Earth Day Is Every Day
Earth Day Is Every Day! It’s fine to have a special day to celebrate our one and only home, Planet Earth. It’s even more important that we celebrate, protect, honour and pay attention to her not just on this one, but every day! It does seem, praise be, that this awareness is growing and expanding...
Bloomin’ Mystery!
Earth Day is coming soon. Well, except that every day is earth day! How easy to celebrate it in the spring, when the earth brings and springs forth — blossoms, babies, bounty! Seeing these sweet duckings led me to reflect on the Mystery of life, of its unfolding, becoming… (I just love the process, the emergence, the dynamism...
For the Beauty of the Earth…
For the Beauty of the Earth — this lovely hymn came to mind as I woke this morning, Earth Day, and teared up at the wonder, the splendor, the extraordinary preciousness of this Pale Blue Dot we inhabit. At a recent Suzuki Elders AGM, I heard Carl Sagan’s Blue Dot speech. You might just want to...
Celebrate Earth Day with Gratitude and Action!
It’s Earth Day. And a glorious day it is here on the west coast. The leaves are in that magical state of opening that maximizes the luminous, bright greens. I’m dazzled as the light shines on and through the partially opened leaves to the blossoms and ground below. The herons are busy nesting in their...
