Be mindful of the world, Mary Oliver tells us in “Mindful,” a poem that echoes Wordsworth and Hopkins.
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Lose Yourself Inside This Soft World
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Summer’s Over, Back to School
The end of the Pooh books mourns the end of summer and the return to school.
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Novels with Waterfalls and Secret Caves
When I was growing up, the adventure books that I read influenced how I regarded and interacted with nature.
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My Heart Leapt Up
A rainbow sighting led to a discussion about how humans often turn to nature for guiding metaphors.
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Nature or Poetry? Choose Both
“The world is filled with the grandeur of God.” “The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion.” In my last two posts, I reported how poetry sprang to mind as I walked through some of California’s natural wonders, specifically Big Basin Redwoods State Park and Yosemite National Park. Today I meditate on the relationship of […]
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