A French fairy tale about a beautiful and gentle young woman who is taken to live with a man-beast in return for a good deed…
Life Began in a Garden
Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. For gardening…
Smokey Mountain High
The air was kind of hazy when we started out, but by 10 p.m. it had grown clear. I had my guitar with me and…
it’s a jungle out there meaning
It’s a jungle out there Disorder and confusion everywhereNo one seems to care Well I do Hey, who’s in charge here? It’s a jungle out…
Earth Laughs in Flowers
Though it’s often been attributed to e.e. cummings, it actually appears in Hamatreya, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. A slight misquote, its meaning taken out of…
A Vision of Beauty
I have been asked tonight to talk about a Christian vision of beauty, and I am first struck by the fact that this conversation would…
Rest a while and run a mile.
While resting between runs may make a lot of sense, it is much more difficult to wrap your head around the concept of resting while…
Simplicity that goes a long way
Sometimes making a task just a little simpler can make a huge difference. Making something 5% easier might make you 20% more productive. Or 100%…
Beautiful lantern
Whether floating across the night sky in the hundreds, drifting gently across the water, hanging from summer trees, draped on temples to ring in the…
Blue ocean waves flowing gently
The most common type of marine bioluminescence is generated by phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. A recent study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time…