Tag: nature

Experience the beauty of letting go in nature's autumn display. A poem by Christi Ortiz celebrating the vivid colors and graceful transition of the season.

Experience the beauty of autumn and its unique rhythms with haiku. Discover how seasonal changes can be observed with attentiveness in this insightful blog post.

The evergreens here, streams and songbirds have become my church, the place I go to center myself. 

I can’t find the passage now, but I know it’s there. Sometime in the late fall or early winter of 1853, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal that nature now has Quaker colors.

Things are going as planned until the blow of a diagnosis one day. Is uncertainty the only certainty?

What does the future hold for the woods and the wilderness – my sacred spaces?

Last week I attended the invigorating talk by renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, on the deep roots of what we had too long tended to think of as quintessentially human: tool use, social cooperation, empathy and a sense of fairness.