Heeding Nature's Calls to Love Her

Heeding Nature’s Calls To Love Her: My Nature’s Guy Manifesto

Nature’s calls resonate all around me. Whether I’m home on the banks of the West Chickamauga Creek in Northwest Georgia, at my Dad’s on Lake Winneconne, Wisconsin, or visiting my children, friends and relatives in Arizona, Utah, Lake Tahoe area or the Pacific Northwest, Nature’s calls reach out to me, grab me and hold me […]

The Earth Needs Us: Pulling Privet and Braiding Sweet Grass

Earth+Us: Lessons from Braiding Sweetgrass & Pulling Privet

I’m reading “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s about Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants written by a scientist who is also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer teaches botany and ecology at a university several times a week. One morning, she surveyed her 3rd year students, asking them […]