For this episode of “The Positive Fantastic” Podcast about the California Naturalist program, I joined two amazing women to discuss a course that I completed this year about California’s natural environment. The California Naturalist program scratched a lot of my nerdy itches, and I think it might scratch some of yours too. Using an interdisciplinary…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
Recent Comments