A blog about our curious, confused connection to nature. Are we a part of it or separate from it? Or both? In these days when nature is declining in our lives, how do we restore some balance, individually and collectively?
This summer I’ve been watching a former hay field return to what it was when we first moved to New Hampshire decades ago: a gorgeous meadow, filled with perky daisies, regal lupus waving in the wind, slender foxglove, golden columbine, corydalis with its blue and yellow heart-shaped flowers. Recently, the wild blueberries on the fringes of the hayfield have begun to explore the interior.
Read More...off the Galapagos Islands, I watched several sea lions playing around our small boat. Our guide asked me if I wanted to go into the water with him and “visit with them.”....We grabbed our snorkels and dived into the water. The sea lions continued their play, undisturbed. Except for one mother—she came over to the two of us, with her baby in tow. The mother sea lion was quite large...
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