🌊✨ See this beautiful turtle mural? 🐢 Something about it describes how my life feels right now. The ladder at the bottom feels like me, trying to climb back onto the wagon I’ve somehow fallen off. I’m trying to find my way back to sharing, writing, and connecting here. 🌈 I know... I've been quiet. 🤫 Truthfully, I’ve experienced loss. Great loss. 💔 Deaths in my family. Deaths in my community. The deaths of living earth beings whose lives touched mine. 🕊️ When I look at the standing bear...

What if forests don't teach us what to be— but how to belong? As Pride Month ends, I've found myself thinking less about human labels and more about forests. The more I read about forests and its effect (or acceptance) of our identities- the more I am amazed to discover what it feels like to belong-- of being who I am. I've been reading Forest Euphoria, a great read on the queerness of nature and it emphasizes that we need diversity to survive in the world. [ID: A book cover with title:...

Lessons from the Monteverde Cloud Forest 💔➡️💚 From Eco-Grief to Earth Hope In my last video post, I shared how I was feeling the pain of seeing the fires and climate changes—that eco-grief. The more we connect with nature, the more empathetic we become… and sometimes that means we feel the loss more deeply. I was sharing that while I was at the airport, on my way to visit the place where I first discovered my love of forests... Costa Rica. I’ve been exploring this precious cloud forest of...