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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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I Am So Back: Beauty, Battles And The Metolius River

August 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · nature, sustainability

My transition between old and new laptops plus an uptick at work led to my taking a 12 day break from posting. So, we can say I took a summer vacation, at least from blogging. How did I spend my virtual vacation? Three strands are loopily braided in my brain like rivers are prior to human intervention: [...]

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