Yucatán Return- Attending to Small Wonders
Within a tangled tropical garden, I am a gecko chirping, a great-tailed grackle swaggering, or perhaps a…
-
-
birds | climate change | forests | Nature
What do Birds Ask of Us?
I’m holding a hermit warbler –my right hand cupped gently under the bird as my left forefinger…
-
Lewis’s Woodpeckers –What Makes a Forest Whole
Lewis’s Woodpeckers are radiant and confounding members of the family Picidae. I’m spellbound by their enigmatic presence…
-
Protect our Wise Forests: the “Immanent Groves”
“What is learned in the Immanent Grove is not much talked about elsewhere. It is said that…
-
The Origin is the Confluence
On this dawning of white-crowned sparrow song sugaring into my open window, April Poetry Month is coming…
-
birds | Nature | Philosophy | poetry | Rivers
Calligraphy of the River Poet
As the temperatures rocketed into the 70s in Central Oregon after winter storms, I discover the “River…
-
-
Pacific Wren: Virtuoso of Spring in the Ancient Forest
My ears are chiming with Pacific wren song long after I’ve left the “Old-Growth Trail” in McDonald…
-
River Waltz
Deschutes River folds around an underwater rock to form a heart-shaped eddy. All splash. No waltz in…
-
backyards | forests | Nature | Philosophy | poetry
Walk Slowly, and Bow Often
“…and never hurry through the worldbut walk slowly, and bow often.” — Mary Oliver Mary Oliver’s poem…
End of content
End of content