We’re loving Jane Hirschfeld’s wonderful poem I Wanted to Be Surprised. It is the lens through which we’ve been looking to discover uplifting…surprises…
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Lessons in Stillness and Quiet, with Mitch Epstein’s Astonishing Trees
At first, we only visited the New York Times “Lessons in Stillness from One of the Quiestest Places on Earth” because we wanted to see Mitch Epstein’s remarkable photographs of trees. But then, the story called us…
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Call of the Forest “a Way of Thinking About Trees and the Planet You Have Never Thought Before”
In “Call of the Forest, the Forgotten Wisdom of Trees”, botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger guides us into “the essentials of what a tree is all about”, something she says most people have missed, and that will change our view of the planet we inhabit.
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Beth Moon’s Photographs of Ancient Trees Under Night Skies are Magic
Inspired by studies that view trees as receivers of stellar energies, photographer Beth Moon traveled to the world’s “last dark places” to photograph ancient trees at night, in color.
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A Lesson in ‘Right Now’ From A Tree, Stonehouse and The New Yorker
The convergence of a tree in blossom, a poem by a 13th century Buddhist poet and a New Yorker cartoon provided a stunning lesson in ‘right now’.
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A Beautiful Trippy Voyage Deep Inside a Giant Redwood Leaf (with Big Bill Neidjie + Ansel Adams)
Two minutes of wonder to start the day: this wondrous, trippy visualization by the inside of a giant redwood tree leaf, with a remarkable poem by Australian Aboriginal elder Big Bill Neidjie…
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What The Trees Do When We’re Not Looking (with Poem)
We love things that find ways around constraints and are committed to being wholeheartedly themselves. On a walkabout recently, we saw a startling example.
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