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Merlin Sheldrake on the magic of shrooms
from Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, And Shape Our Futures The biological identity of most organisms can’t...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 10, 20242 min read


Award winning nature photos
Beautiful photos that are free to see via my .
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 10, 20241 min read


Paul Farmer
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Paul Farmer Train your mind to see we are all...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 8, 20241 min read


The Best Season of Our Lives
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 7, 20241 min read


Looking for first ospreys of spring at Green lake in Seattle
Beautiful early April weather. The osprey family that fishes Green Lake and Lake Washington here in Seattle arrive the first week of...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 7, 20241 min read


Chef Andres is right. Israel targeted his friends. This Israeli war is a test for us. My bet is US policy and technology targeted with AI we developed.
Just watch this monstrous war in the Middle East against humanity. When the war crimes commission finds out it was American targeting...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 6, 20241 min read


Absolut Madness: Stop the wars!
Money, religion, borders, Israelis, Palestinians, Iranians now. (art by Dugald Stermer) Does anyone stop and realize this is all human...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 5, 20241 min read
Sabbath poem by Wendell Berry
How long does it take to make the woods? As long as it takes to make the world. The woods is present as the world is, the presence of all...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 5, 20241 min read


Eyesight by A.R. Ammons
It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I've missed it, it came and went before I got...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 5, 20241 min read


John Muir on the Peace of wild life
First Light-- painting by John C. Pitcher The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people...
Timothy S. Colman
Apr 5, 20241 min read


Rich Roll Plant Talk
Interview with Earthling Ed Winters is startling in how matter of fact about being on the vegan path. I'm a couple months into plant...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 30, 20241 min read
A.R. Ammons
I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I'll wake up and find the lowly nearby, a handy...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Same as it always was...a poem by Adam Zagajewski
Blossoms in spring light @ Green Lake Seattle by Tim Colman We don't know who we are. We are lost in the forest, and the black stars move...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Same as it ever was by Henry Scott Holland
Photo Tim Colman @ Whidbey Island in spring Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you....
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Annie Dillard
The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great rock heart of the earth in...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Rewilding Our World Makes Me Happy
I loved hearing this conversation with Laurie Martin about restoration science helping us grow a society with seven generations in mind....
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 21, 20241 min read


Women in England shave their heads in solidarity with Palestinians
Replace Netanyahoo and the right wingers. We have to fight the right here, there and everywhere.
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 21, 20241 min read


Gary Snyder
Pine tree tops In the blue night frost haze, the sky glows with the moon pine tree tops bend snow-blue, fade into sky, frost, starlight....
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 16, 20241 min read


How do you see the world?
Sunny and 70 this weekend in Seattle. So I'll be mostly outside talking with trees, singing to bees and birds as spring opens up her...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 16, 20241 min read


Jet a poem by Tony Hoagland
Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder as the empty cans drop...
Timothy S. Colman
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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