Today I borrow part of a poem, author unknown. It was read as part of a eulogy for a wonderful friend of mine who passed
on earlier this month. Carol Eames was the first Education Curator at the Tulsa Zoo. She touched the lives of numerous adults and children alike in her work there, as well as during
her volunteer efforts after her retirement in 2000. She was a compassionate, intelligent, caring woman who stood up for …

The United States has an amazing system of National Parks! These special places offer an opportunity to visit unspoiled nature – to camp, hike,
boat or just enjoy nature’s majesty! I’m a big fan of National Parks – a legacy that was begun by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 with Yellowstone National Park. President Woodrow Wilson
signed the National Park System into being in 1916, and a long legacy of preservation and conservation began.Most individual states also …

Time for more great information on what’s happening now in the skies above and on the earth below, with full-blown spring all around us!

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“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been
traveling is deceptively easy; a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. the other fork of the road – the one “less traveled by” – offers our
last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth.” …

Am I still in Oklahoma? This thought had to have been in the front of my mind the first time I ever made it down to the rugged forested land in the
southeastern corner of Oklahoma, the corner that is close to Texas and to Louisiana as well as Arkansas.

There, in the midst of the Ouachita National Forest and the Kiamichi Mountains, near the McCurtain County Wilderness Area,  lies a magical place on Lake Broken Bow known as Beavers
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Okay. We mostly don’t like them. They have six legs, and overall, they are annoying. But this week, let’s look past all that. Just for a moment,
remember that many insects are beneficial. They pollinate our fruit trees and vegetables. Without them, our food choices would be much less colorful, not to mention that we would have no nuts
or berries. And the other good thing, they mostly eat EACH OTHER! Just one more reason to keep …

This week I selected the topic of ‘Community’ for the meditation. This is a crucial theme in nature but hard for many of us to grasp.How is it
possible that every type of creature is truly needed on this planet, and then we all depend on each other?

There’s a song in The Lion King called “The Circle of Life.” Community is what that song is about. It has to do with connections, it has to do with relationships. …

The flowing water of Sand Creek runs in trickles and torrents, flowing over the bed of limestone rocks in ever descending levels, stopping to swirl
and eddy in the shallows before hurrying along to join in with the next rush of water. Here, in  northeastern Osage County Oklahoma, is a place where time stands still, Osage Hills State
Park.

Native trees like post oak, black willow, hackberry, sassafrass, walnut and pecan line the …

Say the word Bat – what do you think of?

This …

Surprise meditation this week – and no quote to pull you in except that the title is TRUE.

The answer, as you know, is that all of the trees and grasses are putting …