I’m still glowing from our long Fourth of July weekend, spent camping on a ‘wild and scenic’ portion of the Klamath River with friends including three children.The kids, five of us adults plus a water-loving dog named Bernie were all thrilled by swimming down
Entries Tagged as 'nature'
Embracing Our Sphere Of Influence
January 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, global warming and climate change, health & well being, home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability, transportation
Have you ever stared down a paralyzing fear – and gained mastery of it, to where you then walked into your power, your sphere of influence? This is my long-promised sequel to Alison Cassandra Barcelona, in which I’ll tell why I feel hope rather than despair about
Tags: 350.0rg·collapse·copenhagen talks·faith·nightmares·roommates·sphere of influence
Nature On Its Own Terms
January 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · nature
Happy New Year to all my readers (and also to the much larger group of people in the world who are not my readers). Juliet Wilson, a writer and photographer I like a lot, just posted that in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lives, she has never seen so much snow over such a long period [...]
Winter Solstice And The Unconquered Sun And Son
December 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · home & garden, lifestyle, nature, spirituality & religion
The first part of this piece I posted last year, on the 2008 winter solstice. The rest of it I added for 2009.
Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the days long before fossil fuels routinely lit our nights, winter solstice was celebrated as the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun.
Imagine how [...]
Tags: Christianity·Christmas·divine feminine·Goddess·Jared Diamond·Our Father·solstice·winter solstice
Being Fed By The Forest
November 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, nature, work
Blythe traipsed in late yesterday afternoon to our writing group’s opening session here at Opal Creek, living up to her name, towing with her a forest treasure that startled me into a double take. I’d never seen a cauliflower mushroom before. It was huger than a Halloween pumpkin but formed of air and a fawn-colored, [...]
