December 2022, Nature, Culture Childhood Calendar December is the month where Fall turns into Winter and the natural world is settling into a long, cold winter. Plants are…
I found this story in an amazing collection of stories called The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas, collected and told by Maria Garcia Esperon, illustrated by Amanda Mijangos,…
As Mary Holland points out in her magisterial Naturally Curious, November is at month of increasing “quiescence,” as many plants and trees become dormant, and some animals get ready for…
October 3rd is National Children's Health Day. The Full Hunter's Moon ( or Moon of the Falling Leaves) happens around October 9th. Indigenous Peoples Day, formerly Columbus Day, is acknowledged…
Richard Louv has argued persuasively in Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Principle that children in particular, and modern urban and suburban society in general, suffers from…