New-autumn friends:

With relaxed gaze we imbibed the watercolor pond through drifting fog under gray-flannel sky, releasing our softened energies to the looping raptors and green darner dragonflies (straggling their annual migration) and with them we were carried over the waters until we caught up with ourselves in canoes. We sat in silence to receive the blessing of this pond, this day, this place. 

This…

We invite you to take the tonic of the new-moon Equinox and the freshly-come Autumn. Taste and savor each day as a creature of the wild and spinning Earth wherever you find yourself.

Drink deeply. 

— Jack Phillips with The Naturalist School

_{Photo: TNS members drinking the wild silences of Iowa’s Loess Hills.}