I’m okay to let a lot of places remain unseen, not because I’m too lame to get off my couch, but because we have to be choosy about where our time, our money, our attention, our share of the planet’s resources is spent. We each need to decide how we can best participate on this earth, how we define a life well-spent, and how to recognize what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls “enoughness”.

Here's a strange little confession – or more of a quirky observation, really: Many of my most intimate encounters with nature happen when I'm tucked behind some shrub, drawers down, having a (for lack of a more elegant word) pee. And it's not that there are grasses brushing or bugs biting my bum. It's that, for however brief a time (thirty seconds, maybe?), I am still. I am still and I see what is right in front of me: minuscule lichen and fungi colonizing a log in apricot an

As per Maslow's hierarchy, we're all aware that food and shelter are fundamental needs. But it's easy to forget...