October and Giving Your Gold Away
Looking across my back yard into the bird sanctuary during fall brings to mind Mary Oliver’s delightful poem Goldenrod. She describes...
September Sky and Deepening Interiority
For many years during the first day of our Earth Literacy program participants would be invited to choose a natural subject outdoors and...
August and the Relocation of Energy
During August I watch vegetable and flower gardens lose their luster and fruitfulness. Brown, spent stems and leaves slowly replace the...
July, Aphelion, and Independence Day
Aphelion is the point in the orbit of a planet when it is farthest from our amazing daystar, the Sun. It just so happens that Earth...
June and Ecological Hope
June marks the beginning of the summer season which is good news; the bad news is that it is also mowing season. As I look out the front...
May's Mystical Music
Recently I decided to learn a language during this solitary time, and since May exudes an abundance of birdsong, the language of birds...
April, Wombs, and Tombs
Lovely April! I delight in watching remarkable flowers growing from bulbs, poking out of the soil, delighting me with their beauty -...
March and Ecological Humility
Some say the season of spring begins with sound, and I surely have found this to be true. For fifteen springs I have driven down Levis...
February, Branching, and Deep Engagement
Everywhere I look this month I see that beautiful branching pattern. Out my window I observe the oak tree with its trunk, boughs,...
Lovin' Lichen in January
I recently moved residences, and now during my morning spiritual practice I find myself looking out at an old red oak tree adjacent to a...
