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Morning Medicine
Morning Medicine I take in, here on the little house porch, seated on a softening cushion in the straight-backed chair Jim Lemon made for me, dawn [...]
Morning by the River
The cool moss-covered earth beneath me dips into the edge of the Dolores River. Sitting quietly, I am held close on either side by the large exposed roots of [...]
Another Lesson From Mama Nature
Another Lesson From Mama Nature On my birthday every year for the past forty years or so, the Louisiana Iris bloom here at Earthsprings, the ones I brought from [...]
Beans, Fences, Puppies
June, 2008, Earthsprings Today I harvested from the garden at Earthsprings this year’s first beans, squash, and tomatoes. Meantime, I discovered that, overnight, deer had eaten three lovely young [...]
Wyoming
For three days I’ve been roaming around Southern Wyoming, an aging gypsy woman in a muddy four-wheel drive truck, too long confined to Texas flat land, now set free [...]
Rivers, Quotations
Many a time have I merely closed my eyes at the end of yet another troublesome day and soaked my bruised psyche in wild water—rivers remembered and rivers imagined. [...]
Because of Pandemic, Back to the Basics
Back to basics, then, to when sound was crickets, or surf, or the huffff of a startled deer in the edge of the woods, or wood burning in the [...]
Perspective
Many years ago, I was privileged to spend some time with an incredible man named Hyemeyohsts Storm. He described himself as a “breed,” his mother being [...]
Ancestry: Contemporary: Wild Iris and Other Blooming Memories
Here are pictures of some of the flowers I mentioned in today's podcast "Seventy Four Years Ago." Louisiana Iris, photo by Glenda Taylor, Earthsprings Retreat Center [...]
Calm Amidst the Turbulence
As I have navigated the turbulent currents of this week’s corono-virus events, I was reminded of something I wrote in my journal last summer; re-reading it [...]
Poem: First Flowers
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, even to a bonnet, [...]
Quotation: Is Change Coming?
"...In short, neither animal nor further human evolution is automatically progressive. Progress occurs when there is change toward a better condition, however that improvement is defined, whereas biological and [...]
Bread of Life
Just now I sat down with a steamy cup of tea and a thick, toasted slice of the homemade brown bread I made yesterday. What fun it had been [...]
Spider Medicine
Millions, maybe even billions, of short, silvery strands of sheer light are strung and restrung across and among the many overlapping, intertwined branches of this tall thick fir tree, sun [...]
Checking In
Contrary to most everyone’s expectations and advice, this being in Colorado has not been about resting. While I certainly needed to rest when I left Texas in July, and [...]
Bear Medicine
“I’m looking for bear tracks,” he states into the gathering dusk, a four, maybe five-year-old, his flashlight carving a circle of brightness at his feet onto the pebbly ground on [...]
Sentience, by Julie J. Morley
Sentience The Music of the Universe by Julie J. Morley There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as [...]
Carriers of Water in the Desert
A quote from Gerald Hausman: “Recently a Native American friend said, ‘We are all carriers of water now. Carriers in the desert. We cannot drop even a drop. We [...]
Animal Sensibility, by Glenda Taylor
Mother and Baby Elephant, via Pixa bay CC 2.0 By coincidence I've lately read several books about animal and plant sensibility, scientists detailing the emotional and intellectual life [...]
Resonance, Harmony, and Creativity
As I was working on this week’s podcast, Resonance, (which you will find here) I looked up some quotations I remembered reading years ago in [...]
Dancing With a Tornado: An Easter Story, by Glenda Taylor
Today, a week after the occasion of my 80th birthday celebration, which was a Dances of Universal Peace Four Day Camp at Earthsprings Retreat Center, my heart, mind, [...]
Spring!
Our woods are full of dogwoods, all scattered here and there in the forest around us, whiteness blossoming amongst the vivid spring green of the [...]
