As the sweltering heat of late August has set in across the globe, the living world is looking towards preserving energy and nutrients, already beginning to store up what is needed as we step towards the threshold of autumn. Our Program Director Payton Hoegh reflects this month on a different sort of preservation, preserving as much of the beauty of this season as possible. As Aimee Nezhukumatathil put it in one of this month's Notes from Nature, he's scooping as much as he can into little...

Each month at our Monday Meditations, our community gathers for connection, conversation, and mindful practice that invites us each to deep engagement with sacred spaces in the living world wherever we are. This time is grounded in reflection on the week’s Note from Nature and by short exercises of contemplation and attention. These opportunities to be together as a community, to pause at the start of each month for guided practice has become a beautiful feature of our ongoing exploration of...

This weekend, while snow and ice was blanketing much of the east coast of the US, I was shin-deep in a canyon stream. It was cool, not cold, and rushing in a way I hadn’t seen in ages. The sun filtered through branches still bared in winter’s rest and full canopies coaxed into new life by weeks of rain. The layered contrasts in this scene were not lost on me, and they extended far beyond varied ecological responses and distinct seasonal expressions.