When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An...

“I love cooking in nature,” Liam tells me. He tosses the scrambled eggs around the pan gently with a fork. He’s carefully improvising the spatula...

  Rest and be thankful. ― William Wordsworth Sometimes I think about the early days of our family, when we’d harness babies to our bodies and...

I’m in the kitchen and can hear the tears. I follow their sounds and find Olive crumpled at the feet of the stairs, folded into...

I noticed my shirt was inside out while brushing my teeth the other day and realized this is how life feels right now: the same...

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul....

Maybe it was the way last week’s muddled grey clouds hovered like dust over my soul or the unexpected chill that forced us back into...

Things never happen the same way twice. ― C.S. Lewis The morning is slow, rare for us on any day, especially on a Saturday. Mark...

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. ― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems Last week the days grew so warm that on one...