"Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now." The Golden Eternity, by Jack Kerouac share.google/kHzNN6IZ7qhy...

"p.s. Mother says I should retain a lawyer lest I be given unlawful orders, which Private Johnson (the one who defected to the Mossy Maidens Ultimate Frisbee team earlier) says we were following all along. Can you compose a missive to Cousin Isaiah to ask whether he would oblige?"

What is your favorite sound-scape?

"Whether Banksy...through its partial erasure, more indelibly inscribed in cultural consciousness, remains to be seen. Sometimes what isn't there is more enduring and more powerful than what is.

"The Understory KNKX Environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp interviews five local authors about the admiration and curiosity they have for their subjects: the trees all around us."

forest path, halved by sunlight light, dog ears listening nearly equinox, upper northwest

BEAR GULCH FIRE IMMIGRATION ARRESTS "The alarm is sounding, not just about fire, but about federal overreach. Let us respond with clarity, courage, and a firm commitment to protect those who protect us." Commissioner Wayne Fournier

"If we look outside of the dominant ideas of what the future will bring, we’ll find bright ideas and nascent social infrastructures, cultivated by proactive groups of people who are demonstrating what could be possible. This has created the future before, and it can again. "

What were his words? vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_ex...

True story!

She never could resist a winding road. youtu.be/iACI0RonrWE?...

Grandiloquent Word of the Day: Corrade (Ko•RAYD) Verb: -To scrape together; to gather together from various sources. **also** -To crumble away through abrasion. gwotd.com

“Walking takes longer...Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.” - Edward Abbey

“We're all trying to fit in in different places, that’s the universal theme,”

"There’s already a lot of focus on connecting children with nature but I prefer to say – don’t disconnect them. A newborn child is much the same as a child born in 1800. Children are fascinated by the natural world. It’s maintaining that through their childhood and schooling that’s essential..."

"Modern animal control officers must be part social worker, part law enforcement officer, bringing diplomacy to often tense or even dangerous situations."

“When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions.” - Kathleen Dean Moore (from Earth's Wild Music)

"Our hearts are big enough to hold ours and theirs. And truly, the space between the two is a narrow bridge. It isn’t vast at all."

"On January 10, 1774, Concord took up an article in town meeting to write a response to a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence that warned about the evils of the new Tea Act and the need to resist “in a most zealous and determined manner...” www.nps.gov/mima/catalys...

Compassion can create change. Give it a try today. "Lori Weise is a longtime activist affectionately known as the “Dog Lady.” As the founder of a downtown Los Angeles dog rescue, she's dedicated to helping the unhoused stay united with their pets."

"Roughly translated, menuchah is peaceful tranquility; the opposite is turmoil or tension. While “shalom” connotes the absence of conflict, menuchah is bound up with a pleasurable peace, a fulfillment deriving directly from an appreciation of how things mesh." tjpnews.com/on-shabbat-m...

“We didn’t want to take anything out. All we wanted to do was add in,”

Image: Cat Lambert quakeandquiver.com/2017/06/19/mushroomed/

“ We can’t adopt our way out,” she said, as the earsplitting sound of barking seemed to echo off the walls. “I mean, unless we did a thousand adoptions this weekend, but that’s pretty unrealistic. So what is it that we can do? I don’t know. I think everyone’s trying to figure it out.”

"...Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it’s a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn’t destroy its world."

Some of us make our prayers with our feet.

"We don’t have a magic wand. We don’t have a metal detector. So anything that dogs can do to improve this finding of the odor is only going to be helpful.”

"non-profit groups, many of them interreligious, led the charge. Burkholder writes that “Religious leaders, educators, and politicians stressed tolerance as a central tenet of democracy." They provided prejudice-fighting materials to schools, from teachers’ manuals to comic books to textbooks."

"What are some of your favorites? ...Or ones like Redwoods (“trees and coast are mostly it”), where the description they offer isn’t technically wrong, but it’s the most reductive, dismissive way you could ever describe a place that’s so incredible"

"What everyone shared was a commitment to the process – to learn from the experts who were there to introduce the topics, to deliberate and discuss carefully and thoughtfully – and a desire to contribute and influence the process."

"Here is the garden, a space for building community, historical education, and memory. The history that we do is not driven by a formal research plan but by the interests of the neighborhood."

“I think that kind of collaboration is really important when you're talking about preserving these historical breeds that have a lot of value to the people who’ve lived with them for so long.”

When trying to reduce the damage from fireworks and other practices that harm the environment, “you’re not going to make any friends by saying, ‘What you enjoy is bad; stop doing it,’” Dr. Bateman said. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/c...

The road ahead...

A boot may crush a lily, but lilies will remain long after that boot is worn to dust. Boots neither sprout nor root. We may be trampled by sorrows, but we are more lily than boot and nature waits and whispers, “grow and thrive again.”

"Before the Fire Had a Name I had figs in my fists and salt in my braid. Before borders cut the sky, I knew only the hills. We baked bread at dawn, feet planted in the soil as if we were trees, not women. They said I was stubborn. I said I was staying."

"I pledge allegiance..."

"Change also comes on the organizational and national levels. If an organization as hidebound to tradition and mission like the National Park Service can change its views of Native Americans, there is hope for the benefit of all future generations to enjoy these special places."

Thank you Jarod Anderson; you are one if my heroes. www.jarodkanderson.com

We're feeling mighty fine, escaping the madness of the 4th, north of the border! How are you all doing?

*deep sigh of relief* Thank you all of you who spoke about and out in defense of our wilderness!

Tiny Beauty Everywhere