Today I’m celebrating the fact that The Swans are Back on Medicine Lake. Though not as many as I saw last year, there are several families of Trumpeter Swans, gulls galore, and lots and lots of migrating ducks and Canada Geese on the lake right now. I first saw them Read more…
I greeted the morning on this cloudy Sunday by noticing the Amazing Glow of the sugar maple tree that I could see out my kitchen window. Though it glows every fall and this year’s glow is less vivid than other years, it still makes my heart leap to see it’s Read more…
I was cleaning my desk and office this morning when I found a quote that I had jotted down on the back of an envelope some time ago. For the life of me, I can’t remember when I wrote the quote down or who said it. But it still rings Read more…
Life is filled with wonder, mystery and awe, and it is filled with infinite cycles of beginnings and endings. There are ceaseless Murmurations of breaking and healing, dancing and grieving, loving and losing, birth and death — seasons turning like a wheel that never stops. Life is impermanent …one of Read more…
Yesterday I finished what might be the last edits on the essays I wrote for my photo book project. The book is called, “Looking For God,” and it’s about Holy Curiosity, the kind of curiosity that makes one feel wonder, awe, and grace in ordinary scenes from nature. I’m so Read more…