Author Archives: Deborah

Last week’s post concluded with this blessing:May we experience the joy of solidarity:grieve together, celebrate birth together,honor our seasons,both personal and planetary,together,laugh with love’s demands,together,androot our trusting souls in humble ground,together. Today, I ask,what does it mean to come together?When I … Continue reading →

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I recently meet a young farmer with whom I resonate. We could be soul-sisters though I’m old enough to be her grandmom. As we squat across from each other at parallel rows of onions, we uproot tender green plants who … Continue reading →

This post rejoices in the healing medicine of creative expression.I must confess to defining creativity broadly. Absolutely every decision we make, every movement comes from the universe within us – in response to the cosmos outside us. Whatever we do … Continue reading →

When our cultural story changes, then the paradigms guiding our behaviors change, and so will everything else. Who will we become? I hope we have enough time to find out.*********************Part of the new story has to be to value older … Continue reading →

Tethered to my neck by a leather strap, the binoculars bang against my chest…**********************A hot potato, I want to fling the binocs into the forest. Instead, I push them into the bowels of my daypack. How did I learn to … Continue reading →

And yet…Glued to my face, the binoculars zoom me in close. I lose track of everything else as I marvel at water droplet stars sparkling on whiskers, twitching facial muscles, rolling eyes, claw glimpsed as a paw reaches. So close … Continue reading →

The last post ended: Looking like an island, the vegetation covered dome of Beavers’ lodge rises in the middle.************ I stop. I breathe. I gaze. At first, I notice little, so immersed am I in the happy feelings of success. … Continue reading →

I found my Alaskan Journal! It’s 1988 and I am attending the Sense of Wilderness Writers’ workshop in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park/Preserve east of Anchorage, Alaska. Home of the Kennicott Glacier and the remnants of the Kennicott Copper Mine, the … Continue reading →

On March 4th, 2023, a small group gathered at the base of a former blackberry slope to learn about plans for watershed restoration.  As we disbanded, an old friend joined me on the trail. Talk of salmon surfaced – how … Continue reading →