All Points of the Compass
Quaquaversal-— adjective, “directed outward from a common center toward all points of the compass; dipping uniformly in…
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Trios of Renewal in the Three Sisters Wilderness
On an overnight backpack in the Three Sisters Wilderness, I am musing over trios, triplets, and tryptychs….
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Yucatán Return- Attending to Small Wonders
Within a tangled tropical garden, I am a gecko chirping, a great-tailed grackle swaggering, or perhaps a…
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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…
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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…
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Protect our Wise Forests: the “Immanent Groves”
“What is learned in the Immanent Grove is not much talked about elsewhere. It is said that…
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The Origin is the Confluence
On this dawning of white-crowned sparrow song sugaring into my open window, April Poetry Month is coming…
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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…
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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…
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