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For my last prompt at Toads, I wanted to share some positive words from  Joa nna  Macy , deep ecologist and activist, who has devoted her ...

source "The loss of the wolf is like the loss of the mother. Somewhere she roams in memory, in darkness. Our bond with her is i...

The Moors, North Yorkshire source source The Moors, the lowering skies, the ruins of a castle,  the ghosts of times long pa...

Today, my Toadly friends, we are immersing ourselves in the art of Canadian artist Emily Carr, a visionary artist ahead of her time, w...

The noted Canadian writer of poetry and prose, Margaret Atwood, is the award-winning author of forty works, including fiction, poetr...

source I am always moved by poems that celebrate the small, ordinary joys.  Natalie Goldberg is a master at writing about the or...

A wax rubbing of tree rings and a human fingerprint. This astounds me. source Our respiratory system, the bronchial...

Some time back, in 2014, our Toad-friend Hannah Gosselin created an interesting form that I like very much, called the Boomerang Metaphor Fo...

Jakelin Maquin, age seven source: NBC News Just as Talequah the whale  increased awareness of our environmental plight and how it...

At this time of year, our thoughts turn to those we love. It is a time of coming home, of sharing the holidays with those closest ...

A POEM ON HOPE   It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,  for hope must not depend on feeling good  and there’s th...