Category: Lessons from Nature
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On the Threshold of Something New
My husband, Chris, and I were eating Saturday breakfast on the back porch, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a yellow leaf fall slowly to the ground. “It’s starting — autumn is here!” It was, in fact, still summer, but our long, sunny days were slowly…
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The Wonder of Peace Amid Waves
As published in the 2025 Calla Press Spring Literary Journal: Living in Wonder Moving my dinner around my plate, I let out a soft sigh and met the gaze of my husband sitting across the table. His eyes reflected the same exhaustion and sadness I knew people saw when they…
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What I Love Most About Early Spring
There’s nothing quite as breathtakingly blissful as opening the windows for the first time each spring. Even though patches of snow may still be hiding along the forest’s edge, the warmth and sunshine are too wonderful to keep outside any longer. And with the fresh air of spring, a sense…
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The Night Will Shine Like the Day
Here in Vermont, spring is slowly making it known that she’s on her way, announcing her upcoming arrival with hopping robins and patches of grass where once lay blankets of snow. It’s the time of year when we can simultaneously step in mud and almost slip on the ice in…
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Watercolor Winter – A Poem
Nestled under blankets of soft pink snow sits a handmade home Built with patience, hard work, and love Tucked in tight, a patchwork quilt pulled up to her chin Amid a watercolor winter Purple wisps of cloud drift across the sky Intertwined with glowing ribbons of rose-gold Snow so cold…
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Finding Life in the Winter Forest
Scampering through the snow Up trees and over logs Across the forest floor Into cozy burrows and back out again Making their own paths Weaving between trees Bounding through the stillness In the quiet forest of winter There is movement There is life Even in the cold Even in the…