I suppose I’m the kind of person who enjoys a good mystery. I like watching mysteries (particularly British) but I […]


I suppose I’m the kind of person who enjoys a good mystery. I like watching mysteries (particularly British) but I […]

I was born and raised in Washington … the State of Washington. Since childhood I saw images of George everywhere, […]

Watched these “panpipes” as they were being constructed by “organ pipe” mud-daubber wasps, I assume. The project is being built […]

Today I received a new copy of Huston Smith’s classic, The Illustrated World’s Religions. Must have left my old copy […]

John Muir sauntered into the wilds of my mind and my life, becoming first a “spiritual […]

Re-posted from January. . . What Happened to Secular Chaplain? The Secular Chaplain blog was up for five years and […]

These are my photos from A Freethinker’s Gospel After all, Nature is the best “good news,” isn’t it?

A selection from my essay collection Nature is Enough. Dirty Glaciers (Better than Heaven) “Doubling cape after cape, passing uncounted […]

“Beetles, Beatles and Bugs of Belief” John Lennon once famously quipped that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. People […]

A sauntering loop by Lake James in the Appalachians presented these peaceful images.

Countless varieties of these little things pushing their way up and out. What is hidden will be revealed, perhaps.

Last Sunday, a youthful black bear climbed a walnut tree outside our windows, stretched out and took a long nap […]