The Beauty of Blogging – A Tribute to Fellow Bloggers and Followers
I discovered a whole new beautiful world when I began blogging four months ago. Until then I’d only read “professional” …
Category Archives: Writing
The Deer’s Scream, My Mother’s Eyes, and a Ripe Strawberry
The deer fleeing for its life turns to look at me with my mother’s eyes. Dark fierce eyes, bitter-bright, locking …
A Deer’s Scream – Beauty and Brutality at Home and in the Hills of Vietnam
The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here. A scream of pure terror …
Touching the Wild
“The word wild is like a gray fox trotting off through the forest, ducking behind bushes, going in and out …
Hot Hills in Summer Heat
“I watch them every summer, the hot hills crouched like a lion beside the road. I see the strength—tawny skin …
When Women Were Birds & Murmurations
I wanted to share this, a beautifully written post about women and writing and a review of Terry Tempest Williams’ book …
Wild Poet Talking Nerdy, Matthew Dickman
I stumbled across him by accident. One thing led to another and another, the way it often happens surfing the internet. …
Walking Among Flowers
Out of the dark blue sea rose a lush-green mountain ribboned with cascading waterfalls.This was what we saw after 29 …
Night Howls
Last month around this time when the moon was full, our nights were filled with howling. Almost every night we …
“Redwood Speech, Watershed Prayers”
The following essay by Francis Weller captures so much of what I feel about nature, the natural habitat in which …
