The in-between can be terrifying. Or it can be a quite marvellous space.
Read MoreThe place you call home has been holding and supporting life for all time. Today, it holds you.
Read MoreIt was bliss. Everything after that was quietly measured against how close to, or far from, that feeling it might take me. What was it? Where did it come from, where did it go, and how do I find it again?
Read MoreTo see stars that are very faint you need to avert your gaze. To see them, you don’t look straight at them. You pretend, oh so casually, to look elsewhere. You sneak up on them unawares. You side-eye them.
Read MoreFeeling out of the step with the world is an uncomfortable thing.
Read MoreLast evening I was called into the night by an owl
Read MoreThey were flying in every direction. In pairs and threes, groups of five or more. They go every which way, crossing paths, splitting off, groups coming together, parting and patterning the sky.
Read MoreRun your hand over the hydrangea head. Only when it sounds papery is it ready to pick
Read MoreOut walking, I stepped well away from the road when a car was coming. After the car passed I went to take a step, looked down and found this at my feet.
Read MoreI have created a playlist of my nature-related poems…
Read MoreI worked the seed heads in my hands, round and round, pressing my thumb as you would with a clay pot. I could feel the layers of thin stems pressing together, becoming tangled.
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Read MoreI found this beautiful video created by Dennis Hlynsky showing the flight patterns of birds and insects.
Read MoreThis summer my daughter and I read The Borrowers…
Read MoreSuch busyness. Such relentless directed effort in building a nest…
Read MoreThere’s nothing like going from a valley to the shore to blow the sides out completely…
Read MoreThings are falling in the most beautiful way…
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