I left the house at 5.30am, destined for the Gulf beaches. A short 20 minute ride later I was standing at Gulf State Park watching the sun rise over the sugar-white dunes. An hour spent walking this undeveloped beach started my day off in a state of beauty. Clear blue-green water lapping at my feet, [...]
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Beauty Expanding
Posted in Environment, Gulf of Mexico, Nature, SEA TURTLES, OCEAN, gratitude, Nature's teachings, Alabama Coast, consciousness, healing, Compassion, tagged Gulf of Mexico, ENVIRONMENT, Gulf Islands National Seashore, sea turtles, nature, LIGHTWORK, humanity, wildlife, Nature's Teachings on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Prehistoric Paddling Pals
Posted in Alabama Coast, Environment, gratitude, Magnolia River, Nature, Nature's teachings, SUP Boarding, tagged ENVIRONMENT, gratitude, Magnolia River, nature, Nature's Teachings, SUP BOARDING on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why my newest paddling companions are gars. Lots of them. Every time I take my SUP board on the river I find gars surface near my board, grab a mouthful of air and quickly sink back to the dark depths of the water. I’m left going something like…”That was close,” or “GOOD [...]
What’s Down is Up….or What My Mind Thinks of When SUP Boarding
Posted in Alabama Coast, Environment, Nature, Nature's teachings, SUP Boarding, tagged ENVIRONMENT, nature, Nature's Teachings, SUP BOARDING on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I gaze down into clouds, puffy and white, against a grayish blue sky. As I glide along, a rope stretches from the surface into the depths and I wonder if I climb down where I would find myself when I got to the end. Suddenly a splash interrupts my reverie and the water’s surface ripples, [...]
Dance of Beauty
Posted in Environment, gratitude, Nature, Nature's teachings, spring equinox, wild turkeys, wildlife, tagged ENVIRONMENT, nature, Nature's Teachings, spring equinox, wild turkeys, wildlife on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I stood transfixed listening to wild turkeys vocalizing across the creek. The distinct and loud gobble of a male followed by the yelp of a female. For days as I walked the Mountain, I have heard the calls, have seen a dozen hens roosting in the huge, white pines overhanging the small creek. Today I [...]
Passion to Proceed
Posted in Uncategorized, Gulf Oil Spill, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, humanity, Nature, Gulf Coast Seafood, OCEAN, gratitude, Nature's teachings, Weeks Bay, Estuary, Alabama Coast, tagged ENVIRONMENT, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Nature's Teachings, OCEAN, sea turtles on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am sitting at the counter at my mom’s kitchen gazing out at Mobile Bay. Just a pause before writing. I’m presenting a program at Gulf Shores Library tomorrow morning and was reviewing my A/V presentations to see which one I’ll use. In reviewing my library of programs one I put together showing the worst [...]
In Ways I Can’t Explain*
Posted in Alabama Coast, Cornwall, Devon, England, Environment, Lightwork, Nature, Nature's teachings, Uncategorized, tagged ancestral link, blue ridge mountains, david wilcox, devon england, new kent county, western england on January 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A few years ago I stood on this hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and felt my bones vibrate with resonance of the land. For the first time in my life, I felt I belonged in a way I’ve never belonged to any other place on the planet. I was in Devon, England. Later that week, [...]
The Abundant Universe
Posted in gratitude, humanity, Nature, Nature's teachings, Uncategorized, tagged ENVIRONMENT, Nature's Teachings on January 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
When I stop and look around me I see outrageous evidence of abundance. Sunsets, sunrises, rolling waves, white sandy beaches, tree-covered mountains all point to unlimited, unbounded, endless good stuff happening all the time. No matter what issues circulate in the sphere of my life, the lives of friends, communities, ecosystems….balanced with those challenges, as [...]
Parting the Veil–Thoughts from New Year’s Eve
Posted in Environment, Estuary, Nature, Nature's teachings, SUP Boarding, Weeks Bay, tagged Estuary, nature, Nature's Teachings, SUP BOARDING, Weeks Bay on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As I paddled through thick, gray-white mist across the mouth of Weeks Bay, the silence was broken by a loon that surfaced nearby. The haunting cry bounced off the wall of fog and wrapped around me like a voice from another realm. I felt peaceful and quiet, encapsulated by a small radius of open water [...]
Wisdom of the Wild
Posted in Environment, gratitude, Nature, Nature's teachings, SUP Boarding, Uncategorized, tagged ENVIRONMENT, gratitude, nature, Nature's Teachings on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My first morning back on the Gulf Coast found me paddling my SUP board from Mobile Bay into Weeks Bay. Since it was a chilly 51 degrees, there was nobody else on the water in boats or other watercraft. It was just the bay, the sky, multitudes of shorebirds and me. As I paddled through [...]
Teachings from a Christmas Tree
Posted in Christmas Trees, Environment, gratitude, Lightwork, Nature, Nature's teachings, Uncategorized, tagged Christmas Trees, ENVIRONMENT, humanity, LIGHTWORK, nature, Nature's Teachings on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first thing I remember is swirling stars and crisp autumn nights. In human years I know not how long ago I was planted on the mountainside. I remember waking up in the chilly air and realizing the magnificent forest of my brothers and sisters around me covering the hills. I felt my friends being [...]
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