"Horticultural fine art!" Sunset Magazine Order any 3 posters for $15 off ea poster and Free Shipping! Going back to school to learn about the great PNW forests? Selling beautiful art in your bookstore, nursery or camp? Do you need a great green gift that helps people connect to our plant and animal cousins? Good Nature poster field guides are great gifts for volunteers and ordered by the thousand from US Forest Service, state Project Learning Tree in 20 states, conservatio

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Only 34 countries in the world (out of 195) legally define domestic animals as sentient beings. This makes it an extraordinary act of forward thinking for any body of government to recognize trees as sentient, conferring on them individual legal rights. That’s exactly what the city council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a small municipality Quebec did on June 9th of this year. Read the rest of this beautiful selfless determination story here

Treemendous! Seattle can do this, every city should. We have to stop burning fossil fuels, zero out eating animal corpses and learn to restore our ecosystems. We can do it and create a wonderful future. Hey Mayor Wilson and Seattle Greens, What if the best cooling technology in a city isn't a machine? by Yoann Berno It's a tree. 🌳 Medellín, Colombia, offers a powerful example of what happens when cities treat nature as infrastructure. Through its Green Corridors initiativ

Sonnet Afternoon sun on her back, calm irregular slap of water against a dock. Thin pines clamber over the hill’s top nothing to remember, Only the same lake that keeps making the same sounds under her cheek and flashing the same color. No one to say her name, no need, no one to praise her, only the lake’s voice—over and over, to keep it before her. –Robert Pinsky from The Want Bone (1990)

Pay attention to this passage in italics as daily practice training your mind to become happy, content. The work is simple and difficult. Excerpt from Essential Spirituality by Roger Walsh

Meditation slogans from Atisa Written over 1000 years ago, they still resonate. I love the last one the most.

Thanks Kristi!

Haven't you had enough of women not being believed? New Hampshire Senate candidate Karishma Manzur lays out how Netanyahu and Trump's war on Iran has helped distract attention on the Epstein Files — and how Trump's stock portfolio has exploded as everyone else suffers. She also calls out Netanyahu's ambition for "Greater Israel." Watch the full conversation here.

Farmer's market photograph by TS Colman RIP Wendell Berry who was a part of my activist spiritual family. We never met, but his words and way of life are inspirational.

This Jonathon Pickett NYT video story caught my attention on the 14th for excellent focus on the inferno called Arizona in our climate crisis. Good practice writing succinctly, and I like weaving in some of my favorite poets, like Mary Oliver. We have to stop burning oil folks. No one else is going to save us. .

TAKE ACTION—IT TAKES FEWER THAN FIVE MINUTES. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety. The rule protects more than 44 million acres from most new road construction and associated commercial logging. The Forest Service’s own proposal identifies: 18.2 million acres where forest plans allow permanent roads but the Roadless Rule currently prohibits them 11.3 million acres where temporary roads would be more likely 4.

Mary Oliver on thresholds Just a note to ask: Got grief? Who doesn't? Grief is a wonderful form of love. And a lot of the time we ignore this call to deepen into relationship with our own love, or loving another person. What's your experience? I know I can resist allowing grief to touch me. But I've learned over time to become an apprentice to my sorrows. This changes everything. Friend in the neighborhood is slowly losing her husband to ALS. And she asked me a whil

NYT Analysis on US invasion of Iran Letter to Editor NYT 8/9/2026

Prayer poems are secular psalms that I keep rereading over the days of my life. Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Ursula Le Guin, Maya Angelou, Victoria Chang, W.S. Merwin, Raymond Chandler, A.R. Ammons... I love Wendell Berry for 50 years now. Kristi and I read vows to each other at our wedding out of Wendell's The Country of Marriage. "I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you as

Photo credit Jordan Dowell A good friend went to Glacier National Park and saw the NW Conifers doing a TREEMENDOUS job. I like how the park interp has highlighted conifers in the park in pink How about you? If you live in the PNW, buy a NW Conifers or other art from Good Nature for your local park. It doesn't have to be one of the wildest parks in North America! Wallace Falls State Park has the NW Conifers and Old Growth Forest posters on display out past Monroe WA. Moran