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Ten Life Lessons from Ten+ Years Living Off Grid
I lived without utility supplied electricity, water, or sanitation for over a decade. Was it all romance, extensive fanfare, and free living? Not a chance. It was time consuming, high maintenance work requiring constant presence. Living off grid means you are a chief maintenance person, head of parts, repairs and the main author and chief responder […]
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Remember Climbing Trees? People Are Taking to the Trees Again
The act is natural, refreshing and fun. Do you realize that tree climbing can help save your sanity, tone your muscles, quiet your mind, and create strong leadership sorely needed for this generation and those to follow? Climbing itself builds balance, confidence, wherewithal, and courage. It allows us to toy with our playful selves, stretching […]
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Responsible Ways to Share Spiritual Experiences with Your Dog in Nature
There’s nothing like watching a dog let loose in open nature. They live for this experience. It supercharges their vitality. Leaping, chasing, sniffing, racing…the whole nine yards. I often find I live for these same freedoms and experiences after spending so much time inside. I’ve also observed my dogs in poignant moments outside as well. […]
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Wonder for Water…
Water is a wonder in my life. I visualize amazing, purified water in ponds, streams, lakes and oceans. I watch the beauty with my mind’s eye, as water purifies, all of her dependents breathe deeply with a sigh of relief. I love water in any state. Wherever I go, whatever water I interact with, whether […]
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Spirit Water-Broken Water; A Drink of Leadership For the Ages
Poetically, it is the life blood of the Earth. Vitally, it easily trumps oil as our number one resource. Commonly, it is just boring, old water. Our continued blind-eyed indifference, however, has put Earth in the waiting room for a transfusion. Or have we already accepted and doctored the equivalent? That’s what Chief Leslee White-Eye […]
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Look-a-Likes Welcome Winter
Last night the moon was so bright and the sky was super clear. But, was it cold! There’s something about 3 or 4’C that often seems colder to me than when the mercury dips below zero. This is my ultra-short homage to the greener, warmer days of spring, summer and fall. Enjoy these ‘look-a-likes.’ These […]
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Deep Connection with Wild Animals: Avenues for Right Relationship with Earth
Being one of millions and millions of ‘living*’ planets now discovered, the Earth, in essence, is a wild animal within a greater population. We’re in sad and yet exciting times. We know a lot. We are aware. We are very skilled, loving and crafty beings. All of this and since I was born (1970) we […]
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Big Impacts Across Small Spaces…Doug Tallamy Photosynthesizes the Case for Native Plants
All photographs by Ben Porchuk. Tallamy talks nature in Toronto. Toronto… and nature? Yes, Toronto, the city of over 6 million people. It might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of re-building the natural world. But Doug Tallamy, an entomologist from the University of Delaware, was invited specifically to […]
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Who, Me, You? A Forest Therapy Guide?
If anyone out there is remotely considering becoming a Forest Therapy Guide and the upcoming New Zealand training is on your radar, then I’d strongly recommend waiting no longer. But, who am I to say? It recently occurred to me that every person I have recommended to go to guide training camp has come to […]
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