How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~John Burrows The awareness of trees as conscious beings rather than something to harvest for human needs can completely transform how we feel when we walk among them. It makes us...
We hope that you are enjoying our mini-retreats from Torri Shafer’s “Romancing the Soul”. Here’s our latest selection, exploring seeing a bigger picture while walking and observing meditatively. Enjoy! Every morning when walk my dog down by the river, I encounter...
The other night, a friend invited me to go out to the prairie and watch the night sky. This is not something that I do regularly; in fact, I cannot remember the last time that I cast more than a passing glance upward after dark. I am usually staring straight ahead...
Every time one looks up at the sky, they can witness a new masterpiece on a massive scale that will never be repeated. Yet clouds are so ubiquitous that, for the most part, their beauty is disregarded. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society,...
Every morning, I walk around Lake Minnequa. It is in one of the bleakest neighborhoods in the city. Bordering it like a fortress wall are trailer courts and by-the-hour motels, mechanic shops and liquor stores. But the lake itself is pristine, a secret garden guarded...
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