Posted: January 7, 2021
Have you ever felt like you couldn’t sleep? Have images come into your mind that made you feel afraid, threatened or ill at ease for a reason you couldn’t grasp? When things like that happen, even though you might not know why you are ill at ease, that is a time to reach out to
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Category: Blog
Tags: afraid, alert, encouragement, focus, ill at ease, love, meditation, message, repeat message, sleep, support, trees, wisdom
Posted: December 24, 2020
While taking a stroll through your neighborhood, wouldn’t it be fun to give a gift to the trees that grow there? This gift would cost nothing – except for the time it takes to do it. It wouldn’t take any supplies or any physical labor except for the walk itself. What Christmas gift could you
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Tags: appreciation, Christmas gift, happy holidays, Merry Christmas, simple gift, thank you, thoughts, tree
Posted: December 10, 2020
If you wanted to plant trees that would grow well in your community, how would you know what trees to plant? If you found some trees that would grow well in your community, how would you know which ones would grow best in different places? Which would like being along sidewalks and medians? Which would
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Category: Blog
Tags: City of Albuquerque, improve health, medians, New Mexico, plant trees, playgrounds, private yards, project, sidewalks, student, teacher, The Nature Conservancy
Posted: November 25, 2020
I have two spruce trees in my back yard. They stay green all year long and help to make my yard look beautiful. They also supply cooling shade during the hot summer months. I see them every day, especially when I spend time playing with my dog, Peanut, in the back yard. She loves to
Posted: November 12, 2020
It’s amazing what trees can do to improve our health. That’s what a study involving 75 children in two Finnish cities found. The study was briefly reported in the Oct. 23, 2020 issue of The Guardian Weekly. In the study, the play areas of children were changed from gravel yards to mini-forests. Within one month,
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Tags: Finland study, Guardian Weekly, immune system, microbes, mini-forest, play area, trees
Posted: October 28, 2020
I was selling my books at a local store today, something I do twice a week for about an hour each time. When there were no people checking out at the cash register where he was stationed, a new employee came over to talk with me. He wanted to learn more about my books. “Which
Posted: October 15, 2020
Neighborhood leaves gather by a fence This autumn, leaves are falling from trees and blowing all over the place. Some of them are quite beautiful, and many of them have different shapes. Maybe some of them are blowing into your yard. As they fall down and blow near your house, see how many you can
Posted: September 30, 2020
When Katie and Francisco, the characters in If I Were a Tree, What Would I Be?, talk about what they have learned from trees, they discover that trees are really good at staying grounded. That means they focus on what is happening right now. Often, we try to stay focused, but we end up rehashing
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Category: Blog, Uncategorized
Tags: alert, daydream, exercise, Father Sky, focus, grounded, light, Mother Earth, pay attention
Posted: September 17, 2020
In the news these days are stories about huge wind storms, sometimes with lots of flooding, and intense wildfires that are destroying entire communities, including trees. Sometimes trees are uprooted, ending their lives. Even worse, those trees might land on a house, damaging it and sometimes killing people who live there. These kinds of news
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Posted: September 2, 2020
Though we often think of bullies as being mostly found in school settings, they pop up everywhere, even among adults. They can be found in every walk of life. Usually, bullies try to belittle and intimidate others because they have a low opinion of themselves. If they can make someone else feel sad, uncomfortable or
