Wildlife – Pileated Woodpecker
This pileated woodpecker made a visit on our last day in Lutsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_woodpecker
Trust and Respect
All animals have the capacity for trust if we respect them first.
Poem – Hidden Sun
Alone in the fields within the changing forest the sun plays a game we have no influence over...
Poem – A Natural State
Guided by instincts pushed aside by life’s demands to survive each day we quickly find our place steeped...
Poem – Remind
We age from the burden of each day’s moments, trials, and tests. We lose track of time, people,...
Poem – Woods
In the woods we take the worn path of hard dirt and decaying leaves following the recent activities...
Robinson Jeffers – Carmel Point
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses- How beautiful when...
My religion is the open empty field
(1) I passed through the window looking for the outside and landed back here in my mind. When...
Dogs of Summer #3
North to the St. Croix River we headed on a perfect grey and rainy summer morning. With just...
The Voice in the Forest
I pass trees on either side, deeper into the forest and further form the fields, leaving one realm...
The Light Settling in the Woods
Old growth trees line a worn path cut from loggers decades before. The floor is covered with...
Dogs of Summer #2
On a somewhat grey and dreary day we headed north to the fields and trails near the Wild...
Dogs of Summer #1
Summer is not quite here, but that does not deter the sun, warmth, and life within the forest....
Poem – Let Go
There is something in the forest seen and not seen, the light scatters, ebbs, and flows. I am...
Retreat Vignettes – #2
Tall pine holds up the sky free of clouds as the sun passes overhead. I look beyond the...