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A Prayer for Monarch Butterflies
In an article in The New York Times, Lincoln Brower and Homero Aridjis note the winter monarch colonies near Mexico City have shrunk considerably. Between 1993 and 2003, they covered an average of 2…
Nature: The Healing Gift We Ignore
By Emilija Krysén
In a time of both justified and unjustified anxiety-ridden global panic, we often forget that our environment and surroundings can have profound impacts on our mental wellbeing…
A Prayer for the Bees
Discovery.com reports that the United Nations is urging international efforts to save bee colonies which are in serious decline, especially in the industrialized northern hemisphere. Among the reaso…
Be a Mirror
Philosophical Wisdom
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and transcendentalist
Nature Wisdom
The grand show is ete…
Nature: Now Showing on TV
In an article in The New York Times, Diane Ackerman refers to the phenomenon of "nature deficit" in children who spend very little time in the natural world and a lot of time with their technologica…
A Rainy Day at Camp
By Daniel Goetz in the KidSpirit Mysteries of the Universe issue.
It was day ten of my month at Camp Pathfinder. It was day four of my first trip into the wilderness of Algonquin Provincial Park.…
Return to the Body
The first step on a spiritual path today is a return to a sense of one's own body.
— Martha Heyneman
Floral Deception
Artwork by: Arina Stetsiuk, age 14
Written by: Félix Delgado
In the forest of tangled dreams, where shadows whisper secrets unseen,
Prayer for Perishing Trees
A new study in the journal Science reports that some of the largest and oldest trees of the world are dying. There are many causes and among them are the selfish and short-sighted habits of human be…
Simplicity Is Already a Masterpiece
By Yani Li for KidSpirit's Simplicity and Complexity issue.
Let our worries wash away
the nuances of complexity
Like stars fallen from heaven’s seam,
swept into the darkness of a sorcerer’…