Category: self care

• Early Summer Morning

  

  An appreciation of readers.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 18, 2025

  Arts, creativity, gardening, gratitude, Grief and Fear, Healing, Nature, poetry, self care, Sound Art, Sound Art, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  Arts, gratitude, healing, nature, Readers, Sound Art, stories, Summer

• 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 Not Throwing Stones

  

  Thinking about Jesus’ dictum that we not throw stones.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 16, 2025

  Healing, Landscape, Nature, Psychotherapy, self care, Shamanism, spirituality, spring, Stories, Teaching

  anger, healing, Jesus, judgement, nature, Shamanism, springtime, stories, throwing stones