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Curiosity heals, or how to make a bee mummy
Journal | Week of August 22, 2022
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Wild Now
What are you continuing that someone else began?
Journal | Week of August 15, 2022
Wild Now
Who is the person who still loves?
Journal | Week of August 8, 2022
Wild Now
[New] Sharing from my journal—lions and hawks and sunsets, oh my!
Journal | Week of August 1, 2022
That Day and How to Hold On to Others:
Living Forward From 9/11
Can Hurt Help Us See Each Other?
”Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."
— Patti Smith, singer-songwriter
My mother was one of
Can you heal grief by being a perfect stranger?
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once,
What You Need to Know
"True beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author of book, On Death
Singing to Stones
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." — Anatole France, French
What I Know About Ebola—Part IV
"I have two hands: one for me, one for other people."
— Millie Bobby Brown, actress and UNICEF Goodwill
Eating Chicken in the Villages
"I think dogs . . . are the role model for being alive."
— Gilda Radner, actress/comedian
At every mid-day meal,
What I Know About Ebola — Part III
"Viruses have to live somewhere."
— David Quammen, science writer
For a moment, it will look beautiful, a piece
Well, One Life . . .
"It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me."
— Cheryl Hayashi, spider biologist
Most
What I Know About Ebola—Part II
"Fruit bats found throughout Africa are thought to be natural hosts for the Ebola virus. How would they infect
Let Them Be Safe
"The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will
Arriving in Liberia
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
Hummingbird Feet & A Village Girl Near Binkolo
"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
— Kevin Kelly, former editor/publisher
The Luxury of Looking
"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
— Maya Angelou, poet &