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05/10/2026

Today, we honor the mothers woven throughout the living world 🌎

The bear teaching her cubs where the salmon run. The elephant guiding her herd through memory and drought. The Sandhill crane relaying ancient routes. The monarch mother passing the torch of intergenerational migration. The orca matriarch carrying decades of knowledge through the sea. The songbird building a nest branch by branch.

Across ecosystems, motherhood is not only nurture, it is guidance, protection, teaching, sacrifice, intuition, sacred protection, and relationship. And beneath all of these relationships is another mothering presence we all belong to: Earth herself.

The rivers that nourish. The forests that breathe. The soil that grows food from decay and sunlight. The pollinators, oceans, rain, and wind that sustain life in countless unseen ways.

Today is also a thank you. A thank you to and honoring of the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, mentors, caretakers, community leaders, and protectors who help others grow. Mothering figures of every form, human or non, flora or fauna.

The wild reminds us that flourishing has never been an individual act. Life continues through care, through those willing to tend who and what is vulnerable into becoming. Through those who recognize that becoming is a blossom of the roots of belonging.

Happy Mother’s Day to all who mother life in any form. 🌎💛

05/10/2026

Happy World Migratory Bird Day!! 🐦‍⬛

Each spring and fall, billions of migratory birds move across the planet, journeying through skies, wetlands, forests, coastlines, deserts, and cities.

A warbler weighing less than a handful of paperclips may travel from Central or South America to northern forests. Sandhill cranes gather along rivers in Nebraska on their way north. Shorebirds cross entire oceans, navigating by stars, magnetic fields, sunlight, and memory.

Migration is one of Earth’s great connective systems. Migratory birds disperse seeds across landscapes, transport nutrients between regions, pollinate plants, regulate insect populations, and serve as indicators of ecosystem health. Their journeys link biomes and the health of one place affects the health of another.

A wetland drained along a migration route can impact breeding success thousands of miles away. Artificial lights in cities can disorient birds flying at night. Pesticides applied in one region move through insects, water, soil, and food webs that migratory species depend upon across continents.

And yet, despite the immense challenges they face, migratory birds continue their resilient journeys, crossing borders humans invented, following pathways written by the Earth itself.

They remind us that the planet is not separate pieces. It is relationship in motion.

🌎 Ways we can support migratory birds from wherever we are:

✨ Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights during migration seasons—around 80% of migratory birds travel at night, and artificial light can disorient them.

🌿 Plant native plants that provide food, shelter, and micro habitat restoration birds rely on during migration.

🪟 Make windows safer with decals or patterned treatments to help prevent collisions.

🚫 Avoid pesticides and herbicides, which move harmfully through the food web.

🐦 Participate in local bird counts or simply begin noticing the birds around you. Attention is the beginning of stewardship.

To care for migratory birds is to care for the living threads that connect the planet. A world where birds can move freely, safely, and abundantly is a world where all communities can thrive.

05/04/2026

The peak of spring is a wondrous time to tend our quality of noticing. To notice the abundance of life, color, motion, wildness, community, relationship. To notice migration moments, river rivulets, hatchlings, and how flowers are abloom, rising from the earth or decorating the edges of branches.

These flowers are the life that proliferates due to the profound depth and breadth of earthly, grounded connection. Beneath the soil, most forests are connected through vast mycorrhizal networks- fungal threads that link roots across species and distance. Through these pathways, trees exchange nutrients, share chemical messages, and, at times, even support one another.

A forest is not a collection of individuals. It is a community in conversation. Resources move where they are needed, a language unbeknownst to us travels in response to change. Their strength is in their circulation, a mobile life force weaving through the roots of each other.

This web is a deep wisdom. One that values continuity over dominance, relationship over control, responsiveness over extraction.

The tallest trees do not rise by severing connection to what surrounds them. They rise because they are rooted within it.

Spring illuminates this network, this unity that begets possibility. How life moves upward and outward, together.

We can learn from the trees. That thriving systems are built not on power held above, but on support moving between. That relationship matters and the future is not grown alone. And that from this place, life creates a foundation for more life. Like squirrels scampering through the forest, bees landing on a dogwood blossom, or a human climbing up a trunk, remembering their miraculous, wise animal body!

05/01/2026

There's a vibrancy, can you feel it? Life is abundant in color and with life itself.

There's a green of springtime that feels uniquely luminous as the sun moves through the leaves. Leaves that offer home to baby birds, shade to squirrels, food to insects.

Streams sparkle and run with water that nourishes elk and that returns to the ocean, meeting the dolphins and whales that swim there.

May 1st marks the halfway point between spring and summer, and in some traditions is celebrated as Beltane. A festival that honors the fire and fertility of life. A turning point in the wheel of the year that not only celebrates the vitality of the planet, but the vitality within ourselves.

This time of year is a potent opportunity to take the loving gaze we turn towards nature and turn it toward ourselves.

We would never ask an owl to be a robin, nor a mouse to be a moose, let us remember our own authenticity as a route to both wholeness and aliveness.

We protect what we connect with. So when we connect with our wholeness, what it feels like to be alive, we will inherently protect these essences wherever we meet them- in wildlife, wild plants, wild rivers, wild mountains.

Today, what beings in nature reflect abundance and aliveness to you? Today, what makes you feel abundant and alive?

Then when you're infused with this belonging, this celebration, let it ripple out into the world around you. Embracing the Earth and all her wild life.

04/26/2026

Deep below the ocean’s rhythmic waves, a sound begins. A different, deeper rumble beneath the surface symphony.

It is low, resonant, layered, rising and falling in patterns that travel for miles. The song of the Humpback Whale weaves together the world within the water. It travels, reaching other whales tens of kilometers away, connecting individuals into something like a vast, unseen network. Or unseen to us at least.

Whale song is not just profound, but it mirrors our own language. With repeating, recognizable phrases, it also evolves. Entire populations can gradually change their songs over time, learning from one another, passing patterns across oceans and generations, creating a marine vocabulary that includes present and posterity!

Scientists believe these songs play a role in communication and courtship, and that they may also help whales orient, connect, and sense one another across vast distances. A community reaching towards one another.

Humpback Whales are not just powerful composers of the oceanic soundscape, but they are immense beings capable of unity. From 40-50 feet long each, they work together to feed! Creating spirals of bubbles, or bubble nets, to gather fish, they coordinate movement and vocalization in a graceful act of collective collaboration.
While all this happens much out of sight, sometimes we receive a gift- a breach. Tens of thousands of pounds lifting fully from the water, crashing back into the surface with a force that echoes through sea and sky. Their grandiosity shattering the waves into a explosion of prisms, as if the ocean herself were exhaling.

To be with whales is to come back to our embodied existence. To be opened to other ways of knowing, beyond data, information, words, or thought.

They, too, teach us about communication. That what we send into the world travels farther than we think, weaving together the momentary molecular structure of everything. That expression evolves when it is shared and that it needs to. They remind us to rise, again and again, beyond what contains us, to take up space, to leap into expression, and to trust that what we offer will ripple outward in ways we may never fully see.

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day to this place we get to call home. Happy Earth Day to all beings winged, rooted, walking, and stones and mountains shaped by time 🌎

Happy Earth Day to each life we are connected to in this stunningly interconnected existence.

To love the Earth is to also remember we are Earth. Mineral and molecule, weather and womb, cosmos and calcium.

Today, what is reminding you that you are nature? Today, what is reminding you that you get the opportunity to participate in this wild life?

Whatever that is- more of that. Life, the Earth, her creatures, and you will thank you for it 🗻

04/20/2026

High above rivers, coastlines, and forests, an eagle rides the thermals. A powerful presence, soaring with a 5 to 8 foot wingspan, and a distinct plumage consisting of a striking contrast between their white head and brown body 🦅

With eyesight that is among the sharpest in the animal kingdom, they can spot prey from great distances. They are both powerful hunters and skilled opportunists, feeding on fish, waterfowl, and carrion, embracing a sacred role in both predation within and decomposition of ecosystems.

Often seen near water, their presence not only feels powerful, but often signals something essential: abundance. In winter, large numbers of eagles may gather where fish are concentrated, creating seasonal hotspots of activity. Using their large, strong talons, they skim the surface of the water, grasping fish just beneath the surface!

When waterways are healthy, when fish populations are strong, when habitats remain intact, eagles thrive. When eagles thrive, so does the balance of the sacred cycle of life!

04/18/2026

A rustle just beyond the trail or a gentle splash in water invites you to look at the life around you. There, in powerful grace, is the largest member of the deer family- a moose! 🫎 Standing seven feet tall at the shoulders, weighing about 1,600 pounds, and growing antlers up to 6 feet wide, these magnificent creatures have a resonant presence on the land.

But moose are not only connected to land, these large herbivores are deeply tied to water.

They feed on aquatic vegetation, seeking plants rich in sodium that help balance their diet. In summer, they can often be seen submerged, foraging and diving beneath the surface, closing their nostrils as they dip underwater. These browsing habits of theirs shape both terrestrial and aquatic plant communities, influencing the structure of wetlands and forest edges alike.

Have you had the joy of witnessing a Moose before?

04/12/2026

Along the rugged cliffs of Alaska’s coastline, small, seemingly tuxedo-clad figures gather in bursts of black and, with a touch of bright color.

Puffins arrive each spring to nest in dense colonies, returning to the same cliffside burrows year after year. Though somewhat clumsy on land, they are built for both air and sea, using their wings to “fly” underwater and catch small fish like sand lance and herring. Sometimes they can even hold multiple fish crosswise in their bills at once.

Their bright, triangular beaks are especially vivid in breeding season, calling your eyes to beaked beings of dual worlds. Sky and ocean. Earth and water. Cliff and current.

Puffins depend on the richness of marine ecosystems. When fish populations are strong, colonies thrive. When ocean conditions shift, through warming waters or changing currents, their food sources can decline, and entire breeding seasons may falter.

They nest in community, thousands returning to the same crevices and burrows, raising a single chick with remarkable coordination between partners. To observe puffins is to be immersed in memory and liminality. Their adaptations remind us of our own complexity, our own capacity to hold and contain multitudes. Flow and flight, rooted and rising, risk and return.

Puffins can teach us about our own spectrum of being, that we are not of one truth or world, but that we can survive and thrive in our watery, earthy, and airy ways. And in learning to love ourselves in our layers, we can extend more love to all beings that live in an infinity of unique ways, different, mysterious, and curious to us, but no less worthy of a whole life.

As water connects us all, how we care for flowing life in one part of the world, including ourselves, impacts the tides of the other side of the Earth. Person to Puffin, Puffin to Penguin, Penguin to Peony.

04/11/2026

Across open grasslands, golden meadows, a dark shape moves steadily through the wind.

Bison, a roaming, solid force. Earth upon earth. They feel both otherworldly, and molded deeply from soil. Mud and land formed into a wild, gentle wanderer.

North America’s largest land mammal, the Bison, travels in herds, shaping the prairie with every step. Their massive heads sweep side to side as they graze, favoring grasses and allowing a diversity of plants to flourish in their wake. They are ecosystem engineers moving enchantingly and so very earthly.

A bison’s grazing patterns prevent any one species from dominating. Their hooves aerate the soil. Their wallows—shallow depressions where they roll—collect rainwater, creating microhabitats for insects, birds, and plants.

In winter, bison use their strength to plow through snow with their heads, uncovering forage and, in doing so, making food accessible to other species. They move, subtly yet constantly, following the rhythms of grass, water, and season.

To witness bison is to see the magnificent presence of a being who transforms landscapes, how one species, when attuned to their rhythmic relationship with land, sustains and creates opportunity for the many.

How can we be connected to both presence and possibility? Be so deeply rooted that we reach across differences to create benevolence for all beings?

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