Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

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

Now

In between

How do you measure pain? The hospice nurse offers a range, one to ten. A place on her form wants

16 Apr

Photo of Water ouzel aka American Dipper on rock in stream

Now

Let's say

Let’s say there is a mountain and many ridges crowned with trees, some naked maples and alders, others spicy-

15 Apr

Photo of a water strider on the surface of a pont

Essays

So many ways to be small

I am practicing so many ways to be small. When the two chattering women with their two roaming, rebel dogs

14 Apr

Photo looking over a curve of moon at the earth.

Wild Now

Moon joy

What if the Earth's greatest mystery is found in the space of a human heart?

10 Apr

Now

Stray whiskers

A bowl of stray whiskers, feline. I can’t decide if they are a collection or an offering. Some are

01 Apr

photo of grey fox on a wooded trail at dawn

Now

Light-eater

"We eat light, drink it in through our skins." — James Turrell, artist & MacArthur Fellow, known for his

29 Mar

Now

Starfish

All night my mind full of starfish, their bodies a shock of salmon-y red, their bodies succulent hands and

28 Mar