Winter solstice

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This is maybe my very favorite, most hopeful day of the year when the year's light-tide turns. We started the day, lighting only candles...

knowing your environment

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In 1981, Coevolution Quarterly published a 20 question quiz written by Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley tha...

community art

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I have rarely loved the winter with its snow and cold finally as much as I have this year. Maybe it is a direct result of having an extra la...

Zauberwort

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I have been loving the wintery, snowy, windy weather lately, and I can't help but think of this wonderful poem, about Opa, how cold he a...

a murmuration

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One of my favorite animal group names is a murmuration of starlings. These beautiful pictures capture that onomotopeia so perfectly.  Captur...

going in

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“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” - John Muir photo ...

scenes from home

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  Especially after last night's despicable show, I am choosing to focus on more scenes from my backyard, introducing such a beautiful se...

celebration of the universe

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These are utterly stunning--wie sind Welten so schön! I hope you are enjoying something beautiful today--Happy Sunday!  The winning entries ...

home

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  It is on the brink of fall just before plants and trees have smelled the cool air, and this landscape where I live is so beautiful. I can ...

the ancient ones

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  Wow, this is amazing. What have we lost in the giant American land grab called expansionism? Photo: Rick Dunnahoo (2020). There was a rare...

watch museum

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  This is beautiful, and so very Swiss!  Spiraling Museum in Switzerland Designed to Mimic the Swirling Mechanics of a Watch By  Jessica Ste...

summer joy

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May your Sunday be full of joy like this!  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amy Sedaris (@amysedaris) on ...

tabula rasa

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A fresh new year--one of my favorite times of year, replete with new possibilities of getting my life under better control, learning ho...

1st advent: missing the clean white and long blue shadows

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Hello again, dear Friends--This article caught me by surprise, and I realized it has been too long. I am not sure what it is about long wi...

sunset yarns

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I am on an art installation kick this week-- this one is inspired by Kansas sunsets! Eric Rieger, a contemporary artist who goes by the n...

sun dial installation

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I love the typography and celebration of the sun in this... such a great example of considering the difference between slow vs. long, fast ...

looking up

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THE MORE LOVING ONE by W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth in...

the Milky Way

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By photographing two separate nighttime scenes, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere, amateur astrophotog...

one h*ll of a forest bath

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In celebration of the Redwoods, one of the most hallowed places, I was cruising the internet and came across this: I grew up in these tr...

leadership... future fridays

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I have a new boss at work, and this approach has rung quite true for me. It also has applications in personal relationships and ensemble...