Tag: Nature Reflection

Noticing Nature Practice: June 17

Noticing Nature Practice: June 17

Notice the variety of nature’s textures today. Can you touch any of them? What do they feel like?

Noticing Nature Practice: June 16

Noticing Nature Practice: June 16

“Something essential happens in a vegetable garden. It’s a place where if you can’t say ‘I love you’ out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate, in beans.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, from Braiding Sweetgrass

Noticing Nature Practice: June 15

Noticing Nature Practice: June 15

What sounds do you hear coming from birds, animals, and/or insects?

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

Dear Friends of Spring Bird, This letter comes to you after weeks of grieving, protesting, learning, questioning, and dreaming of an anti-racist world devoid of police brutality and systemic racism. We at Spring Bird and indeed, the land, animals, birds, sky, insects, plants, water, and 

Noticing Nature Practice: June 14

Noticing Nature Practice: June 14

Tell a beloved pet, plant, person, or other being that you love them.

Noticing Nature Practice: June 13

Noticing Nature Practice: June 13

Look at nature from a distance – spend time with a landscape or look at nature closeup – or both. What do you see?

Noticing Nature Practice: June 12

Noticing Nature Practice: June 12

What smells do you notice?

Noticing Nature Practice: June 11

Noticing Nature Practice: June 11

Water flows over these hands. May I use them skillfullyTo preserve our precious planet. —Thich Nhat Hanh

Noticing Nature Practice: June 10

Noticing Nature Practice: June 10

Drink a glass of water. What does it taste like? How does it make you feel?

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Spend a moment outside, after dark. What do you notice?

Dog Days

Dog Days

Sweet Lucy!  This illustration is from the 2020 Summer Issue of Woolgathering, my ad-free publication about the seasons. I wrote about how adopting this silly, lovable dog has changed everything – including how we engage with nature!  I am SO grateful to our pets that 

Noticing Nature Practice: June 8

Noticing Nature Practice: June 8

What does the weather sound like today? Is it windy, silent, or rainy?

Noticing Nature Practice: June 7

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

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

June’s Full Strawberry Moon

June’s Full Strawberry Moon

June’s Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon! We just picked our first strawberries – just in time!  I am wishing you power and serenity this Full Moon!  You are powerful and remember to make time for some moments of sweetness.