AllRightsReserved."