Lessons from the Wild… Wildness Provides 5 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Wildness provides transcendental wisdom Seeping from nature’s system Enlightenment to listening youth Hidden, yet self-evident truth Warm breezy pineywood sages Sparrow with lessons for the ages Sings of seeds and…
Lessons from the Wild… A Mountain Mulls 4 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 I am a mountain, Like my peers, Big and strong Tall and long, I may be an Abode of spirits Or a pile of ore, A resting site For ancestors.…
Lessons from the Wild Vermont Mountains 4 Jan 20213 Jan 2021 Poem by Russell Willis. Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then, his poetry has been published (or accepted for publication) in…
Lessons from the Wild… Anxious Autumn Leaves 4 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Anxious autumn leaves- Wind through trees Blowing howling Shrieking tearing Violently ripped From their branches. Spinning wildly Soaring spiraling Up and around Until until until Falling Falling Falling…
Lessons from the Wild Surrender 3 Jan 20215 Jan 2021 Poem By Geneva Toland Geneva Toland is a writer, farmer, teacher and naturalist who currently lives in Southwest Colorado. She loves to wander through the woods, searching for tracks,…
Lessons from the Wild… Corvus corax 3 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 A raven coasts over the hill, over the late-autumn maples all amber, umber and ocher. He grasps the top-most branch of a white pine and looses guttural croaks that carry…
Lessons from the Wild… The Unraveling 2 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Kingfisher was putting on a show. Circling overhead as I soaked my parched skin in the rocky pool, fed by the hidden spring. They landed on a branch near…
Lessons from the Wild… I find myself 2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021 By Josephine LoRe Josephine LoRe is a first-generation Canadian who has survived covid mainly through the gift of zoom, which has transformed her computer screen into a portal opening onto…
Lessons from the Wild The Great Monarch Migration 2 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Today travel restrictions due to COVID-19 keep tourists away from the Great Monarch Migration. But two men linked to the butterfly reserve, outspoken to illegal logging in the forest, have…
Lessons from the Wild The Night the Whippoorwill Sang 1 Jan 202124 Dec 2020 Dinner simmered on the Whisperlite. Our hiking-tired bare feet prodded and pushed into the soft, dry oak leaves, the relief of shoelessness exquisite. The forest floor held the heat of…
Lessons from the Wild… Revisiting a Sanctuary for a Child Who Found Her Freedom 1 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Poem by Joni Caggiano Joni's blog is the-inner-child, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories. Take a look at Joni's work in Spillwords Press NYC (where she…
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…
