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Dry season in the cloud forest//We headed up out of the heat of Valles Centrales for a few days to make distance in the ...
05/13/2026

Dry season in the cloud forest//
We headed up out of the heat of Valles Centrales for a few days to make distance in the Sierra Norte. This land as the elevations below complex with Colonial legacies and that were integrated into the resilience of Zapotec traditions. More on this to come.
Pushing back into the townships that have both succumbed fought off waves of mining operations there is a reclamation at play.
Many different Oak, Laurel and Madroño species serve as architecture for bromeliads, mosses and Lichens that offer their own beings to other life forms that feed, nest, and skirmish among them.

05/12/2026

Spring in the midatlantic is a special window. Spring Ephemerals feeding the first pollinators, early hatches fattening up the trout, teaching the littles how to fish and know how the life-force energies circulate in the lands around them.

Some rivers running high and some rivers running low. Nothing is a fixed point despite our desires and efforts to make t...
05/06/2026

Some rivers running high and some rivers running low.
Nothing is a fixed point despite our desires and efforts to make them so, everything ephemeral, everything is a rental.
And so I lean on old rituals that have survived millennia of transformation, holding them in ways that allow for emergence. What I know is that I don’t know much, but I do know that the world deserves our best efforts and attention.

05/05/2026

While on a 2-day solo retreat in the Sierra Sur, I had this kind fellow keep coming to spend time with me. We became companions for the day — he seemed to like sitting atop my head, perhaps for the warmth or the sense of security.
My son is 7, and by natural law he thinks quite a bit about dragons. This one was particularly dragon-like.
He was calm, never jumpy or quick-moving — thoughtful, and seemingly enjoyed chin scratches and a little percussion. Because I had no signal in the mountains, I couldn’t ID him until I returned home. Locally he’s known as El dragoncito de la Sierra Madre Oriental Sur (Abronia graminea), and likes to live among bromeliads. Due to deforestation and climate change that affects these high altitude cloud forests, it turns out my new friend — who I named Shamash — is quite endangered.
I’m grateful he considered me a friend. My son was disappointed I couldn’t bring Dragoncito home, but I feel certain we’ll find a way to visit again.

04/25/2026

Because they remind us that life is both resilient and precious, and that everything is a temporary gift.

I always find myself equivocating whether more digital noise is a way to celebrate this earth anymore…. I do believe how...
04/22/2026

I always find myself equivocating whether more digital noise is a way to celebrate this earth anymore….
I do believe however that wonder and love is our most tender and transcendent teacher. That somewhere along the line, with those gifts, we may feel safety and sense of enough so that we might feel our needs fully met.
I have come to feel over the years that my work as a storyteller is just an offering of love for this land its creatures, we humans among them. So here are images of people loving this world, feeling those feelings. Happy earth day lovers.

At the end of its life, anywhere between 10-30 years of terrestrial confinement, the agave sends up a “death bloom”. The...
03/20/2026

At the end of its life, anywhere between 10-30 years of terrestrial confinement, the agave sends up a “death bloom”.
The notion that its final act is a skyward flowering. It strikes me that this summation of its striving, energy and lifeforce is a penultimate act of intimacy and beauty.

A final testimony and benediction to all it gathered from the sun, sky, and soil and transmuted into vascular form.

In this effort, there pollen for bees and bats, resting spots for birds, and perhaps if all goes well and to plan, an eventual collapse of its seed- bearing structure for the next generation.

Mentor and friend Stephen Jenkinson says that “elderhood is an act of diminishment” meaning that it isn’t about becoming more, or some elevation in title or status, but an act of giving away all that you have gathered.

I can imagine in a world that compels us always to seek more, many of us might rightly struggle to know when it has become time to give away the allotment we have been graced with.

03/20/2026

Birds I’ve Watched Lately
//Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) in a Guayacán (Tabebuia chrysantha/chrysotricha)
//Terns and Seagulls bombing a bait ball on the pacific coast
//A Female Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) that I found on our porch
//Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) and Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) Riding thermals near Monte Alban
//Pigeons and Planes

Every day she gives us flowers
03/11/2026

Every day she gives us flowers

02/18/2026

Pacifico 🇲🇽

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