trees
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🌿🍃 When the Tree Reveals an Empty Skin
Seeing Transformation Where I First Saw Death This morning, while taking Pepper outside, something unexpected caught my eye. The wind stirred the bark of one of our beautiful pecan trees, and I noticed what looked like hundreds of fuzzy caterpillars… Continue reading
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🌿 The Tree in the Midst: Awakening Consciousness in the Garden
Sometimes the deeper meaning of a story doesn’t appear until we slow down and look at the language itself. Recently I found myself doing exactly that with the Genesis garden narrative—sitting with the Hebrew words, tracing their roots, and letting… Continue reading
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🌿 The Tree of Life and the Nervous System
Symbol, Structure, and the Courage to Stay Accurate There’s an image that keeps circulating lately—one that overlays the Tree of Life onto the human brain, often the cerebellum or the nervous system. It’s visually compelling. Familiar. Almost comforting. And yet…… Continue reading
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🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility
Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… Continue reading
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Powers of Nature and Perception
🕯️ The Moon Window & a Storm-Wrought Message There’s a round window in our bedroom that we lovingly call the Moon Window. It’s the only one in the room—an unblinking eye that opens to the land, the trees, and the… Continue reading
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