Greetings on this winter solstice:) Wishing you much candlelight, mulled wine, hot chocolate and hibernation. I’ve finished teaching my first semester of geology at Moravian College, a new job for me at age 46. It turns out I love teaching, which is a pleasant surprise:) November marked the end of my work with Lehigh Gap Nature Center …
Today is the official first day of autumn! The arc of the sun begins to shift toward the south and the birds and butterflies are already migrating. To mark the season, here are words from the venerable Mary Oliver: Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness Every year we have been witness to …
Wishing you warmth and love on this first day of summer. Let’s begin with a few lines from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: “So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.” The world is fully alive again. We have bluebirds nesting …
Day and night are equal in length. It’s a pivotal moment, that will tip the balance of light and dark. So even though it still looks like this outside in my part of Pennsylvania: Soon, very soon, there will be this: That heart-quickening feeling of a first warm spring day is captured here by one of my …
Celebrate this quiet time between holidays by lighting some candles, taking a walk in the woods, looking at the stars or whatever you do to find stillness. That or plan something revolutionary. Some primal winter words from “Closing The Circle,” by Jim Dale Huot-Vickery: “Let the snow and ice and darkness, the winds and shadows, the deer …