sky lake earth: October 2017

Bill Plotkin - Nature and Soul

“A genuine elder possesses a good deal of wildness, perhaps more than any adult, adolescent or child. Our human wildness is our spontaneity, our untamed vitality, our innocent presence, our resistance to oppression, and our rule-transcending vivacity and self-reliance that social convention can never contain. We are designed to grow deeper into that wildness as we mature, not to recede from it. When we live soulcentrically, immersed in a lifelong dance with the mysteries of nature and psyche, our wildness flourishes. A wild elderhood is not a cantankerous old age or a devil-may-care attitude, nor is it stubbornness or dreamy detachment. Rather, the wildness of elderhood is a spunky exuberance in unmediated, ecstatic communion with the great mysteries of life—the birds, fishes, tress, mammals, the stars and galaxies, and the dream of the Earth” ~Bill Plotkin

Monday, October 23, 2017

One week till Nanowrimo...

Getting this blog up and running in anticipation of Nanowrimo, also known as National Novel Writing Month beginning a week from now. I have set a goal of writing 50,000 words or one blog post per day in order to jump start my desire to write about nature and spirit in northern Michigan.I will be visiting a lot of natural areas and doing research, along with capturing my feelings, as I enjoy the beauty found all around me.