The Service of Life
E.O. Wilson in his highly personal book, Biophilia, highlights his personal response to nature and strongly urges humans to care for...
Companions
Everywhere I go these days, Huckleberry goes too. I use to think of him as my pet, implying ownership. Search for the meaning of the word...
Fog Day
Wild. Wander. Wilderness. Nomad. Traverse. Trail. I have no idea what I need to write but apparently we write to find out what we think....
Rewilding
The word "rewilding" has been making its way into our consciousness for a few years now. I imagine it's because we humans are feeling...
Wandering
“It’s a dangerous business going out of your door,” he [Bilbo Baggins] used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your...
Metamorphosis
As a biological creature, I have the capacity to undergo metamorphosis: i.e. to let an old identity die and to transform into what now...
Relationships
It feels a little shameful to admit but today was the first time I finally clued in that ecology was about the relationships of organisms...
Self Last?
This is a big one, seemingly for many humans wandering the earth today. One of the interesting things that I’m looking at is the myth...
Hibernation
Several years ago, the proverbial “all hell broke loose” experience happened to me. My second marriage, an established career,...
Deep Roots
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached...
Change
I can’t say how or why I became absorbed in learning about ecopsychology. I’m neither a psychologist nor ecologist, by profession. Yet,...
Breath, spirit and life
The god is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, a rescuing element grows as well. Friedrich Holderlin In its emergence,...
A more diverse psychology
As I understand it, psychology in its ‘usual’ clothing, is about focusing on an individual and their inner world. It consists of a...