On a recent trip to Michigan to visit our families I very much enjoyed walking with my sister in a large field they have wilded from the corn field it…
I find it too easy to start my morning on my computer. Granted I have a lovely view out the window, a view that always includes flowers and bees and…
A couple of people helped me remember how this old world can work, actually does most of the time. My neice, Emily, sang a song she wrote about how the…
It is all to easy to describe our world as “crazy” when, in fact, most of it—at least the non-human part—is much better described as fascinating or even miraculous. When…
The weather has been pretty much perfect here in Vermont this Spring and Summer for a gorgeous garden. I hope you can take a few minutes and enjoy it as…
Last week we got FIVE new trees in downtown Montpelier, between Main and Elm Street. This was an stretch that had been decimated in last year’s storm water construction project.…
This time of year the phrase “turning over a new leaf” should maybe, instead, be “growing a new leaf.” When I slow down and just see my surroundings, the changes…
What happens to me when I step off the river bank and into the water is more than just getting my feet wet. Suddenly I’m in a world that is…
As I sit inside at this keyboard the sun is warming me even with high winds and very low temperature outside. I know not all can feel this peace. Too…
We have to expect that there will on occasion be a storm; it is just part of the way the weather system on our planet works. Until recently, prior to…
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