If had I known then what lay ahead for us, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy a single, magical moment, that didn’t always seem that magical, in the moment, but now is so easily recognizable.

…over the years, there have been may times when I’ve opened my mouth and, much to the confusion and bafflement of my kids, my Grandmother came out.

Put your fears aside, just for a time; feel the sharpness of frosted air, the brittle scent of what’s real, right where you are now.

Ours is a world reduced to valuing only that to which a number can be attached, yet this perception of life as a series of calculations leaves out everything that we cannot quantify.

Honestly, one must practically carry a translation guide to crack the code of common text messages sent by anyone under the age 35, what with all the LOL’s and BTW’s and NRN’s.

Where else do old tires get recycled into flower planters, swings for kids, No Trespassing signs and salt block feeders?

The truth is, as wonderful as an Only Good News channel sounds, we can all get better at making subtle shifts individually, that would achieve nearly the same outcome.

The climate may have changed only by a few degrees over the last couple centuries, but it seems our awareness of our own relationship to the earth, and nature’s influence, has been drastically altered to a far larger degree.