Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ After a warm and pleasant Fall that lingered long past its usual departure, the …
Category: Wheel of the Year
September at Lightspring Glen
Earth Pilgrim report: It is more than a considerable blessing to live on these seven acres tucked into the northwest corner of the Catskill Mountains. With a conscious shift of my focus the too-often thunderous cacophony of the news-of-the-world can be muted to a tolerable rumbling. Here this late Summer's important news is how …
Lush…Mid-Summer’s Abbondanza & Mary Oliver
In the dark and drear of January, it's summer days like this we dream of..... Chalice Pond is a serene mirror of the woods here at Lightspring Glen, a gentle breeze is adding just the coolness needed for the day's low-80s, (with the humidity blessedly comfortable so far ) fair-weather cumulus clouds are sailing their …
Earth and Sky are Dancing – Summer Solstice 2017
And so the year's Wheel has spun us gently from Winter's cold and darkness through Spring's gradually-lengthening days to June, sweet June. The Sun rose in the Solstice skies at 5:24 this morning, though with Richardson Hill to my east it was nearly 7 before its first rays touched the tree tops here at Lightspring …
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April, come she will
When I woke yesterday, the first day of April, it was to light snow falling, the ground, trees, and woods once more arrayed in lacy-white. Here in these Catskill foothills, we've only recently emerged from the remnants of the Blizzard-named-Stella of three weeks ago that paralyzed a good deal of the Mid-Atlantic and New England …
