Category: Social issues

• A Hard Day

  

  A cloudy, damp, deeply chilling day. Heavier rain is forecast for a bit later. A family of starlings have set up housekeeping just outside our dining room windows and fill the house with song in the mornings and in the early evening. Yesterday I noted a fledgling starling on the roof. I woke this morning…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 14, 2025

  Arts, Climate Change, creativity, denial, Grief and Fear, Landscape, Nature, Oceans, Racism, Terror, self care, Social issues, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  Arts, creativity, healing, lies, nature, propoganda, protest, stories, Summer

• Who Are We to Each Other?

  

  Urban forests, social relationships, and challenges to embracing otherness.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 11, 2025

  Arts, creativity, family, gardening, Grief and Fear, Healing, Landscape, Nature, Racism, Terror, self care, Social issues, spirituality, Stories, Summer, Travel

  Arts, environment, family, garden, gardening, healing, nature, Southern Baptist Convention, stories, Summer, sustainability, urban forests

• On May Sarton’s Big Questions

  

  May Sarton asked the big ethical questions many seek to ignore.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 5, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Landscape, Nature, Racism, Terror, Social issues, spirituality, spring, Stories, Summer, writing writers

  Arts, compassion, ethics, faith, May Sarton, nature, philosophy, questions, stories, Summer

• All Things Arise and Fade Away

  

  We awoke to bright sun, instead of the forecast dense cloud. The birds have been oddly quiet after being rowdy yesterday. As we watched, a starling stuck its head into the sparrows’ bird house, perhaps after chicks or eggs, then flew away. Now the sparrows are chirping loudly. This morning I sat down in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 28, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Cycles, denial, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  chance, change, evolution, natural systems, nature, Sound Art, writing