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An Easter of memory and anticipation

Celebrating Laudate si: checker lily (Fritillaria affinis) King Mountain, Larkspur, California by Betsey Crawford

I was planning to write about transformation for Easter. I’ve been working on a series of essays exploring cosmologist Brian Swimme’s eleven powers of the universe, and what we can learn from these great cosmic energies. So far, I’ve done radiance, centration, and transmutation. Easter and this very welcome spring seemed like the perfect time to explore […]

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Ghosts in the landscape

White flowers: Pacific trillium (Trillium ovatum) Blithedale Canyon, California by Betsey Crawford

When I first thought of the title for this Halloween post, I had fun in mind: white flowers with ghostly or skeletal effects. There are those, like the cotton grass above and the trillium and others below. But the more I thought about white flowers, the more questions I had. How did they become white?

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