Tag: gardening

• Mid-July

  

  Midsummer brings celebration as resistance.

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 20, 2025

  Arts, creativity, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, performance, spectacle, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  Cape Verde, flowers, garden, gardening, healing, parades, stories, Summer, travel

• 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

• Reading Stanley Kunitz

  

  On reading the late essays and poems of Stanley Kunitz.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 14, 2025

  creativity, Cycles, gardening, Healing, Landscape, Nature, self care, spirituality, Stories

  gardening, healing, nature, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Stanley Kunitz, writing

• Spring Rain

  

  A dark, drizzly, chilly early spring day. In spite of the cold, color is returning to the maples and other trees and the magnolia’s buds seem to thicken daily. Lichen on tree trunks have begun to take on more color and the field has a bright green hue between the bare spots. In the garden…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 24, 2025

  Climate Change, Grief and Fear, Landscape, Nature, Sacred Lands, self care, spring, Stories

  child rearing, community, dark times, flowers, garden, gardening, nature, social engagem, spring, stories, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating