Merry Solstice and Happy New Year!

Thank you from Seattle and Good Nature Publishing

Hi from the tree elves at Good Nature. I'm writing this note to say thanks for stopping by this year.

I'm grateful for your attention. And I know how precious our attention is these days.

Let's stop the war on Venezuela, convict and imprison the most treasonous President since Jefferson Davis. Stop kidnapping people and sending them overseas without due process.

Practice the Golden rule and loving one another over the holidays.

Your local food bank, neighbors on the street need more money than my small family. And the great part about helping others is how much it helps me when I do it.

I wish you well as we near the Solstice.

I commissioned fine artist Ram Papish to paint of the Pileated woodpecker in hopes they resonate with you as we work to grow a greener more just world.

My Mom and Dad are dead but not forgotten. They were big birders! My folks and me and my sisters camped in the Adirondack mountains, hiking through the second growth forests to bird watch, to try and find the Pileated woodpecker, look for kingfishers, herons, loons, otters and eagles on Indian Lake.

We lived in tents for a couple weeks, hiked, swam, played with cousins and friends on the water and sang around the camp fire at night. We didn't have much money, but we had a family that cared about each other and our plant and animal cousins. And in that way my Mom and dad are alive and well in fond memories being together outside. I expect that these experiences thick with mosquitoes and black flies, playing capture the flag with cousins, paddling canoes across the lake are part of the reason why I started Good Nature in 1995.

I cherish these memories and hope you create similar ones over the holidays. If we get offline and into the original network of trees, walks in the woods, I am sure everything will be alright in the end. And if it isn't alright, then it isn't the end.

America the beautiful is a dream that we each can play a part in. Right now the corporations are moving to cut down wilderness forests, old growth cut in the name of forest fire thinning, and even abandoning the Endangered Species Act.

If you're like me there are a million things to be concerned about. The best advice I've been given by wiser activists than me is to pick a subject and focus on it, joining groups and helping them build support for what you are about protecting in the natural world.

I've run part of a successful US Senate race in Colorado and two statewide initiatives that became law here in Washington, so feel free to get in touch if you need help figuring out how to contribute. Every little bit of attention helps us grow a stewardship society rooted in care for each other and our plant and animal cousins.

Peace of wildflowers to you and your family. I'm grateful for you stopping by this year.

Timothy Colman, publisher and poster sherpa

PS: I added a Gift Card if you are looking for a gift that let's them pick the art out. Any 3 posters is $50 and free shipping through the new year!