Noticing Nature Practice: June 8
What does the weather sound like today? Is it windy, silent, or rainy?
Tag: Nature Activity
Noticing Nature Practice: June 7
Today’s prompt, which has extra layers of meaning for me these days: What color do you notice today? Today, I am noticing my own internal whiteness (and my epidermal whiteness which is polka dotted with itchy, red mosquito bites.) Both the internal and the external …
Noticing Nature Practice: June 6
A Poem/Prayer For Today: Gentle Goddess, Who never asks for anything at all, and gives us everything we have, thank you for this sweet water, and your fragrance. —Lee Welch
Noticing Nature Practice: June 5
Today’s Prompt: What does nature feel like? Touch a leaf, a bloom, bark, dirt, a rock, or something else.
Noticing Nature Practice: June 4
Today’s prompt is going to be controversial, for sure, but I challenge you to this practice of going barefoot. See what happens . . .if you dare! Go barefoot outside for a while – or longer. How do you feel?
June’s Noticing Nature: June 3
When I am feeling particularly depressed, stressed, and anxious, I offer my sadness to nature, and nature is always there for me. Everyday nature quite literally feeds us with the food we eat and the water we drink, but nature also feeds our souls. Nature …
June’s Noticing Nature Practice
Increasingly I have a desire for recognizing that everyday is sacred, and that we should realize the sanctity of each day through making sacred the everyday. I could go on for paragraphs about how I am trying to actualize this in my own mundane life …
Noticing Nature Notebook
Hi Folks! As we are continuing to stay rooted at our homes, I have been thinking about my practice of noticing nature. This little practice has evolved to most recently be a daily sketch and scribbles about some aspect of nature, with which I have …
Happy Arbor Day!
Happy Arbor Day! I feel so grateful to be surrounded by trees with whom I am in love! The greatest of my loves are the oaks and the sycamores, but there is a beech that is also catching my attention these days. My husband Patrick …
Honeysuckle Beads
At Spring Bird we are steeped with an invasive honeysuckle, with which we are probably going to be at war forever. But, aside from constructing dead hedges with the fallen soldiers, we are constantly trying to invent other purposes for it. Last year, I turned …
Making Rainbows
Today you might be feeling restless, afraid, nervous, bored, secluded, happy, sleepy, or some mixed cocktail orchestrated by these uncertain times. For me, this uncertainty of emotions mirrors the uncertainty of the weather that we experience in Spring. A Spring day contains multitudes – bitter …
Three Ways to Feed the Birds!
We are entering the final weeks of Winter! This is a beautiful time to take notice of the birds and animals around us who have weathered Winter. They are as hungry for Spring as we are! It’s eay to help out the birds – who …
Pieced Paper Garlands!
This time of year, I begin to crave color! I have had enough of the monochromes of white, grey, and brown! Garlands are a great way to add color and levity to a drab environment. They are like jewelry for your house. I suppose they …