Posted on July 24, 2020
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I see/hear a lot of debate about wearing masks and whether or not they are worth wearing. I see people sharing posts on social media from randomly named quacks they don’t know, or worse the poster is clearly a fake account but the sharer’s… Continue Reading “To Mask or Not to Mask”
Category: All, Environment, Human Condition, Politics, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, ASAP Science, Cloth Masks, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Evidence for Wearing Masks, Lab Studies on Masks, Mask, Mask or No Mask?, Respirators, Science, Science Vs., Virus Protection
Posted on January 21, 2019
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” ~Gary Snyder Liberation and a Return to the Sacred Buddhism has a long history with the forest. Siddhartha Gautama fled the comforts of the Shakya Kingdom and immersed himself with the lands beyond to… Continue Reading “Liberation and a Return to the Sacred”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Behavioral Health, Environment, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Behavioral Health, Buddhism, Ego, Forest Bathing, Forests, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Mahayana, Mental Health, Nature, Nature Therapy, Pan, Pantheism, Sacred, Self, Siddhartha Gautama, Taoism, Woodlands
Posted on November 12, 2018
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Chasing the Westward Sun: One Week and 3,500 Miles In the summer of 2017 I went on a one-week 3,500 mile road trip through Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota. The road trip had spawned after the death of my mom the year… Continue Reading “Chasing the Westward Sun”
Category: All, Environment, Human ConditionTags: *See All Posts, America, Cattle, Childhood, Choteau Montana, Colorado, Creek, Farm Life, Farmland, Glacier National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Inspiration, Jackson Lake, Life, Memories, Midwest, Montana, Nature, Parachute Colorado, Pinedale Wyoming, Road Trip, Rocky Mountain National Park, Valley, Woods, Wyoming, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park
Posted on March 24, 2018
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Lords of the Wild For millennia human beings have created depictions through art and literature of fabled beings who resided in forests, mountains, and various other aspects of nature. These ranged from male and female beings who looked very human like to those who… Continue Reading “Lords of the Wild”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Environment, GodTags: *See All Posts, Animals, Baruch Spinoza, Cernunnos, Christianity, Earth, Environment, Environmentalism, Existence, Gods of Nature, Green Man, Inspiration, Nature, Nature Worship, Pan, Pantheism, Religion, Space, Spirituality, Sun, Truth
Posted on July 4, 2017
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Respect For Living Things Not every good person makes good choices. I spent my childhood obsessively learning about animals, my family can attest to that. When I borrowed books from the library, the overwhelming odds guaranteed that it was animal related. I knew more… Continue Reading “Respect For Living Things”
Category: All, EnvironmentTags: *See All Posts, Animals, Conservation, Endangered, Environment, Extinct, Inspiration, Nature, Preservation, Protection, Respect, Science
Posted on October 30, 2016
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s film on climate change: Before the Flood “We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world, his inner life molds the… Continue Reading “How Climate Change Affects Our Lives”
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The Ardent Axiom 