My young friend Ruthie (age 8 ½) sent me pictures of a robin-sized bird with a fairly long bill, slightly curved downward. It also has a fairly long tail. It is a striking, rufus-brown on his upper parts and tail and creamy underneath with long splotchy streaks underneath. In some ways, it looks like […]

I first discovered Rupert Sheldrake’s work by reading his first two books: “A New Science of Life” written in 1981 followed by “The Presence of the Past.” These two books and his Rebirth of Nature changed my life because they validated my experiential reality and demonstrated that my personal experiences were located in a much […]

  Bubbling tweets, chirps and gurgles floated out of a wedge of dense scrub and shrubs along the road. Occasionally, I recognized part of a song from another bird. Then, I heard a mewing sound like a cat, but the singer quickly moved on improvising so that it seldom repeated the same note. I could […]

Today it was 90 degrees and I spent most of the afternoon with a friend wading in my brook – a body of clear mountain water that flows under a graceful canopy of trees, trees that sheltered us from the brutal Summer Solstice sun and kept the surrounding air moist and cool as well as […]