"Healing humanity's grief in the face of climate change"

Some advice from a wise scientist and activist: http://tinyurl.com/gt7uxvk

more worthwhile reading

Possibly worth reading, for my friends and colleagues who are engaged in hunting and fishing: http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/hunting-fishing-and-environmental-virtue 

wonderful book - 40 years of Gary Snyder's & Wendell Berry's letters

This wonderful collection from Gary Snyder's and Wendell Berry's 40-year friendship is simply a stunning collection of wisdom and insights. Because they lived across the country from one another, visits were relatively few, but these two gifted writers, poets, teachers, and wise cultural figures show their shared concern for the ecological crises we face, their unfolding awareness of current policy and political issues, their deeply-held values - and in many cases, their carefully thought-out differences and disagreements. Through it all, their shared friendship and support of each other shines through.  Very worthwhile!
More at: http://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/distant-neighbors/
and: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/wendell-berry/distant-neighbors/

Up In the Canopy (October)

Up in the canopy, that is where I lift my vision in October.
There's gold up there - and red and orange, of course.
I've been looking up there to be transported, and
to be grounded - at the same time.

the works of Gary Snyder

I highly recommend these writings; they have deeply affected me:

• Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1969)
• Regarding Wave (1969)
• Earth House Hold (1969)
• Turtle Island (1974)
• The Old Ways (1977)
• He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth (1979)
• The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979 (1980)
• Axe Handles (1983)
• Left Out in the Rain (1988)
• The Practice of the Wild (1990)
• No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992)
• Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996)
• The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations (1999)
• The High Sierra of California, with Tom Killion (2002)
• Danger on Peaks (2005)
• Back on the Fire: Essays (2007)
• The Etiquette of Freedom, with Jim Harrison (2010) film by Will Hearst with book edited by Paul Ebenkamp
• Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places, with Julia Martin, Trinity University Press (2014).
• This Present Moment (April 2015)
• Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (May 2015)

August - I Used to Say It Was an Unfavorite

August – I Used to Say it Was An Unfavorite

The flowers are there each evening

Imbibing the water I bring them

My time in the garden (not a gardener) is

(there’s that word) magical
It has rarely rained, thus my need to bring them water.

And the neighborhood birds bring their stories

oh, if only I could really understand them

and, if I stay out there long enough

the fireflies join in

There are so many lessons now

And so few that I yet understand.

Perhaps the flowers, the birds, the fireflies

They are trying to explain

And I am trying to listen.
While I look to the sky.

excellent book

Although it's a few years old, this is turning out to be the best book I've read this year:  http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/books/1116313/ecological_ethics.html

new issue of The Trumpeter is online

A favorite online journal - for those interested in environmental ethics - The Trumpeter - has a new issue (Volume 30, Number 2, 2014) available:
 http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/issue/view/116

a great teaching, from a master teacher

Absolutely wonderful advice from one of the world's great teachers, Pema Chodron:
"Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away." http://www.lionsroar.com/turn-your-thinking-upside-down/#