Articles I’ve written for the Spiritual Naturalist Society
 What Roadside Flowers Teach Us About Waiting | published 7/9/26 A stretch of roadside coreopsis, some at peak bloom and some already fading, offers an honest picture of how time actually moves through a life. |
 Spirituality of Place: Belonging to the Land | published 5/14/26 Reading Braiding Sweetgrass brought back childhood walks in the woods and along the creek, and how much I had learned about the land before I knew I was learning it. |
 Practical Exercises for Meditating in Small Pockets of Time | published 3/23/26 Even a full calendar leaves small gaps. Brief micro-meditations can be woven into waiting rooms, errands, and the spaces between commitments. |
 Beyond Self-Help: How A Spiritual Practice Transcends Wellness Culture | published 1/8/26 I started meditating for all the wrong reasons. Wellness culture offers calm as a productivity tool, but a spiritual practice asks for something deeper. |
 Redefining Meditation Success When Life Disrupts Our Routines | published 11/13/25 When caregiving and appointments crowd out a steady practice, it helps to rethink what a successful meditation actually looks like. |
 How Aging Reorients Spirituality Toward Lived Experience | published 9/11/25 As we age, spirituality often shifts away from external doctrine toward meaning grounded in memory, relationships, and lived experience. |
 Cultivating Awe and Wonder in Everyday Life | published 5/22/25 In a time of climate anxiety and information overload, it is easy to slip into numbness. Awe and wonder are worth cultivating, especially in difficult times. |
 Creating Seasonal Celebrations | published 3/13/25 Noticing the turn of the seasons, and marking it with small celebrations, is a simple way to stay connected to the natural year. |
 The Timeless Art of Teaching Through Tales: Moral Lessons in Literature | published 1/9/25 Most of us met life’s big lessons first through stories rather than lectures, from the tortoise and the hare to the tales a teacher shared. |
 Unlock the Magic of Mindful Nature Journaling | published 11/14/24 Have you ever stepped outside, taken a deep breath, and just felt better? Mindful nature journaling is a way to deepen that connection. |
 Spiritual Naturalist Practices and Mental Health | published 9/12/24 Stress, anxiety, and depression are widespread. Spiritual naturalism offers practices that support mental health through mindful, connected living. |
 Earth’s Wisdom: Learning Life Lessons from the Garden | published 7/11/24 Gardening is often seen as a hobby, but the garden is also a living metaphor. As we nurture seeds, we nourish our own inner growth. |
 The Healing Power of Poetry | published 5/9/24 I never considered myself a poet, but a poetry class opened my eyes to writing that connects the inner and outer worlds. |
 The Difference Between Stillness and Silence in Meditation | published 3/14/24 Have you sought solace in silence only to meet a racing mind? True peace may be something deeper than the absence of noise. |
 Natural Soundscapes and Meditation | published 1/11/24 Meditating outdoors is not as easy as it sounds. Using the sounds of the natural world as a focus takes practice. |
 The Role of Community in the Spiritual Naturalist Society | published 11/9/23 In a world driven by individualism, community still matters, in both its physical and its virtual forms. |
 Finding a Balance Between Individualism and Connectedness in a Social Media World | published 9/14/23 Social media promises connection. A conversation with my granddaughter started me thinking about what being connected really means. |
 Practicing Mindful Walking | published 7/13/23 Being aware of wanting to walk mindfully is not the same as practicing mindfulness. How to turn a daily walk into a practice. |
 Spiritual Journaling | published 5/12/23 Through spiritual journaling, you can work through difficulties and uncover insights about yourself that you never knew existed. |
 Gratitude Journaling | published 3/9/23 Gratitude and being grateful are beneficial to our health. Almost everyone feels a little better immediately when they think of the things they are grateful for. … |
 Mindful Journaling | published 1/12/23 I have been journaling on and off for over thirty years. There are times when I’m in the habit of not only journaling daily but writing multiple pages at a time. … |
 Asking Open Ended Questions to Pursue a Personal Philosophy | published 11/10/22 The book, Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte is about productivity and how we collect and connect information. He goes through a specific methodology … |
 Finding A New Meditation Practice In Nature | published 9/8/22 I find it hard to concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds if I’m not focused on what I am doing at that moment. It’s easy to recognize the feeling of being fully focused … |
 Understanding Forgiveness as Self Care | published 7/14/22. As I get older, I find it easier to learn things by experience than by reading about subjects or listening to someone wise and sage talk about them. It wasn’t always that way, but now concepts tend to … |
 Finding Compassion for Others through Self Compassion and Loving Kindness | published 3/10/22 When we look at what it takes to have compassion for others we must first look at what it means to be a compassionate being. That starts with self-compassion and our own well-being. |
 Writing Wild by Tina Welling – A Book Review | published 10/9/21 These days I am outdoors more often and around people much less often than in previous years. I look inward and read more books. I begin to wonder if I’m losing touch with a part of the world that … |
 Mindfulness and Memory | published 4/8/21 I’ve lived in the same place the last seven years and I now observe specific things as “signs of change”. A slowdown in the daily breeze indicates a forthcoming change … |
 The Emotional Cost of Continual Chaos | published 10/29/20 Living through our current environment of chaos has left me feeling shell-shocked and numb. We are in an election year, and it’s normal to be bombarded by … |
 Walking To Find Wisdom | published 4/30/20 Lately I become distracted often. This tendency has only increased in a world where people read and write in 140 characters or less. I’m old enough to know that living life … |