Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

Photo of steamy window with a heart drawn by a fingertip on the glass.

Wild Now

What sort of love is this?

Thoughts and a poetic piece about what happens when attention and open-heartedness come together

29 Jul

Photo of Grey fox sitting on a deck railing in the redwoods.

Now

Fox returns

Sometimes what you hope happens…happens. The grey fox appears at your feet, offering her wildness. She knows the taste

26 Jul

Now

Eating a bee

Last May a friend gave me a box of chocolates shaped like bees. Later I took a picture of one

19 Jul

Now

Someone I never was

The morning shuffle out of the bedroom, the way he pauses at the door hunched over his aluminum walker, looking

14 Jul

Now

Point of view

Accept the purples the night sky pours out over you, the stars, silvery pins holding it up, the way you

11 Jul

Now

Button

You still have the button from your husband’s trousers, a bit of marbled-brown plastic, found on the floor,

10 Jul

Photo of red-breasted nuthatch looking out of a hole in a tree.

Now

Sorrow, visiting

Sometimes, like a breeze passing over you, so subtle not even the tips of leaves and fronds of ferns move,

07 Jul

Photo of binoculars on a ledge aimed at a blurred distant sunset.

Wild Now

What if you decided to want all of it?

Exploring one way to travel the darker as well as the luminous parts of a life's journey

25 Jun

Image of illustration of sun with smiling face painted on wood.

Now

Summer solstice

If on phone, turning it sideways (landscape) best displays poetic line breaks. Let this day, beginning in grey light lapping

21 Jun

Photo of planks through beaver pond to beach and ocean.

Now

Two free hours

There is a moment in a caregiver's journey when hiring help in the home is essential to well-

07 Jun

Photo of a carved stone that says, Let the beauty we love be what we do, with stones, and two small Japanese red maple leaves.

Wild Now

On leaves and leaving

Love, constancy, and tending to what remains

07 Jun

Photo of two, soft blue socks hanging on a clothesline with woods behind.

Now

A caring rant

I can't tell you how many times over the last 8 years of solo, ever-evolving caregiving, people

26 May

Illustration of the Ursa Major Constellation inside a ghost bear in night sky above redwoods

Wild Now

What if you are walking in stars?

Exploring what's real—a three-part story

15 May

Now

Homely, lovely

For some it is the light, but for me, the darkness that opens a pathway. I let it pour into

27 Apr

Photo of water strider, close up, on the surface of a pond b

Wild Now

What does it really mean to be small?

A small, lyric essay

24 Apr

photo of Steller's jay feather on wood stump

Now

Evidence

There is a place in the woods below so holy you mistake it for ordinary. Within a universe of redwoods,

21 Apr

Now

International Haiku Day

In starlight, such peace. Bears, foxes, all come to you. By day, your heart, wild.

17 Apr

Now

Baring

Standing under a string of satellites, the night, a black kite, I lean out of my body. No wind, no

17 Apr