I search around in this muddled mind of mine, looking for some thoughts or an experience that might work for another blog. My goal, more or less, is to post a new blog about once a week. I don’t have the discipline to do it every Friday morning or some other specific time like some
How will this Earth Day be different from last year’s Earth Day or the 52 Earth Days since they were instituted in 1970? We know much more than we did in 1970 and there have been tremendous efforts on the part of those who care and who are committed to help make changes for a
I received a message recently from someone with whom I have connected and communicated infrequently over several decades and I did not remember ever meeting him. He did and he sent me a note which is in the next paragraph. It shows that you never know what impact you might have on someone by what
“Look into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein For many years as a young child, wading barefoot in a stream on my grandparents’ farm, I spent hours collecting tadpoles and crawdads, watching dragonflies hovering above plants and water striders darting in unpredictable directions. I had no idea what I would
It is a sunny afternoon and I walk into the woods, toward one of my favorite spots, and look for my sitting log on the west bank of the Santa Cruz River. As I go deeper into the woods, I think about “forest bathing” and how I might practice that today, immersing myself in the
I am indebted to Tina Welling and “Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership With Nature” for inspiring this piece, celebrating the official arrival of Spring, 2023. One of my favorite walks is along the Anza Trail, not far from our house in southern Arizona.This historical trail has its origins in Alamos, Mexico on October
