We are made of water, at least mostly so. Without a stream nearby, I would dry up and turn to […]


We are made of water, at least mostly so. Without a stream nearby, I would dry up and turn to […]

I don’t write much poetry any more, and I never liked rhyming much, but here’s something in honor of the […]

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.