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Darcy
Northern Michigan, United States
As a native of Michigan, I summered in these parts I now call home. I have been searching for myself and a sense of place for the 35 years I've been gone and little did I know, I just had to return to my roots to find these things. I am a naturalist in training, facilitator of nature based spirituality groups and retreats, writer and wildlife gardener.
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  • nature (78)
  • nature spirituality (57)
  • sustainability/environment (46)
  • friends and family (44)
  • natural learning (33)
  • winter (30)
  • celebrations (22)
  • spring (19)
  • summer (18)
  • community (11)
  • Sense of Place (3)
  • fall (3)
  • Environmental/Sustainability Resources (1)
  • Natural Learning Resources (1)
  • Nature Resources (1)
  • Nature Spirituality Resources (1)
  • Sense of Place Resources (1)

Sense of Place...

Sense of Place...
Click on picture above to be taken to list of resources covering a sense of place

Nature...

Nature...
I feel the natural world holds many lessons on how to live a more authentic and simple life. Spending time in nature allows me to slow down and take notice. Click on image of woodland path above for a list of resources discussing the natural world.

Spirit...

Spirit...
I can feel the spirit of life when walking along a woodland path, more so than when surrounded by the concrete canyons of a city. But the place I feel spirit most is on the edges, perched between the rock towers man has created and the soft beauty nature has designed. For here, I can see all of life. For the spirit of life is in all. For a list of resources discussing spiritual explorations, please click on the picture above.

Earth...

Earth...
Unless I know and love the natural world, I really have no motivation to protect it. Unless I understand that each of my actions ultimately impacts nature, I feel less worried about my actions. It is all connected. Through learning about nature, and spending time in it, I come to understand how important it is to embrace sustainable practices in my life. Click on image of clothes racks above for a list of resources that discuss how to live a more sustainable lifestyle as well as help to conserve the environment.

Community...

Community...
Being in close, meaningful relationships with others has pulled at me since I was a child. Forming community despite frequent moves has been a challenge but I do so through membership in my local UU church and my involvement in nearby homeschooling communities. Friends and family keep me grounded whether they are near or far.

Natural Learning...

Natural Learning...
All of us learn best when we are allowed to decide what we are going to learn and how we are going to go about learning it. Click on picture above for a list of resources that follow this formula.

My History...

My History...
Midwestern wetlands, forests, and fields of meadow spoke to me long ago as a young child. My senses were filled with the sight of tadpoles in the pond, the smell of damp leaves in the woods, and the feel of soft grass underfoot. These experiences imprinted on me a love of the natural world and cemented a bond in place that remains with me today.

My Family

My Family
Mike, Ry, Jim, Ashley & I - Crum Woods

Mike and I

Mike and I

Jim & Ryan at home

Jim

Ryan

Favorite pics of my boys with Dakota

Favorite pics of my boys with Dakota
Dakota helping Ryan with math...

Dakota and Jim at home...

Dakota Bear

Dakota Bear
Our pup questions authority, but shouldn't we all?
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About this Blog

This blog was written during the years I lived in Illinois, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. I have since moved to northern Michigan and can be found blogging at https://skylakeearth.blogspot.com/

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Finding Joy

Saving the world is not about making sacrifices. It is about joy. Finding joy as we reconnect with our spirit, the natural world, the education of our children, the earth in which we grow our food, our sense of place and those in our community. I believe the ecological mess we are in is due to our disconnection from these things, forced on us by the distraction of our busy modern world. Finding a way back takes us on a path of renewal and connection that brings a love for the world and for one another, rewards that go beyond what any consumer good can promise.

Local Spirit

  • UU church Joseph Priestly District
  • The Creative Living Room
  • Temenos Retreat
  • Swarthmore Wellness Center
  • Soul Source Center for Conscience Living
  • Quaker Earthcare Witness Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
  • Pendle Hill

Local Nature

  • Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Bartram's Garden
  • Crum Creek Watershed
  • Crum Woods
  • Delaware Nature Society
  • Greater Philadelphia Gardens
  • John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
  • Longwood Gardens
  • Mt. Cuba Center
  • Okehocking Preserve
  • Penn State Extension, Delaware Co.
  • Ridley Creek State Park
  • Scott Arboretum
  • Tyler Arboretum

Local Earth

  • Delaware River Keeper
  • Farm to City
  • Frack Action
  • Greener Partners
  • Hillside Farm
  • Media Farmer's Market
  • Rodale Institute
  • Transition Town Media

Natural Learning

  • Find an Open Education Center Near You

Local Community

  • Greener Partners
  • Open Education Centers
  • Transition Town Media
  • UU church Joseph Priestly District
  • Valley Forge Audubon Society

Local Sense of Place

  • Delaware River
  • The Geology of Pennsylvania
  • Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia
  • Great Gardens of Philadelphia
  • Birding the Delaware Valley Region
  • Marsh, Meadow, Mountain
  • Discovering a Sense of Place
  • Exploring a Sense of Place
  • Indians in Pensylvania

Local Art

  • Brandywine Museum, Wyeth
  • Community Arts Center
  • Horace Pippen
  • James Audubon Center
  • Old City Arts Association
  • Philadelphia Magic Gardens
  • Wharton Esherick Museum
CURRENT MOON
lunar phases

Sites I visit for inspiration:

  • Active Hope
  • Alliance for Wild Ethics
  • American Dream
  • Animas Institute
  • Applied Ecopsychology
  • Audubon Naturalist Society
  • Bioneers
  • Center for Ecoliteracy
  • Center for Journal Therapy
  • Circle Sanctuary
  • Crystal Springs Earth Learning Center
  • Earth Elders
  • Earth Light
  • Earth Literacy At Home
  • Education Revolution
  • Emerging Earth Community
  • Exploring Sense of Place
  • Gaia Workshops
  • Genesis Farm
  • Grist
  • HopeDance
  • Huffington Post Green
  • Humane Education
  • Inner Landscapes
  • International Community for Ecopsychology
  • International Society for Ecology and Culture
  • Joanna Macy
  • Journal of Organic Psychology
  • Molly Young Brown
  • Naropa University
  • National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
  • New American Dream
  • New York Open Center
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Organic Consumers Association
  • Orion Magazine
  • PA Horticulture Society
  • Penn State Extension Habitat Management
  • Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education
  • Project Laundry List
  • Project Nature Connect
  • Quaker Earthcare Witness
  • Regenerative Design Institute
  • Resurgence
  • School of Lost Borders
  • Simple Living Network
  • Sky Light Paths Publishing
  • Slow Food USA
  • Slow Movement
  • Starhawk's Tangled Web
  • Student Liberation Project
  • Sustainability Leaders Network
  • The Xerces Society
  • Thomas Berry
  • Token Rock
  • Transformative Language Arts Network
  • TreeHugger
  • Turn Toward Life
  • UU Ministry for Earth
  • UU Rowe Center
  • Unitarian Universalist Association
  • Wallace Center Winrock International
  • We Need Each Other
  • Wilderness Awareness School
  • Working With Oneness

Must Reads...

  • Choosing Voluntary Simplicity
    Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek)
    1 year ago

Spirit Blogs

Nature Blogs

  • Native Plant Wildlife Gardening
    育毛薬の即効性と頭皮のこわばり解消が薄毛予防に
    8 years ago

Earth Blogs

Natural Learning Blogs

Sense of Place Blogs

  • Sense of Place - Concord
    Concord Town Bird Walk - An Annual Tradition
    7 years ago

Flower Symbolism

Poppy

The Poppy symbolizes death and rebirth in a very positive fashion. The red color of the petals symbolizes the life force and the fact that it will be renewed from generation to generation. In a reading the Poppy would symbolize regeneration and if the person inquired about is having a difficult time right now, then things are likely to change for the better in a very short space of time.

"The spirit of life is a mysterious force of love and grace, found in nature, community and within ourselves. We are all a part of it, and all exist within an interdependent web of life." -author unknown

"In Nature Spirituality, followers seek a feeling of oneness with other living things, with animals, trees, the ocean, sun, moon, and earth. They recognize forces of nature created our physical bodies and that it's creative abilities and powers are within us. They recognize all nature, including human beings, combine as one collective subconscious that is life affirming. They recognize the earth to be alive and conscious as she is "Mother". We can connect, pray and communicate with her directly using trees, plants, animals, birds, crystals, streams, water, etc. They recognize beings of nature have wisdom that is differently and perhaps even more ancient and wise than human knowledge. They recognize that other life forms are earlier, evolutionary prototypes of the human being. They recognize that this deep eternal wisdom must be learned by all to preserve our planetary environment, Earth Mother."
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Bill Plotkin - Nature and Soul

“A genuine elder possesses a good deal of wildness, perhaps more than any adult, adolescent or child. Our human wildness is our spontaneity, our untamed vitality, our innocent presence, our resistance to oppression, and our rule-transcending vivacity and self-reliance that social convention can never contain. We are designed to grow deeper into that wildness as we mature, not to recede from it. When we live soulcentrically, immersed in a lifelong dance with the mysteries of nature and psyche, our wildness flourishes. A wild elderhood is not a cantankerous old age or a devil-may-care attitude, nor is it stubbornness or dreamy detachment. Rather, the wildness of elderhood is a spunky exuberance in unmediated, ecstatic communion with the great mysteries of life—the birds, fishes, tress, mammals, the stars and galaxies, and the dream of the Earth”

My Other Blog:

The Common Shovel :

What I'm digging up as I research Food Justice, Industrial Food, Community Gardens, Real Food, Farmer's Markets, CSA's, Local Food, Farm to Table, School Food, Slow Food, and Food Banks. I haven't done much if any work on this blog but maybe someday I will get my act together...
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