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Blog 87. A Prayer for the Earth: A Thanksgiving for Plants

Janice KirkNovember 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Prayers for the Earth, Prayers, Praises, and Poetry|Tags: beauty, chapparal, cherish the earth, Creation Care, desert, Earth Day, ecosystem, forests, grasslands, green planet, habitats, jungles, life community, peace, plant communities, prayers for the earth, savetheearth, seedlings, tundra, wetlands, wildflowers, wonders|

Then God said, “I give you every seed–bearing plant on the face of the whole [...]

Blog 86. A Prayer for the Earth. Gossamer This Morning

Janice KirkOctober 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: beauty, call to prayer, capturing the light, cedar, Gossamer, let your light shine, masterwork, reaching, season, settling, silk, spider silk, web|

In the same way, let your light shine before others. . . (Matt 5:16 NRSV) [...]

Arts Smart Part 2: What Makes It Work?

Janice KirkSeptember 21st, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: art, artist, Arts Educaton. Art Smart, beauty, brain development, cultural bridges, history, input, Language Arts, literature, meaning, music, musician, output, sensory perception, singer, traditional art forms, writer|

Milton the Mouse learns to love Beethoven and quote John Milton's poetry Milton is a [...]

Want to Make Your Kids Smarter? Give them Art and Music

Janice KirkSeptember 14th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart|Tags: academic discipline, achievement tests, art, art education, beauty, brain function, discipline, expressive outlet, fun, language, music, music education, performance discipline, poetry|

Milton the Mouse loves Beethoven and quotes John Milton. He is a very smart mouse. [...]

Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Agate Beach

Janice KirkDecember 30th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Christmas, Out Sketching|Tags: Agate Beach, beauty, fog bank, monochromatic, Patricks Point State Park|

Agate Beach [...]

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. [...]

Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Part 5. Looking at Landscape Paintings

Janice KirkNovember 11th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: 10x magnifying glass, beauty, biography, geography, metaphor, Prang watercolors, sanctuary, Sumi brushes|

Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada In my four previous Blogs, I discussed [...]

Out Sketching. Giving Thanks on the Rim. Part 3. Thanks Giving

Janice KirkNovember 24th, 2016|Categories: Out Sketching|Tags: beauty, cottontail rabbit, deer, hawk, juncos, thanksgiving, Warner Mountains CA|

I walk back to the truck where the children are already eating their lunch. Don [...]