On my walk home from a community event last night, I noticed we’re in the thick of the first step of abundance in our growing season. Plants are in bloom, there is visual interest everywhere. The air is soaked with sweet fragrance, a call to the pollinators that will kick start the fruiting of this … Continue reading Joy
Category: nature
Relationships are everything. Every living being exists as part of a network or system. When we look at something or someone on their own, we are examining something only in isolation, and we necessarily miss essential information and understanding because we are discounting context, that is to say, the whole picture. The whole picture is … Continue reading Relationships
There’s nothing that affects perspective like the lens of geological time. And there’s nothing that draws our attention to geological time more than actually seeing the layers, be they in stone, through what remains after erosion, or what we see when we delve into the earth, like the type of soil we come to know … Continue reading Layers
It is a holiday weekend in Canada, sort of the unofficial kickoff to summer and therefore an opening of the gardening season. Some years the weather is sunny and warm, allowing for us to be outside to our hearts’ content and other years, well, it’s cool and bit dreary. This year, it’s cold and so … Continue reading Growing
When was the last time something completely outside of yourself caught your attention? Was the moment something you were deliberate about creating? Or did it take you by surprise, happening seemingly out of nowhere? How often do you find yourself marveling at how lucky you are to be in the particular space and time you … Continue reading Invitation
Recently I've found it difficult to access a sense of where I am in time and space. I know, this sounds a bit dramatic, but what I mean is I've always had an innate sense of where we are in the year and somehow this has been disrupted. I can't seem to locate myself the … Continue reading Locate
forest reprieve When we experience overwhelm, we are never exactly sure what tips us over into a place of too much. Is it the lack of rest? Too many demands on our time and energy? Is it waning energy in ourselves that just happens to coincide with busyness? Some combination? Does it matter why we … Continue reading Restore
