It has become obvious to me, in the last six months, how intensely drawn I am to nature writers. I purchased The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs, and am dutifully reading it chapter by chapter, savoring each one before moving on to the next, just as he recommends. I find however it is not enough, [...]
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From Soul of Nowhere by Craig Childs
Posted in Books on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Quote
Posted in Books on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“True beauty comes from within. Take a flower as an example. In the beginning it is only a bud. It does not yet show its loveliness to the world, it does not attract bees or butterflies, and it cannot yet become fruit. Only when it opens is beauty revealed in its center. There is the [...]
Cara Johnson
Posted in Books on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This children’s book author has been to our school three times. Most authors charge ridiculous fees to come to schools and do a brief talk $1500 a day…or more, lots more, as a poor urban school it just isn’t something we have capital for. Not Cara Johnson, she comes and just tries to get the [...]
Winter Aconite
Posted in Books, Flowers, garden on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Loren Eiseley From “The Star Thrower”
Posted in Books, Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“And the mind, in some strange manner so involved with time, moving against the cutting edge of it like the wind I had faced on the mountain, has yet its own small skull-borne image of eternity. It is not alone that I can reach out and receive within my head a hands breadth replica of [...]
Sacred Pathways
Posted in Books, nature on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So weird some how I stumbled on this test to tell how you draw near to God, there are several personality types apparently and the site I found also listed writers who are good to read for those who fit a specific style of spirituality. I cannot explain it well go to this site http://www.sacchurch.org/action-steps/sacred_pathways.htm if [...]
At Green Lakes
Posted in Books, nature on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading a book called “The Star Thrower” by Loren Eiseley. It is a lovely book of essays and poems. I like it because I minored in anthropology and the author was an anthropologist and because he writes about the human spirit through the perspective also of a naturalist.his writing style fits my personality [...]
A Simple Life
Posted in Books on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a snow day for me. I know I desperately need snow tires, the car somehow not getting traction this year. So I listened to the radio this morning, incredulous that at 6:45 no snow day had been called, fortunately I had to go downstairs to get my date book with the call-in number [...]
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien
Posted in Books, birds on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finished this book a couple of days ago. It is a lovely love story of a biologist and the owl she raised nearly from birth. I have to tell you I cried and cried at the end, but just loved the story. It is fascinating and is further confirmation of my own long held [...]
