Nature

As I've mentioned in the past, I feed the neighborhood crows, and for me, this represents an important spiritual practice. Over time, I've noticed a trend. My crows hate when the neighborhood squirrels start taking peanuts. The crows will sometimes get stuck in a

The crows I've been feeding can now recognize my car. I've suspected this for a about a week after an incident where a crow landed on the bike rack of an SUV in front of me while I was waiting at the stoplight out

Our fundamental, self-enforced separation from the natural world is tantamount to ripping a child from its mother's breast and forcing it to live on Diet Coke. (Dianne Slyvan, The Circle Within)

This morning, I went outside for a bit of meditation/ritual to start the day off. It was before sunrise, and even down in the Tampa area, there was a nice chill in the air, the kind of weather that reminds you that even

For several years now, Allyson and I have made an annual pilgrimage to the beach. Even though we live in Florida, we usually only make it to the beach about once per year. Gainesville is pretty much directly in the middle of the peninsula,

On Earth Day, I leave you all with one of science's great poets and prophets. Substitute the spectre of nuclear war for the humbling reality of global warming, and this rings frightfully true. I will speak for the Earth, Dr. Sagan.