Cherish the Earth

What inspired me to write “The Christmas Redwood, a Forest Parable”?

Janice KirkDecember 1st, 2020|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, Christianity, Christmas|Tags: bull elk, burls, cathedral, Christmas gift, cones, Creator's handiwork, ferns, field sketching, gift, Good News, Jesus of Nazareth, labor of love, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood forest, Redwood National Park, Redwoods, rhododendrons, Save the Redwoods League|

A Christmas Gift The redwood forest is a wondrous place, nearly unbelievable the first time [...]

Nature Notes. Hovenweep NM 1959

Janice KirkJuly 11th, 2020|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: Cajon Mesa, collared lizard, desert camping, Hovenweep NM, I Pray for the Earth, Mesa Verde NP, night sky, nomads, Paleoindians, Square Tower Group, Twin Towers, VW bus|

Cherish the Earth. Going to Holden Part 2. Life at Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: chalet, cherish the earth, community, Creation Care, dish team, disposables, fruits and vegetables, garbology, healthy diet, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, inclusiveness, Lake Chelan, life is short, live sustainably, microcosm, mine remediation, Railroad Creek, re-purpose, recycle, social justice, solidarity, summer garden|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA 1980 Part 2. Life at Holden [...]

Cherish the Earth. Part 1. Going to Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 8th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: copper mine, ELCA, Eucharist, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, Lady of the Lake, Lake Chelan WA, Lucerne, North Cascades, out sketching, Railroad Creek, vespers, village naturalist|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA Part 1. Going to Holden Getting [...]

Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio. Part 2. A private view and more . . .

Janice KirkJanuary 26th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, observation, Painting America the Beautiful, wonder|Tags: Death Valley, earth stewardship, eco-communities, Fourteener peaks, green infrastructure, life networks, lifelines, Pilgrimage, plant communities, Red Rock Country, wholeness of creatioin|

Part 2. Painting my private view and “something more . . .” In my last [...]

Nature Notes. Marmot Springs. Part 2. The Gift of Pure Water

Janice KirkMay 12th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: beaver, cherish the earth, harmony of life, Oregon juncos, pure water, Warner Mountains CA, wilderness|

In my previous Blog, I tell how my family and I found the [...]

Cherish the Earth. Lenten Lament for the Earth

Janice KirkMarch 25th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: deforestation, drought, Fred Bahnson, grief liturgy, invasive animals, invasive vegetation, Lent Lament, life networks, loss of soil, ocean of garbage, poisoned water, pollution, sack cloth and ashes, snowflakes, stand in the gap, suffering of the earth, symmetry, weeping and wailing, white rhino|

In one short space of time I found myself in ecological anger and angst about [...]

Cherish the Earth. Take Time to Behold God’s Wonders

Janice KirkFebruary 24th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: animal kingdom, Behold, beholders, beholding, cherish the earth, earth, green infrastructure, herald, holistic, networks of life, rivers in the desert, watchers, well-being, wilderness|

Behold! A Pasqueflower at Haviland Lake, Colorado How often do we really look [...]

Cherish the Earth. Gratitude.

Janice KirkNovember 18th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: beauty, community, earth stewardship, gratitude, green infrastructure, green pastures, still waters, wonders|

Blue Lake inlet, Warner Mountains CA The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]

Cherish the Earth. Hurray for Green Plants!

Janice KirkSeptember 2nd, 2017|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: birds, chipmunk, deer, eco-community, Great Basin N.P., High desert, Indian Paintbrush, juniper and pinon pine, larkspur, Lodgepole pine forest, Oak Woodland, Plant community, Ponderosa Pine, Riparian, Savannah, scarlet gilia, Tallgrass prairie, Valley sagebrush, wetlands, yarrow, yellow monkey flower|

Green growing plants keep us alive. They are our neighbors, our plant communities. Do you [...]

Cherish the Earth. It’s All About Love

Janice KirkJuly 1st, 2017|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Out Sketching, The Gospel Lifestyle|Tags: aspen, false lupine, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Great Outdoors, inscape, life community, San Juan Mountains, sticky geranium|

I love the Great Outdoors, and it happened on an extended camping trip when [...]

Cherish the Earth. Live the Gospel Lifestyle

Janice KirkMay 20th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, The Gospel Lifestyle|Tags: cherish the earth, community, content, Earth Day, enough, generous, Gospel lifestyle, keep it simple, live lightly, need, St. Francis|

LIVE THE GOSPEL LIFESTYLE Another Earth Day celebration has come and gone, yet the old [...]