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World Migratory Bird Day 2026
Little Brown Bats, Swifts, Canada Warblers
The Sun is in Taurus now
Canada Warblers and a few little brown bats return dulcet faces after swifts and swallows in the evening sonar pathways …
Winter 2026
Dearest Mefitis, Squuncke Tiskáy Maká Mephitis mephitis* Every evening at sunset we are grateful for your presence the goddess of liminal spaces and trance inducing vapors you walk past us foraging for hazelnuts, blackberries, insects pause, look at us cautiously wait for the ICE vehicle…
Autumn Equinox 2025
We watch Vaux Swift overhead our home each evening. This Autumn Equinox I wait and watch with the migration of birds, rise of winged ones over the horizon. With astrological aspects of these seasonal changes, I am grateful for writing communities and shared landscapes. Elk…
Spring – Coyote Awareness
The first week of Spring brought Coyote Awareness Week. Coyotes have appeared for me this year as symbolic teachers and pathfinders. I am grateful for daily canine latrans visitations well before first light which continue now as we step into spring. I joined The Coyote…
Winter Solstice
An urgent message from Ruby-crowned Kinglet Faith of olive-green wings
a small red circle on her crown, kwee! kwee! kwee!
an insistent call and tapping
at her studio window as
the kinglet flies from the Western Red Cedar
back and forth from the tree to…
Autumn Solace
Prairie Vespers: when the chokecherries are black moon Red-winged Blackbird, Meadowlark soft prairie songs silence, coyotes listening on the horizon Gwendolyn Morgan, “Prairie Vespers” in Moon Water, An Anthology by Spell Jar Press, edited by M.E. Keyes and Daniel Niv, (2024), p. 138. In…