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.
Tag: Nature Reflection
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 …
Woolgathering Spring Issue – Feed Your Cats Comic
I am sharing this comic from the 2020 Spring Issue of Woolgathering because I am feeling the need for some levity and thought perhaps you are feeling the same. It’s Monday. It’s another week in quarantine. We are surrounded by uncertainty and fear. We are …
May’s Flower Moon
It’s another full moon! May’s moon is the Flower Moon, and from what I saw of her last night, she is a beautiful moon! That said, I suppose the moon is always beautiful. She is always the same, but what we see of her changes …
Bluebells in Bloom
This illustration was the cover of the Spring 2020 Issue of Woolgathering. Folks, I decided to be like Oprah and put myself on the cover this year. Here I am picking the bluebells – which I really don’t do. I do walk among them with …
Spring Ephemerals
Spring Ephemerals are my favorite part of Spring, and I feel like noticing them – paying attention to them is a full time job because Spring moves fast! (Right Ferris?) I want to give them as much of my attention as possible. This year, I …
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 …
Frog Song
I am eager to hear the forest frogs sing their mating songs! This illustration is from the Spring 2020 Issue of Woolgathering, my quarterly magazine about the seasons.Not yet a subscriber? Get your free issue: here:https://springbird.land/woolgathering/
Yellow-Bellied Sap Sucker
Last week, I really enjoyed watching a yellow-bellied sap sucker pick at the bark of the yew tree outside my office window. I was reflecting on this happy observation when walking back home with Lucy after our post-lunch stroll. Lucy surprised me by planting her …
Mushrooms
I made this mushroom illustration for the Spring 2020 Issue of Woolgathering, my quarterly ad-free magazine about seasonal mindfulness. And, then, today I realized that the limerick that I wrote for the April Woolgathering Podcast was also about mushrooms. Our shiitake logs have not produced …