When our culture promotes a “normal” life as being one that leads to a partner and marriage, the ONLY path… When girls are encouraged to want the white picket fence and the 2.5 children, husband, dog in the yard, and debt up to their eyeballs… When toxic masculinity abounds, and “not all men” is shoutedContinue reading “Coupledom”
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From “Woman and Nature – The Roaring Inside Her” by Susan Griffin
“He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices form under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not partContinue reading “From “Woman and Nature – The Roaring Inside Her” by Susan Griffin”
From John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out ‘till sundown, For going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir
Fifty-two days, my Son my sun
Today after school is out my son gets to come spend time with me. I miss him like the trees miss the rain, like the earth misses the moon, skies dark without him, only little pricks of starlight to find my way. Every other weekend means twenty-six weekends a year and a few holidays. ItContinue reading “Fifty-two days, my Son my sun”
From Song of Myself, 31 and 48 by Walt Whitman
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars” “Stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
From “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
“Talk runs far afield tonight. The bends in the alders speak of long-ago disasters. Spikes of pale chinquapin flowers shake down their pollen; soon they will turn into spiny fruits. Poplars repeat the wind’s gossip. Persimmons and walnuts set out their bribes and rowans their blood-red clusters. Ancient oaks wave prophecies of future weather. TheContinue reading “From “The Overstory” by Richard Powers”
From “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
“Earth may be alive; not as the ancients saw her—a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight—but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil. Using sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change. ButContinue reading “From “The Overstory” by Richard Powers”
From “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, andContinue reading “From “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson””
“Twenty years from now…”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
From “Hippie Woman Wild” by Carol Schlanger
“When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don’t ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don’t chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. ButContinue reading “From “Hippie Woman Wild” by Carol Schlanger”
A Burd in Flight 