Creekside Ramble

Creekside Ramble

Today is sublime and the light that illuminates the forest this morning is dappled and green. Taking my time as I have nothing but time I do a slow deliberate crawl along the Creekside Trail. Familiar like an old friend this trail offers something new every time I...
The Mad Nakedness Of Nature

The Mad Nakedness Of Nature

I want to lose myself in the mad nakedness of nature, take a deep cleansing breath, a full immersion into everything that’s primeval, untamed and untainted by the toxic times that we’re currently living through. Here’s what I’ll do: I’ll hug trees, towering, ancient...
The Mad Nakedness Of Nature

Meditations On Green

green…the color of rebirth the color of the earth green is peace and quiet green is the shapes of leaves, pointy and round, sawtooth and smooth tinier than my pinkie nail and large enough to wear as a hat… green is rain life giving quenching rain that makes greeness...
Phantom Trees

Phantom Trees

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? If a tree is cut down in your neighborhood and no one notices that it’s gone was it ever there? Trees take up a lot of space, especially large ones like oaks or redwoods. The energy...
Musings On Technology

Musings On Technology

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut once said, “Computers are robbing us of the ability to be human.” This was decades before personal computers, smartphones, Siri and artificial intelligence became a normal part of everyday life. Vonnegut looked into the future and didn’t like...
An American Villain

An American Villain

My country is enveloped in a miasma of fear, anger, hatred and cruelty and one deranged narcissist bears sole responsibility for it all. Like the villain in the Harry Potter books whose name dare not be spoken I too will not speak the name of this modern American...