• The Facebook Community is Growing

    Even though I know it’s not all about the likes… my Facebook page has just reached 500 likes!! If you’re not already there, I’d love to see you on my page for more regular real-time conversations because you’re full of positivity and wisdom and we’ve always got time for that! Thank you for your light…

  • Rainbow Lorikeets Visit During the Evening Glow

    “There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.” Calvin Coolidge “Amor vincit omnia.”

  • Top Posts of 2013

    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin I have three (3 1/2) good excuses to make a ‘top posts’ post for 2013: it’s nearly the end of the year (close enough), I’ve just turned another year older…

  • The Tonic of Wildness

    “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us… We can never have enough of nature…We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and…

  • 6 Things I Wish for on my Twenty-Third Birthday

    Do you remember closing your eyes and making a wish before blowing the candles out on your birthday cake? When was the last time you did that? This year I wanted to make all birthday spirits and superstitions (the ones that don’t like you voicing aloud your secret wishes) squirm by putting my wishes to…