Touching Nature
I so miss the days of hugs, playful shoves, sitting closely together…the experience of touch is one of the most important and innate ways we connect and respond to each other. Physical distancing requires us to lose so much of this source of comfort. Consider...
Nature Walk for Connecting and Easing Stress
The pains of a pandemic spring and the new possibilities emerging Winter was long and spring was rainy. The stress connected to Covid-19 made those gloomy spring days nearly intolerable. Normally a rainy April is a time to enjoy the coziness of those last days of...
Connecting with ‘Animal Being’
To Learn from Animal Being by John O’Donohue, in “To Bless the Space Between us: A Book of Blessings”. Nearer to the earth’s heart, Deeper within its silence: Animals know this world In a way we never will. We who are ever Distanced and...
Visualizing Nature to Calm Anxiety
Using your imagination You know that place you go to and when you’re there, you can breathe more deeply and loosen those tight shoulders without even trying? Maybe it’s a place you visit often, maybe it’s a place you’ve been to once and hold...
Bird Feeder TV
We just put out bird feeders a couple years ago, when we’d decided our geriatric cats were old and slow enough to be of very low risk to an intentionally dense and localized bird population. We put the feeders out on a whim, totally unaware of the countless...
About Me
I’ve worked in both the social service and environmental education fields, and have learned that combining the two is a deeply powerful way to support people.