Category Archives: Nature Awareness

Another sign of winter

Posted on 17 November 2011 by

On my way to work this morning, I saw buds on the tulip magnolia trees by the Episcopal church. It’s a funny thing: The tulip magnolia buds in November, and the fuzzy buds endure the whole of winter, rain snow … Continue reading →

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Belonging to the land

Posted on 7 November 2011 by

I’ve borrowed my title from a post by Nimue at Druid Life in which she writes feelingly of this sense of belonging as a distinctly Druid idea and as a basis for ethics and practice. “If we belong first and … Continue reading →

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Winter is here

Posted on 5 November 2011 by

A mourning dove and a small flock of sparrows are foraging in the bushes just outside my front door. After watching them through the window for a bit, I grabbed the only bird guide I could find (where is my … Continue reading →

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Nature and Earth

Posted on 23 September 2011 by

One of the chief reasons I am a druid is because “nature spirituality” is important to me. But when I ask myself, “What is nature spirituality? What is ‘nature’?” I find I don’t have any easy answers. The root of … Continue reading →

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Worthy of a haiku, if I could write it

Posted on 29 March 2010 by

Yesterday I saw a dead rat, squashed-looking and rather decomposed, covered with pink petals from the blooms of a nearby tree.

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A pause on the road

Posted on 11 September 2009 by

I may try to ignore it, but I feel the energies shifting around me.  It hasn’t really been summer for weeks.  We had three weeks of our worst heat and humidity at the beginning of August, after a comparatively mild … Continue reading →

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How to scare the bejeebies out of a cockatiel, or, nature awareness at home

Posted on 29 April 2009 by

 I was getting ready to pop into the shower for my morning ablutions when I heard both my boys, Sandro and Rembrandt, racketing around and squawking.  I hurried down the hall, wondering what was causing all this mad flapping and outcry, … Continue reading →

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Earth Day

Posted on 22 April 2009 by

I had nothing profound to say about Earth Day, though it has been in my thoughts; one can only quote Mary Oliver so many times. *g* Then William Harryman gave me the perfect image, with a modicum of words: This … Continue reading →

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The sound of the Wheel turning

Posted on 15 April 2009 by

It’s been raining for months, it seems–not so, of course, but it’s been overcast for much of the past week, with rain coming in on Monday night.  Still, as I plodded to the bus stop yesterday, I felt it–the shift. … Continue reading →

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Life in sixty seconds

Posted on 12 February 2009 by

A short video that condenses the timescale of earthly evolution to one minute. Pay attention or you’ll miss the invention of writing. Thanks to Integral Options Cafe for the link!

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