Nature takes no halfway measures. When in balance, with the sure and languorous change of seasons, we are lulled into the belief that our regimes and schemes hold sway, that humanity is all powerful in its display of dominance and power. Our technologies collude in the illusion of control and eminent domain over earths terrain, […]
The wonder of a soul in the outdoors
Update, Philosophical Distractions, Life
My instagram pic from last week We have only a coating of snow. Yes, I know. I should post more often. It is one of those winters that see-saw between normal temperatures and deep cold. I hate the deep cold. All our snow has melted away during the January thaws and now February has some […]
Rural Landscape
Shepherds from my nativity set I’ve been in the middle of my Christmas devotions on my Advent blog. While writing about the shepherds watching their flocks (from the Christmas story), I thought about the fact that while sheep were once a common sight in fields around here, there has not been a flock in recent […]
The Beauty Of Simplicity
Too often I complicate things. Design, schedules, life, conversations, in all these things I am a complex person who likes detail and intricacy. But therein is my great appreciation of simplicity. Sometimes all that busyness gets tiring, overwhelming, and the sweet refreshment of something simple stands out with such beauty that it makes me pause […]
Do We Really Need To Dumb Down Gardening?
Putting Everything On The Level Of Garden Catalogs Do we really have to hype gardening with lots of meaningless superlatives? Run on the quests of finding “the latest trend”? Or promote that everything in gardening can be “made easy”?I know we pander to marketing ploys as writers, everyone hungry for that scrap ( or maybe […]
Reconnecting With The Earth
Reconnecting with the earth is something a gardener does every year. There is a necessary time of dormancy in wintertime which is exacerbated for Northern gardeners like myself. That time of absence from the work of the garden, even from the presence of nature itself is something of a disconnection with time and season. As […]
