Woods Walks

09/13/2022

This is incredible! Treat yourself! Have a listen.

A massive new collection of more than 240 songs and spoken word recordings — all about birds — features work from Andrew Bird, Kamasi Washington, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Cassandra Jenkins, Yo-Yo Ma, Beck and more.

04/29/2022

The earth [nature] and silence! Take a silent walk this weekend — feed your soul 🌏 🌲 🐿

Secretly we spoke, that Wise One and me.
I said, "Tell me the secrets of the world."
She said, "Shhh. Let silence tell you the secrets of the world.

~ Rumi 💚

www.earthschoolharmony.com

ko-fi.com/EarthschoolHarmony

04/25/2022

Yes! 🐇🐾🦌🐺🐻

The $90 million bridge will stretch 200 feet over U.S. 101 to give big cats, coyotes and other wildlife a safe path to the Santa Monica Mountains.

03/08/2022

Very cool! Next time you see a crow, ask them how they are feeling about themselves 🤓😁

01/31/2022

Bundle up. Get your nature in! 😁⛄️🐾🪶

More and more evidence suggests that nature does something essential for our mental health

01/01/2022

2022 🌌🎆🙏🧙🏽‍♂️🌲

01/18/2021

11/27/2020

WAITING
By Toko-pa Turner

There is a good kind of waiting
which trusts the agents of fermentation.
There is a waiting
which knows that in pulling away
one can more wholly return.
There is the waiting
which prepares oneself,
which annoints and adorns
and makes oneself plump
with readiness for love’s return.
There is a good kind of waiting
which doesn’t put oneself on hold
but rather adds layers to the grandness
of one’s being worthy.
This sweet waiting
for one’s fruits to ripen
doesn’t stumble over itself
to be the first to give
but waits for the giving
to issue at its own graceful pace.
© Toko-pa Turner (2013)
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11/24/2020

Goes out,
comes back—
the love life of a cat.
~ Kobayashi Issa
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11/20/2020

I Write of That Journey
By Mirabai (16th Century Hindu princess and mystic poet)

I remember how my mother would hold me.
I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.

I understand now what was happening.
Love so strong a force
it broke the
cage,

and she disappeared from everything
for a blessed
moment.

All actions have evolved
From the taste of flight;
the hope of freedom
moves our cells
and limbs.

Unable to live on the earth,
Mira ventured out alone in the sky -
I write of that journey
of becoming as
free as
The Beloved.

Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across
the universe.
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11/18/2020

“Take Care”
By Michael D. Higgins
(current president of Ireland)

In the journey to the light,
the dark moments
should not threaten.
Belief
requires
that you hold steady.
Bend, if you will,
with the wind.
The tree is your teacher,
roots at once
more firm
from experience
in the soil
made fragile.

Your gentle dew will come
and a stirring
of power
to go on
towards the space
of sharing.

In the misery of the I,
in rage,
it is easy to cry out
against all others
but to weaken
is to die
in the misery of knowing
the journey abandoned
towards the sharing
of all human hope
and cries
is the loss
of all we know
of the divine
reclaimed
for our shared
humanity.
Hold firm.
Take care.
Come home
together.
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11/14/2020

That Believe in Gravity
~ Hafiz

“The wind and I could come by and carry
you the last part of your journey, if you
became light enough,

by just letting go of a few more things you
are clinging to…that still believe in
gravity.”
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