March 10, 2023 snowmageddon!! Just like so many parts of the world, this winter has brought us much unexpected weather. Our snowpack has been as high as it’s been in many years, very few sunny days (we have much more sun most winters) and just as many places have come to experience, so much wind. …
January 9, 2023 Why do we feel such peace in the natural world? Have you ever stopped to think about that? “For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and I am free”. In a previous edition of this newsletter, I quoted Wendell Berry’s poem, The Peace of the Wild Things. That …
December 21, 2022 Greetings to all on this winter Solstice Day 2022. Here in West Yellowstone it’s been snowing and cloudy much of the time so we have not seen some of the celestial events that occur this time of year such as the Geminid meteor shower which typically peaks about a week before today. …
November 24, 2022 Thanksgiving Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin is a mom, member of the Potawatami Nation, and professor of Environmental Science at SUNY college of Forestry in Syracuse, NY. As founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, she and her students collaberate …
IN THIS ISSUE: News from Wild Wind and M.U.S.E.Words to Ponder Greetings from “turn back time” day! Wild Wind and M.U.S.E (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment) have gone through a few changes as we find ways to carry on. For a short time it was rebranded as “Listen to the Earth”, but we found M.U.S.E. …