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‘Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America’ visually stuns

Vermont photographer Jim Westphalen’s documentary film made my day.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 46: What trees can teach us

Trees embody the essence of life. They are a force, persevering, adapting, moving onward.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 43: The wheels of time in quarantine

Confined in our homes, we struggle to take in the scope and portent of this moment while trying to maintain as much of normal life as we can.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 40: The storm before the calm

Yet at the present moment, as in the forest, we are learning that all of us live in equipoise between life and death, albeit some with more protections than others.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 37: Is it spring yet?

Yet March brings the cruelty of delayed anticipation, of yearning for signs of new beginnings, of suspension between the end of one thing and the beginning of the next.

I Publius: Dangerous limbs

Put another way, you don’t have to take down the trees, but you do have to make sure that they don’t kill anyone.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 35: Winter intimacies

To read the previous chapters of ‘Illuminating the Hidden Forest,’ click here. During the winter, the forest is spare. We can look through the trees at...

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 31: Summer eyes and winter eyes

But now it is winter. The forest floor is covered with a blanket of snow. The trees are bare. My winter eyes are different from my summer eyes.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 29: Trees and the art of aging

We humans and other creatures of the animal and insect world, it seems, are programmed to decline in age. But is our decline inevitable?

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 27: Found and lost in the woods

When I look around me, I realize that I am surrounded by thicket. The forest is impenetrable, unreadable, and I am lost.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 25: Hibernation

For me, winter in the Berkshires involves quite a bit of curling up on a window seat in my snug den, maybe with a book in hand, my dog lying on my tummy, looking forward to an afternoon nap and an early bedtime.

NATURE’S TURN: Praise, protect, advocate

Works of art and education that stir and strengthen a community’s sense of identity between nature and humanity further environmental sustainability.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 22: Getting ready for winter

Sometimes, meditatively, we follow one or another leaf with our eyes as it circles slowly downward before settling on the ground.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 21: The forest is a nomad

And perhaps that’s one of the problems with civilization. It unrests the soul.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 20: What we see isn’t all there is

If I didn’t observe with my own eyes the two trees solidly arising above, I would perceive the roots as a single organism of braiding parts.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 18: Mother Tree, now and forever

Right there, under scampering Lily and under me, is a world that I can only imagine, a city under a hill, the brain center of a family of trees.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 17: Ghosts

So Lily and I left the tree and went to my favorite spot, a rock beside Yokum Brook where the water tumbles beneath my feet, and I reflect on the various complexities of life.
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