The Songs of Trees: non-fiction prose that reads like poetry at times. I’m normally a pretty fast reader, and this book made me slow down and enjoy how he uses language, as well as the message he expresses. For budding botanists and tree-loving kids, here’s a description of a maple tree. “Lime yellow flowers dust the maple tree’s canopy. Peppercorn-size bells hang from filaments at the tip of almost every…
Hope, Springtime and Jane Goodall
This week I started a three-week meditation series with the resounding theme of HOPE. Springtime is a natural season to renew our hope and optimism about present and future possibilities. It’s the message of the time of year–birth, renewal– from Imbolc in February to Ostara, Easter and Spring equinox in the months following. While we think of New Year as January 1st, in the dead of winter, Chinese, Tibetan and…
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