Cannon on hike

On a local hiking trail, there is an amazing little grove of madrones, tucked away among a variety of oak trees. I told my friend Heather once that she should check them out, as they seem a great place to allow the emotional floodgates to open. “Of course, they are,” she said. “Madrones have a similar past-life history like redwoods, so they help take your sorrows and transform them.” I don’t know about that. But I’ve been going to the woods for solace since I was a child. Continue reading “In the Company of Trees” »

In light of some really big problems going on in the world now, we are not hearing a lot about deforestation, why we should care, or what we can do. But we can not forget this very big problem is going on as we speak, and that we are losing trees at an astonishing rate. Continue reading “Deforestation: Why Care and What Can We Do?” »