Rusty Ring

Zen monastery. Wait for it. (Photo of Rinsaiji courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)

(Achlys triphylla.)

I learned this meditation from AJ Smith of Restoration Church, an urban Evangelical congregation in Philadelphia featured on Gimlet...

(Excepting humans, vandalism is rare on this planet. Which is why I find beavers fascinating. The animal that felled this tree wasn...

"Most good poetry is written by people whose fathers told them to shut up." Nelson Bentley (Photo of Matsu...

(Camas [Camassia quamash] is the clarion of spring where I grew up. Back in the day it covered hundreds of miles of open prairie, and...

I normally turn to one of several online public-domain graphics services to illustrate these posts. But figure this: on most or all of...