Tag: nature

Vital Cycles

In my interview with Lydia Neilsen and Anne Freiwald, we discuss their permaculture organization, Vital Cycles. In addition to teaching programs to certify folks in permaculture, Vital Cycles, as these two wonderful ecologically savvy women will describe, is about making meaningful connections to the earth.  I met with these two in Anne’s garden to discuss…
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Alice D Nature As Muse

Nature As Muse

In “Nature As Muse” on “The Positive Fantastic” podcast, I discuss with musical guest Alice Dimicele about her lifetime of letting song have its way with her. She shares about her singer-songwriter journey and the many albums she’s released along the way. With Nature as her muse, several of Alice’s original songs are featured in…
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Foxy

Foxy

This morning I got to look three little foxy kits in the eye. They were crossing from one blackberry thicket to another. The goats & I all paused for their passage. There’s something viscerally satisfying about being in the unexpected company of the wild –these spontaneous meetings are as close to church as I ever…
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Jessy Jane on The Positive Fantastic

Nature is Our Living Classroom

The 16th episode “Nature is Our Living Classroom” of The Positive Fantastic podcast features the subject of outdoor education.  As Covid closed schools throughout much of California and in other parts of the country, a desire for outdoor classrooms has been sparked like never before in our collective imagination. I really believe that nothing could…
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