Words of consolation from John Muir’s journals: “The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang–home-going. So the snow-flowers go […]
Tag Archive for ‘nature’
Two New Books
Happy to announce the publication of two more books this week: One Nature Indivisible: Explorations in Freethought Eye to Eye: […]
Secular Ganesh
Freethinkers can sometimes assume the role of Son of God (or Daughter, Child of God). . .at least as Hindus […]
How Can You Not Believe?
Taking this series of images of a dragonfly we hit with our car, I was awestruck by the amazing, intricate […]
Bubbles
Ideas are a lot like bubbles. Beliefs too? How about human societies? I have an endless fascination with these flowing […]
Dammed Rivers, Damned Minds
A believing friend of mine shared this video about a river near where we lived in our youth. A dam […]
Bear-able Beauty
She slowly moseyed out of the forest, across the road and over the lawn to lay down in the shade […]
More Wonders
Another amazing neighbor building their house on ours. . .
Visitors
Some are expected, others not. This dappled moth came by to hang out this morning.
Intersections
New Sprout for Spring! 46 short reflective essays: 1-Freethinking on Faith, Feathers & Flocks 2-Mountains to Sea, Crossing Lines 3-Jesus […]
Memorial for a Tree
For many years, Samuel Taylor State Park in Marin County, California was a sanctuary for me. Beautiful saunters through fern […]
Ise Jingu
This coming weekend my “Highland Views” column highlights the fascinating Ise Jingu temple in Japan. Built with wooden dowels instead […]
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