Lessons from the Wild… Deep Ecology of the Great Smoky Mountains 31 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Once again, birds singing in the rain, and though I’m far from home, I’m home again – this time in America’s most visited park. Looking out from my…
Lessons from the Wild If the Earth had hands 31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 The earth seemed to shake It shook as if to tell me to stop, to quit it. I couldn’t feel it of course. Once I did it again, the earth…
Lessons from the Wild… Nature’s Layers 30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Nature's Layers Čavljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina Photograph by Micaela Edelson Hailing from Salem, Oregon, Micaela Edelson is a passionate writer and photographer aiming to shed light on humanity’s prioritization of…
Lessons from the Wild Milkweed 30 Dec 202024 Dec 2020 Photograph by Greg Clary Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, Clarion PA. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine, Looking…
Lessons from the Wild… Gorgeous Envy 30 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If I had a diamondback terrapin I would name her Spartina after the brack-water grass where her kind nest If I had a green tree frog I would name her…
Lessons from the Wild They Say 29 Dec 202028 Dec 2020 They say before the first sunrise There must have been a germ of light, Some blossoming of dawn Muting the darkness, Some hint of knife-edged rock, And the splash of…
Lessons from the Wild… The Return 29 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Stiff, stifled, stuffed Barricaded and boxed in. A chair-shaped caricature of myself, Imprisoned in flesh, slowly dying, To get out. I did not know. I did not know,…
Lessons from the Wild Spring Thunderstorm 28 Dec 2020 And so this farmhouse. Not the worst place to weather a pandemic-storm as well as watch the old fashioned-spring-thunder type dinging up the apple tree below this bedroom window. I…
Lessons from the Wild… Addendum to the Canticle of the Creatures Written on the California North Coast 28 Dec 202028 Dec 2020 From a blue so deep the sky burns in envy, to a gentle gray a shade darker than the compact clouds above, every few hours you don a different dress,…
Lessons from the Wild… Divination 28 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 I try to read the hieroglyphs of geese scribbled across the clouds, a wavering message moving south. This means something, I think, this shorthand of theirs, but I am unversed…
Lessons from the Wild… Growing Idea 27 Dec 2020 Photograph by Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay writes a lot, sometimes publishes, and would rather be caught fishing. He mows his lawn on Saturdays, naps daily, and reverses his underwear in…
Lessons from the Wild After the Storm 27 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 Battered by wind and deafened by thunder, convinced you’ll never make it through alive. Huddled in shelter you’ve hidden under, until you decide that you will survive. The raindrops slow…
Lessons from the Wild… An Olfactory History of Cantaloupes 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 Cantaloupe sprouts smell like fully-formed cantaloupes when I water them. The air in the greenhouse is already heavy with moisture; the thermometer says 90 degrees by 9am. Water hits the…
Lessons from the Wild… Message from a Snake 27 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 When FEAR presents itself: Be in the moment. Take a deep breath. Listen to your heart. Don’ t allow FEAR to blur your vision on this journey through life!…
Lessons from the Wild Cottonwood Seeds 26 Dec 202024 Dec 2020 A million of them weigh less than three pounds. No wonder they lift away on the wind, miniature paratroopers buoyed by filaments finer than a spider’s web and carried for…
Lessons from the Wild… Delicate Geometry 26 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 A spider never sees its web. Not really. Not as we see it. The delicate geometry of it — The implications. There’s No real cunning, is there? No Stratagem. Every…
Lessons from the Wild… Wilderness Dreams 25 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 In the dream he had, he tells me I am sitting on the front steps, my mother The step below, leans against my legs. We are laughing, the way…
Lessons from the Wild Cat & Mouse 25 Dec 202024 Dec 2020 Photographs by Marcus Fields. Marcus Fields was born in Michigan and attended Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, where he received a bachelor’s degree…
Lessons from the Wild Wild Proposition 24 Dec 2020 Wild Proposition With this October snow, the robin on the post outside my window glances at my evening cocktail, not impressed, she eyes the pale worm at the bottom of…
Lessons from the Wild… Inspiration from the tree roots 24 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 Just like the tree... our lives are uprooted and exposed. Our wounds are revealed... not for us to suffer, but for us to heal them. Lower frequencies cannot exist in…
Lessons from the Wild… Horseshoe Crab 23 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 I read about its ancient history in the local paper. Now, here was one stranded outside the motel, its underside exposed like an offering to seagulls or the sun. How…
Lessons from the Wild Walking the saltings 23 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Wigtown Poem by Finola Scott. Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland), Finola Scott's poems are on postcards, tapestries, posters and magazines including New Writing Scotland, PB and Lighthouse.…
Lessons from the Wild… Laying Down Your Burdens 22 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 After emptying the foil tuna packet I pour in some water, slosh it around and drink it; repeating until I’ve consumed every fleck of fish and drop of oil.…
Lessons from the Wild… Life Within the Desert 22 Dec 202022 Dec 2020 The Coyote’s Melody Sometimes mournfully, sometimes joyfully Yet all the while determined—it sings Like no other, except for itself—carrying Hot paws, empty stomach, yet its Soul filled with life—climbing To…
Lessons from the Wild… I.O.U. 21 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 There are unclaimed promises within each moment you find awe; a contract that has been agreed upon with each striking sight. You become indebted. Choose to keep it sacred, silent…
Lessons from the Wild Rachel 21 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 Rachel (in honor of nature lovers Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman) She strolled up the rocky Boothbay beach binoculars in hand in late spring on Southport Island orange and black…
Lessons from the Wild… The Eagle 20 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 The young eagle screams from its nest in the towering pine with the broken top on the tiny island across the lily-padded bay. He screams out of loneliness…